CANAL + is betting on the boom in padel. The audiovisual group has set up a team of specialists to animate the broadcasts of the World Padel Tour. Laura Clergue, Robin Haziza and Jérôme Inzérillo will be the consultants padel accompanied by journalists and commentators Lyes Houhou, Sébastien Heulot and Mathilde Brun.

Canal + will focus on French players

"The French Bastien Blanqué, Benjamin Tison, Johann Bergeron for the men, Alix Collombon and Léa Godallier for the women, are among the prominent and well classified players on the professional circuit.”Comments Canal +.

Alix Collombon has won two tournaments on the WPT circuit this season (Challenger), a first for a French woman.

The first meetings

First dates on the CANAL + channels:

  • Meeting with the French n ° 1 of Padel, Benjamin Tison, at his home in Barcelona. An exclusive report this Saturday on C8, between the semi-finals of the Paris Rolex Masters of tennis.
  • CANAL + will broadcast on its sports channels the quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals of the “Madrid Masters Final”, from December 16 to 19, 2021, which will conclude the 2021 season.

The next 5 seasons, i.e. until 2026, will then be offered.

For the padel, it is an exceptional visibility: 22 million subscribers.

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Global coverage

Canal + has 22 million subscribers around the world. the padel will be able to take advantage of this launch pad.*

For Thierry Cheleman, director of sports at CANAL +: “ The arrival on our channels of a rapidly developing sport such as Padel is great news. CANAL + has always been a trendsetter in sports broadcasting, and we are once again present to offer the sports of tomorrow to our subscribers. As for other sports we will offer the World Padel Tour quality coverage, with lives largely enriched by the work of our editorial teams."

For Mario Hernando, Managing Director of World Padel Tour " This new alliance between CANAL + and World Padel Tour is a double satisfaction for us. First of all, we are delighted to be associated with one of the largest audiovisual companies in the world. Second, CANAL + is an operator that comes to cover a market in which the padel still has considerable room for growth. We are convinced that CANAL + will allow our competition and its worldwide distribution to achieve a qualitative leap. "

(*) France, Andorra, Monaco, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Vietnam, Myanmar, Haiti,
Angola, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Senegal, Seychelles, Socotra, Sudan, South Sudan,
Eswatini, St Helena and Ascension, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar and Zimbabwe.
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.