Tennis teachers would now support the integration of the padel within the club where they teach tennis to overcome a weariness of doing the same activity for years.

A little like for club leaders, the desires of teachers are very varied. Several factors also come into play.

First of all, not all tennis teachers are full time. This indeed plays on this desire to want to see the arrival of the padel in their club, because depending on their time in the club, their involvement and interest in the club and its development diverge. In addition, a teacher who is part-time does not necessarily have the time to teach the padel and can therefore be indifferent as to the padel in the club in which he teaches.

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Then the tennis teachers, who correspond to the current majority of coaches of padel, are still very little to teach. In our study, only 4,8% of the sample teach, and only a little more than one in two respondents ever thought of taking a diploma " padel », Which currently still does not exist, it is a training. Compared to two years ago, for a roughly similar sample, we did not see a clear change in the percentage of coaches wanting to graduate.

Finally, the age variable plays its role in the desire to want to teach this new sporting activity. Young coaches are more inclined to develop new skills and get involved in the padel.

Thus this hypothesis is to be partially retorted. The majority of teachers are not in favor of investing in this branch of padel.

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Pierre Lemonnier

Pierre studied STAPS, and validated a master's degree in sports management, after studying in Reims, Frankfurt and Lille. I discovered the padel in 2014 during my Erasmus year in Frankfurt thanks to a Spanish friend. Damn it is good padel !

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