The National Cru Padel Cup 2017 was exceptional with a rich week padelistically and beautiful winners. This ordeal settles over time and offers probably one of the best images of the padel in France.

Impressive figures

200 pairs registered for the National qualifiers Padel Cup last Sunday for 10 Wild Cards allowing the best players to enter the main draw made up of the best French pairs.

A level "increasingly higher and this from the qualifications. We see that more and more players in the National Tennis Cup are putting themselves in the padel. "Explains Christophe Lesage, the President of the National Tennis Cup.

For these final stages, which started this year on Thursday, 100 pairs at the start (ladies, gentlemen and mixed) gathered mainly qualified from 25 stages carried out all over France.

The best at the rendezvous

Objective: to capture the title of the 3rd edition of the National Padel cup 2017.

Almost the entire French team of padel was present for both men and women, notably with the French champions of padel 2017, Alix Collombon and Jessica Ginier and the French champions of padel with Johan Bergeron and Bastien Blanqué.

It was a good training for the players before the European Championships of Padel 2017 which will take place in Estoril in 8 days.

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Fights and show

Throughout the week, it was many spectators, an atmosphere of madness, the great spectacle offered by the players despite the late hour of games.

Between the aperitifs, the evenings and the dinners, the players were not spared, because it was necessary to keep the pace!

Collombon / Ginier holds his rank

In the ladies, the French numbers have achieved a near perfect course.

In the final, she played against Léa Godallier and Marianne Vandaele, one of the best French pairs but had a very complicated course to get there.

In the quarter as in the semifinals, it took 3 sets to beat Romanowski / Kik in super tie-break then Sorel / Casanova in 3 sets.

In the first set of this final, the champions of France do not make detail by winning 6 / 1. Too fast, too regular, the first French pair leaves no chance for their opponent to hope ...

But here, Godallier / Vandaele begins to better read the trajectories, Collombon / Ginier slightly loosens the embrace and the drizzle made its appearance until becoming insistent in the middle of the second set. But the girls, unlike the gentlemen, decide to continue their match.

Godallier / Vandaele seizes this moment of floating to break up and return to the second set.

She pushes Collombon / Ginier at the tie-break. But the French numbers are above and thus win this final on the final score of 6 / 1 7 / 6.

Scatena / Ritz: FINALLY!

It was hard, it was long, perilous, but the vice-champions of France of padel 2017 finally hold their victory over the champions of France 2017.

However, to win, it was necessary to bring down the master of the place since the first edition of the National Padel Cup: Bastien Blanqué, winner of the two previous editions.

In the semifinals, we already had big games with Haziza / Moreau who will push Bergeron / Blanqué to the 3e set and the pair Morillon / Tison who will sell his skin dearly by bowing 7 / 6 7 / 6 against Scatena / Ritz.

The final thus promised to be explosive between the finalists of the last French championships of padel.

In the first set, the battle is tough, but it is the vice-champions of France who dictate their law against the pair Bergeron / Blanqué. The first set is won by Jérémy Scatena - Jérémy Ritz 6 / 3 thanks to a great start.

In the second set, some French numbers feel better and breake of entry. But the match stops at 2 / 1 15A in their favor since the rain will stop the match.

A week from Europe, the pair Blanqué / Bergeron particularly feared the injury. But the more lenient conditions will allow to resume.

Back on the field, the pair Blanqué / Bergeron resumed as if nothing had happened and confirms his break.

At 5/3, Blanqué / Bergeron has three times the possibility of making a double break to win the set. In vain. Scatena / Ritz manages to win his serve in difficulty and mentally. The French numbers 3 should be broken just behind to return to 2 everywhere. We have to start all over again for the French champions of padel while they were at a point of catching up again for a decisive third round.

Behind, Blanqué / Bergeron blows the blow and allows Scatena / Ritz to finally win his P1000 beating in the final numbers French. (6 / 3 7 / 5)

The Franco-Spanish touch of the National Padel Cup

Among the mixed, the level was very appreciated by the spectators seeing for example Alix Collombon associated with Robin Haziza. But it is ultimately the Franco-Spanish pair Jorge De Benito / Christelle Plunian who will go to the end of this great competition with in particular very good performances in the quarter and then in the semi-final. Observers can testify that their fuel was rather alcoholic in the evening… and it works!

Pauline Renvoisé / Franck Binisti - Padel Magazine

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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