The French Tennis Federation, thanks to its tool Ten'Up, is helping us to better understand theThe way of consuming French padel. Officially, according to this platform, these are 25.000 practitioners who have played padel at least once.

1 in 4 padel players on Ten'Up

The figure may seem low. However, we can estimate that it is almost one in four players in France if we are to believe our estimates. Indeed, according to the FFT, nearly 25.000 padel players have been identified out of the 100.000 supposed padel players via the Federation's platform, Ten'Up.

If the estimate may appear significant, according to our calculations, we would not be not far from the account. And with this boom of new padel players in 2020, we can even imagine record numbers for clubs if COVID-19 leaves us alone.

It is obvious that this information must be taken with great care, because it is very difficult to give precise figures on the number of practitioners in France.

However, the FFT manages to provide us with fairly precise figures, unlike many other federations.

Ten'Up padel figure analysis

Ten'Up: a positive indicator

In conclusion, the 25.000 players listed on Ten'Up in 2020 represent:

  • 11.200 ranked: a ranked player is a player who has played at least one padel tournament in the last 12 months – During the pandemic period, the months of confinement were frozen.
  • FFT licensees who have declared padel as their main practice on Ten'Up
  • non-licensees who have reserved at least one site via Ten'Up

So obviously, with just under a million FFT members, padel still has a long way to go. But we can clearly see a “leisure” trend at work in padel.

And Ten'Up could be a very good tool in the future to show us the development of our sport, since in reality half of the padel players on the site have not played tournaments.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.

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