This regulation will make the players who play the game happy and especially the organizers of tournaments. padel faced with a recurring problem: Players who do not want to participate in ranking matches and especially players who register for 2 tournaments at the same time before withdrawing one of them.

We explain to you.

Classification matches

Many clubs padel organize tournaments with ranking matches that they try to make mandatory. Except: If some players want to play the ranking matches, others don't. Conclusion: it penalizes the players and the organizers often unfairly criticized.

The FFT has decided: From now on, the players must play the classification matches.

In case of refusal to play a classification match, the pair will then be classified at the last rank of the tournament. It is indeed compulsory to play the classification matches proposed by the Organizer.

A tolerance is accepted for losers in the P 1 4/1000 finals if a pair who lost in the P 1 4/1000 finals does not wish to play classification matches, they will then be classified in rank 8.

Problem: Players who do not want to participate in ranking matches are often players who do not need these points. The sanction is therefore only in appearance because in fact, clubs may be faced with the same problem. Perhaps it would be necessary to widen the sanction to a disciplinary sanction, obviously only if the organizer had announced beforehand that the classification matches are compulsory in his event.

Registration for 2 tournaments simultaneously 

Here is a subject that we have often denounced in the past: players who register for several tournaments of padel simultaneously, who wait for the tables to come out to forfeit the event where the table is the most unfavorable.

The clubs will thus be able to report information to the FFT authorities if they realize that a player's package is actually linked to a simultaneous registration for 2 events.

Please note, it is forbidden to register for 2 tournaments simultaneously. Consequently, a player forced to withdraw from one of the two tournaments in which he is registered, risks disciplinary sanctions. The Tournament Referee may, in this case, draw up a "Penalty Card" which he will send to the Regional Litigation Commission of the League in which the Tournament took place.

Comment: A very good thing that will make some players think twice before registering for several events at the same time. padel. But, it is not easy for the club to investigate each forfeit. The organizer is thinking above all about a way to recover his last minute pass.

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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