A world padel championship in France after the construction of the National Padel Training Center? This is at least an ambition on the part of the French Tennis Federation, which is aiming very far.

The President of the FFT, Bernard Giudicelli, has indeed opened doors by suggesting that France could eventually be interested in hosting a padel world championship. But only when the CNE Padel, the "Roland Garros of padel"Will be validated and realized.

France has only organized one padel world championship in its history, it was in 2000 in Toulouse. Argentina had then thrashed Spain 3-0 in the men's category. Same for the women's, but it was Spain who won 3-0 against Argentina. 20 years later, we find the same nations in the top 2 places in the world. But who knows... We were able to see during the world championship that the levels were getting closer even if Spain and Argentina were still far from the other nations.

We still have time between now and then to progress, since the FFT is awaiting a decision for the establishment of this CNE. Padel on the Island of Puteaux.

"The decision should take place in the next few weeks” explained to us a few days ago, the elected official in charge of padel: Hubert Picquier.

Things could then go much faster ...

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.

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