If Franck Merelle has the tournament record of padel seniors played in 2021 by an adult with 59, he is preceded by two young people in the overall ranking: Ethann Garry and François Rajnic.
Le padel is a fairly recent discipline in France, more and more young people are addicted to it. We can see this very well when we look at the number of tournaments played by two of them: Ethann Garry and François Rajnic!
Indeed, by combining the youth and senior competitions, these two teenagers participated in a colossal number of tournaments in 2021: 66 for Ethann, and 62 for François !
Tennis license Padel Cap d'Agde, Ethann Garry is therefore the player who holds the record of the greatest number of tournaments played over a season in France. A crazy ratio of 1,27 tournaments per week for the one who points to the 326th place in the senior ranking and who represented France with the U16s in Mexico.
For François, who comes from TC Boujan sur Libron, it is also a very impressive ratio of 1,19 tournaments per week. As a reward, a very nice 257th place in the standings for the one who was a serious candidate for Mexico, with the U18s.
This will surely not have escaped you, these two promising young people are based in Hérault, a region which is one of the most dynamic in terms of padel, with many clubs, used to organizing a lot of tournaments. This allows practitioners to sometimes participate in several competitions on the same weekend.