Building on the sporting, popular and economic success, the organizers, with the support of the Mayor of Toulouse, Mr. Jean-Luc Moudenc, are renewing the French Open of padel September 7-8-9, 2018.

André and Claude, let's come back briefly to the 2017 edition, what lessons for 2018?

First of all, setting up 2 floodlit courts on the Place du Capitole is an essential asset in attracting a large audience, because at the risk of not repeating a major tournament without a large audience!

The high quality of Tarkett's new generation liners allowed for 52 games to be played while we had a wet Saturday ...

Tarkett Fieldturf will be renewed in 2018.

The Sport, Health and Well-Being Village enjoyed record attendance with over 3000 visitors.

Hard meetings, both in mixed doubles and during the matches played in the framework of the European Cup of Clubs.

What are you preparing for 2018?

The next edition of the mixed French open of Padel will be the first after France has been chosen to organize the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, we owe it to ourselves to plan a big evening on Olympism. We are working on it with the Regional Olympic Committee to organize a tournament Padel reserved for selected Olympians and great champions of the greater Occitania region ...

We will renew the Health Sport Village with our friends from the Mutuelle du Rempart while increasing its capacity and setting up workshops on sports medicine for players. Ethics and Doping will be on the agenda with the French Association for Sport without Violence and Fair Play.

We will also be launching around thirty invitations to manufacturers of rackets, courts, and the media to form the Salon Européen du Padel. The partners will find beautiful facilities to receive their players, their teachers, their clients …… and to participate in conferences on the future of our sport. All sponsored by padelmagazine.fr.

Finally, a village on connected objects to highlight the modernity of our sport.

But what is the sporting framework? European Cup and / or Mixed French Open?

The first edition of the European Club Cup, which has been very successful with participating 8 clubs as well as with partners and the public, has shown that this formula should have its own date and its own playing field. to continue to grow. We have agreed with EFCA that the second edition will be organized with 16 franchise clubs in October 2018.

Several cities and several European clubs are on the run, the 16 October in Valencia members of the AECP Steering Committee should endorse the applications in order to allow the 16 clubs to make a quick decision.

The Open de France retaining the formula of an online table of 16 pairs with 4 wildcards, 2 of which go to the 2017 finalists in priority. A so-called consoling table will bring together the defeated of the first round. To allow each team to play a maximum of matches during the 3 days of competitions, we will bring together the participants of the mixed in 1 women's table of 8 teams and a men's table of 8 teams.

How are you going to select the teams?
All players will be registered by their equipment manufacturers and priority will be given to players who are members of clubs recognized by EFCA. We register by its equipment manufacturers and we are admitted preferably through his club.

André and Claude what pushes you to take up the organizer racket every year?
We respond with one and the same voice: our friendship and the immense joy of bringing together companies and volunteers who want to believe in the challenge of one day seeing all the public or private bodies that really love this sport be united under the same coat of arms. of the French Open of Padel, our brand, at the service of padel.

And do you really believe it?
We have the experience of the Little As of Tarbes in tennis ... Who has believed us the first year and today ...

The French Federation of Padel who, from 1992 to 2003, was able to build from scratch the base on which our discipline surfs today. But be careful not a surfer who buys a board.  It suffices that an instance of padel joins us and accompanies us, like the European Association of Clubs of padel has already done so, so that everything goes very quickly.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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