The French Tennis Federation will set up its own circuit from January 1, 2019: The FFT Padel Tour.
A circuit whose objective is to promote padel with the French population. For this, the FFT has decided to combine competitions of padel where it will bring together the best French players from padel, a strong endowment and many points to glean and the discovery of the padel in public places.
On the competition part, a priori, we will focus on P2000. For now, nothing is validated yet. But the FFT has already explained several times that it is currently working on the establishment of one or new categories: P1500 and P2000.
These new categories will meet specific specifications and will be known in advance. The specifications will obviously be more restrictive than the CDC in the P1000 category.
Regarding public squares, everything remains to be done. The new operator in charge of setting up the FFT Padel Tour must precisely work on this essential point. Ambitions are high. We could well see some stages on public squares of big cities…
We necessarily think of the French Open of padel which takes place every year, Place du Capitole in Toulouse. A unique event in one of the most beautiful squares in the world which has already shown the way.
This event proved that it not only worked and lasted over time, but also clearly brought new players to padel.