Let us love this sport: Padel. But once said that, hard to find the words behind the love of the sport. We will try here to tell you why this sport is so enjoyable, why can we consider that the padel is tennis off-piste? why does it have so much development potential? But also why is it not so easy to evaluate all this ...

Which sport offers so much freedom?

Are there other sports that allow as much freedom as padel ? We love this sport because there is no time limit or land limit ...

Leaving the field to catch a ball is possible.

Part can therefore last very long. Especially since the exchanges can last!

But if we have to compare with tennis: The Padel is much more accessible. With a few notions of rackets, you can play padel and have fun because it is a sport that is level with the players and not the other way around. In tennis, before having fun and having a few exchanges, you will have to wait ... padel, you may never have played this sport, and yet you already know how to play!

Of course, the padel has its rules, its way of playing. And if you don't want to stick to what you have learned, you will have to take lessons and play!

What sport brings together so much?

In Spain, the padel is particularly practiced in leisure. We find there all ages and sexes. It is the sport considered the most mixed. Moreover, we observe that Spain, a country traditionally “very family” is therefore perfectly reflected in the spirit padel. Many families practice padel with family.

The REAL numbers of padel

Will France follow this trend?

Difficult to find this trend

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Yes and no. For the moment, it is not easy to give exact figures. Besides, the whole problem is there. How to concretely assess the evolution of padel in France if the path follows our Spanish neighbor. Leisure players do not participate in tournaments padel, are not made redundant and thus do not allow entry into the statistics of the padel.

For example, in Spain it is estimated that nearly 3 million practitioners of padel. Yet in the figures, we only see 50.000 dismissed from padel. These figures should be taken with a grain of salt, since Spain does not have the license culture as much as France. By way of comparison, Spain only has about 100.000 tennis licensees in tennis compared to nearly a million for France. However, there are globally as many players in France as in Spain ...

An imbalance among the licensees

By following the French numbers, we see that there is clearly an imbalance between the number of players ladies and gentlemen. It is true that for the moment, it is not easy for a club to find a match during a ladies' tournament. On the other hand, the clubs confirm us that the women are more numerous to participate in internal events of the club or to play in leisure.

Figures on the development of padel in France

The certified joint, for when?

Then the other observation: "There are a lot of mixed matches in the padel”Say Jean-Marc and Sandra Dalain, managers of the club padel at the Marseille Tennis Club. John Beranbaum, the founder of Padel Club de Bois d'Arcy (Yvelines) adds: "We hope to see mixed tournaments homologated in the coming months, because it seems that there is a wait for players".

Jeff Cadiou, player of padel enthusiast in the southeast hope that the padel will not follow the path of squash precisely and that there will be the possibility for everyone to have fun.

In short, the padel, perhaps an off-piste sport of tennis, but beyond the comparisons which may not be very productive, it is a sport in full boom in Europe, which has everything to afford good days .

Le padel it is: neither time limit, nor land limit.

And it's a fiesta sport! And that, we like!

 

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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