Since 2014, the French Tennis Federation represents the padel. In 2015, the FFT achieved a master stroke for its development: The installation of a padel ephemeral at Roland Garros. What an exhibition!

We can see here that tennis and padel have every interest in allying themselves.

In the short term, tennis can greatly help the padel to develop thanks to its pool of racket players on all continents. His power in communication is particularly important. In France, the FFT has a real role to play in promoting padel.

The world of tennis believes in and invests in padel « to help find alternatives to slow growth in tennis Explain many tennis officials.

France has seen its number of licensees drop significantly. The padel, a remedy to revitalize clubs?

The Club des Pyramides, one of the largest sports complexes in Europe, is the perfect example with its 10 hectares of sports space, including 27 tennis courts. In 2009, the tennis club installed the first tennis court padel from the Paris region. And the club continues its investments:

« We started with a field, then 3 since 2 years. We're adding 4 more next spring »Says the commercial director of the sports center, Catherine Riou.

In Belgium, the former tennis champions Christophe Rochus and Laurent Montoisy were also stung by the padel to the point of making it part of their profession today: " We must be careful not to confuse these two sports. These are both 2 sports totally different and at the same time connected ».

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.