REDSTAR PADEL TENNIS CLUB will offer us very soon padel rue de Beaupuy in Limoges.

If you haven't heard of the padel, it will not be long. This discipline, which is played both outdoors and on indoor or semi-indoor courts, with glass walls, a smaller racket and heavier balls, is booming in France. In the bosom of the FFT since July 2014 officially, this fun sport and complementary to tennis has since benefited from a boost.

While some may have worried about the development of a discipline close to tennis, for the FFT tennis and padel are not competitors. Even if each discipline retains its own tactical or technical specificities, they are nonetheless complementary racquet sports.

It is from this postulate that the red star tennis club limoges decided to create a structure padel complementary to the existing tennis club.

  • Thanks to the creation of two padel the Red Star also wants to strengthen and boost its tennis section. For this, the total area of ​​the complex can be mobilized for tennis events and padel. The association wishes to be part of the complementarity of the two disciplines both at the material and immaterial level (teaching, tournaments ...) with the objective of sustaining existing jobs but also creating 1,5 additional jobs.
  • In terms of equipment pooling sports equipment for the animation of the courses, use of club house living spaces and locker rooms. Use of tennis courts for the organization of sporting events and private events (galas, receptive intermediate events)
  • On the immaterial level: 2 teachers DES + 1 DE assisted by a trainee instructor + 3 assistants tennis instructors + office of the association Red Star tc

The structure padel will be backed up by the existing tennis structure and will therefore be able to benefit from a strategic location in the center of Limoges with a large possibility of existing parking lots.

In addition to a location close to the center of Limoges the Red Star complex has a dual access (rue de New York and rue de Beaupuy) allowing a fluidity of traffic, parking and reception for all public (home mini-bus , medical vehicle, wheelchairs) at the doors of the site.

The actions of the red star tennis club

  • On the basis of existing actions, the objective of the tennis section is to strengthen its offers with a complementarity in connection with the services padel.
  • Sophie Douchet, Sports Director welcomes and acts as a tutor for teachers and educators in federal and ministerial training. This framework will be extended to the section padel.

The competitions

The club hosts each season individual sanctioned tournaments such as:

  • TMC men and women from NC to 30 / 1
  • Senior Men's and Women's Tournaments from NC to 15 / 1
  • trays red, orange, green children from 8 to 10 years
  • TMC women from 3 / 6 to 0 in April
  • An Open June / July
  • An approved internal tournament
  • Men's, Women's and Children's Team Championships
  • Men's and Women's French Championships

LESSONS ADAPTED TO ALL

For competitors:

-An adult and youth training center supervised by an DES with classification objectives

-Specialized groups in team competitions in which physical preparation times are included. Support and follow-up of the players is proposed

For “leisure” adults:

-Course from Monday to Friday from 1h to 1H30 with sports events such as doubles, mixed doubles and other unapproved competitions

For children from 3 to 18 years old:

-The tennis galaxy for 3 11 years including sessions adapted to the smallest with a whole universe of teaching adapted from Monday to Saturday

-The beginners and advanced tennis school for the 11-18 years with a possible approach of the competition from Monday to Saturday

Reception of sports and health groups and adapted tennis:

-Two sections that allow specialized audiences to practice tennis in conditions adapted to their handicap

In short, the actions of red star tennis and padel club

-Structuring and sports development activities:

to increase the disciplines around courses supervised by professionals. The objective is to present competitors with technical and physical support.

-Leasing actions of the grounds:

 animate the city center on this discipline by offering leisure and "after work" packages for all audiences

To propose the discovery of the discipline to colleges, high schools, centers

-Development actions of theevenementiel:

 CE, associative but also private partnerships (possible privatization of the structure to host mid-size sports events, networking, sponsoring, etc.)

SECTION PADEL, The form

  • Worn by the association red star tennis club the structure will develop materially by the modification of the room Georges Bricout in the extension of the 2 clay courts covered. The structure will benefit from a closed space meeting the safety and homologation requirements of the FFT.
  • Ground Surface: 650 M2
  • Project for opening and extending the left flank on the ground side

 

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.