Some will laugh: How can we write that the padel is both a team sport, but also particularly individualistic. Maybe even more than tennis, contrary to what one might think.

First, the padel is a team sport. It is a sport that is practiced with 2 and even 3 for those who are lucky to have a coach on the ground. Because in this sport, we have the right to be helped by a trainer. We can see him regularly during the matches of the World Padel Tour.

On the field, both players must support each other, motivate themselves and move forward together, even when it's difficult.

But to move forward together, there is first a lot of individual work. How to listen? How to give the best of yourself to help your partner? Jean-Marc Pequery, mental coach, explained to us that his work with some top players of padel French was precisely to help them, among other things, to better communicate with their partners. “Before thinking about your partner, you have to think of yourself, your behavior, what you are going to project with your partner to enable you to be in the best possible conditions".

KO can come from his own partner

Au padel, there are relatively few expectations between points compared to tennis. it can go very quickly, turn in one direction or another ... A bit like squash for the initiated. A word from your partner can boost you and revive you as having the opposite effect.

For that, it is necessary to carry out a big individual work, to question for a common cause, but also to help his partner. An individual job for this team sport.

Hence all the enormous work that there must be upstream. You have to be mentally prepared.

Le padel, it is also sometimes a hard sport to take. Who says association, says separation. This separation is like a divorce. When we embark on an adventure together, and one day a pair breaks because one of the players hopes to find greener grass elsewhere, the one who is “abandoned” may experience discomfort and pain. difficulties to relaunch sportingly. Sometimes, this neglected player can even find himself in a complicated situation, for example, no longer having partners available… and therefore no longer able to play.

Le padel can therefore be terrible, because if the padel is a team sport, it is also a very individual sport which can sometimes hurt and hurt a (former) partner. But that's the life of padel (and even amateur players). And it is far from being so easy!

You see the life of players from padel, not so simple, but we love it anyway! Love what!

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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