Sandy Farquharson discovers the padel there are 7 in Dubai and will attend the first Ramadan Padel Tournament. His fate is sealed: The padel will never leave him again. He will quickly become an ambassador Head in Dubai and will work in one of the most prestigious sports complexes in Dubai: at the NAS Sports Complex.

Interview with one of the organizers of the FIP RISE in Dubai where he reached the semi-final and lost to the winner of the event.

Le padel, a logical continuation

I have always been in racket sports. Besides before padel, I had experience in tennis. I played and taught tennis. And little by little, I found myself just doing padel. My particularity: I have a specialty in sports biomechanics. A very interesting discipline in the padel because it is a sport sometimes complicated in the movements. We can do a lot of sores. This is why understanding your body and finding gestures that are more comfortable for the body are very important.

Teaching with the best coaches

I was able to spend many weeks alongside the greatest coaches of padel to the world like Horacio Clementi, Marcela Ferrari, Manu Martin, Rodri Ovide etc. which allows me today to be operational for the teaching of padel.

After spending time on FIP tournaments (Fédération Internationale de padel) and WPT (World Padel Tour) or on tournaments in Great Britain, I turn to teaching and sharing what I have been able to acquire so far.

The Padel School, a logical continuation

I created THE PADEL SCHOOL. This is a Youtube channel with videos to help players new to padel. It is a chain that is developing well. This channel is in English. Since the beginning of the year I have been the junior coach of the England team and work with the English federation (LTA).

In Dubai, I am the technical advisor for the federation of padel (UAE). And I take care of organizing the UAE in particular Padel Tour with this first year. I managed 5 tournaments of the FIP… it starts to do and in terms of experience we learn a lot.

The goal is to bring international players to Dubai. In this FIP RISE tournament alone, we had a lot of European players. And it is already a great victory for the exhibition of padel In the region.

From the Masters of the World Padel in 2015, FIP RISE was the first major international tournament to take place in Dubai.

The future: The teaching of padel

The future looks very interesting: First I will continue to promote the padel in England and Dubai. We will also continue to develop the teaching part in the padel via THE PADEL SCHOOL with its chain. In 2020, I will complete www.thepadelschool.com  with articles, videos and photos from padel to allow anyone to learn to play padel for free.

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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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