If the clubs of padel may be able to watch reopen, chances are reality will catch up with them. How to open when the health standards presented by the government could cost too much in the end?

A thorny question to which we will not be able to answer because we will have to wait for the next government announcements concerning the de-containment and the de-containment protocol for clubs of padel of the French Tennis Federation.

Health standards too expensive?

Whatever happens for the clubs to reopen, the clubs must first meet health standards. And this is perhaps the most complicated: how much will it cost to set up a health referent?

How much will it cost to have everything cleaned up, to review the entire club system at times?

Let us even admit that we can reopen the clubs of padel : is it economically viable when we know that at best, we can only play 2 players on a field? The mobilization of an employee will perhaps cost more than what the reopening of a club brings.

Especially since “the living area”, the club house will not be able to open. Players will not be able to redo the match during a 3rd half in front of the bar. The player is inevitably disappointed, but the club too.

The other concern: it is the aid provided by the government to sports clubs that are closed ... If they reopen, will they be able to take advantage of some administrative and financial aid for their club? For the moment, the government has not provided much details.

While May 11 is advancing with great strides, little is really known yet about this de-containment. The government continues to take its time, certainly for the good of all, but in the end, sports clubs still cannot organize themselves properly.

Can FFT help the padel to revive as quickly as tennis?

Last Saturday, Roxana Maracineanu, the Minister of Sports explained that the sport would resume on May 11. “The structures can accommodate 10 people outdoors ”.

Does this mean that we must put an end to indoor structures?

This weekend, the Minister of Sports confirmed that she was working with "The Sports Federations to give these health rules". One way to tell the Federations, it's up to you!

The French Tennis Federation is therefore supposed to have the cards in hand to offer the Ministry of Sports these famous health rules. Will the FFT take into account the specificities of our sport? Will it allow indoor structures to reopen? Will the FFT allow you to play 1 against 1 like tennis? Individual lessons authorized?

One might think that the FFT has all the cards in hand, but in reality, Minister Maracineanu indicates in passing her conditions for the resumption of sports practice: it will imperatively be that the barrier measures are applied “individually with rules of very precise distancing. We are working with the federations so that they give us these sanitary rules that we will pass on publicly. ”

“A respected distancing”

Le padel this is not tennis we are told behind the scenes. It is rightly recalled that a field of padel it is 200 m² against 638 m² on average for a tennis court.

And in addition that the padel is played “in a closed structure”. We are made to understand that the padel, this is not tennis and therefore should not be compared.

There is some truth. One can not deny it. The Minister of Sports argues that the distancing rules must be applied in all sports complexes that reopen. Except that tennis or padel, factually, it will not change much despite the different sizes between padel and tennis.

The sports world is already suffering enough. We see in other countries, the clubs of padel open… But at what cost?

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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