If in the Paris region, the padel is becoming more and more important. In Paris Intramuros, it is another matter. Many projects padel try to end up in Paris. For the moment without success… But until when? “2019 will be the year of padel", Explained again recently the President of the FFT, Bernard Giudicelli. It may well be that Paris is the perfect illustration.
We hoped to see the UCPA project succeed in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. But a priori, the project was suspended. The project could be completely abandoned for administrative reasons. The UCPA had however worked on this file and was ready to invest more than 500.000 € to make this first club of padel Intramural. The 5-year agreement did not scare the UCPA. Yet she will never succeed in transforming the essay.
Last September, the City of Paris opened a call for tenders in the 16th arrondissement of Paris at Trinquet. The city of Paris explained that it wanted to keep this space to promote sport. Obviously in the offers made to the City of Paris, from padel was there ... Well, we hope so. We invite you to read or reread our article from last October.
And as always, the Puteaux Interdepartmental Sports Park Tennis with its 24 tennis courts and many other sports areas is the ideal site for hosting padel. Already in 2013/2014, the site was chosen by investors to build a club of padel... Once again, a project padel will not go to the end. But last June, the French Tennis Federation explained that it had the ambition to build a National Training Center with 12 to 24 courts in Paris… Obviously, we had imagined…
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The year 2018 was rich in announcements and broken promises in our microcosm. Padel. Let us express our wishes for 2019: acts and achievements of padel well thought out and well animated. the padel cannot be the FFT's cash cow when it comes to licensing because the padel is not able to produce enough milk; meat can be .... Understand who can.
Claude