Interview by Téléfuturo of the President of the Paraguayan Federation of Padel Ruben Duarte around the world championships padel which will take place at his home from October 28 to November 4. Until then, we will offer you regular columns on Paraguay with Thomas Richou.

Paraguay will host the World Padel 2018. The country is preparing ...

This year, from October 28 to November 4, Paraguay will receive for the world 16 teams from different countries, women and men, with a total of about 350 athletes from Germany, France, Spain, all over Europe. Japan maybe ...

Thank God, the Sports Secretariat supports us tremendously.

The sports secretariat will inaugurate two new fields and we will also ride 5 other Olympic indoor pitches because it is very hot here.

Can you tell us about the world junior?

We have a fantastic junior team. We finished third at the world level. It's amazing, the junior team is excellent.

At the female level too, even if it's a bit more difficult. We have a good level.

The juniors beat the Brazilians and therefore finished just behind the two great nations of the padel.

We will be well prepared for the world who is in Brazil, anticipate well, work with the sponsors and try to win or match the Argentineans.

Le padel in Paraguay?

In Paraguay, the Padel has been developing for the past 4 years. We went from 80 to 160 teams on the national circuit.

We play a lot in many cities of the country, Encarnacion, Ciudad Del Este, impressive.

Encarnacion today has great clubs, we play a lot. Colonias Unidas also. Surprising places that we did not think of as Villarica, Pedro Juan Caballero, Oviedo, Caaguazu too.

 How does it work with the Federation?

 Clubs are associations. In all we have 4000 players who participate in all the competitions in the country. We have nine official tournaments (Encarnacion, Asuncion, Ciudad Del Este, Colonias Unidas, Villarica ...) and this year adds Caaguazu.

Thomas Richou - Padel Magazine

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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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