Adrien Maigret and Benjamin Tison have been causing a sensation for almost a year. This French pair is even the revelation of the year 2017/2018. They could play well. We knew it. But just as well and so quickly… Who would have believed it? In a very short time, they have become essentials of the padel French and the French team of padel. They are part of the 3 undisputed pairs of the France team.

We will see that their opponents are also delighted to have a French pair with this type of game in their rank ... Focus on the game of Adrien Maigret and Benjamin Tison.

Favorites for the French championships of padel

If we ask the players of the French top 50, who is the favorite pair for the French championships of padel, the majority will answer you Tison / Maigret. What a reversal of the situation, when the two players had failed to pass the stage of the group stages during the French championships of padel 2017.

After a year of padel, they have not only caught up with the best, but certainly even have the possibility of becoming the French champions of padel 2018. They are the favorites of these French championships, even if the competition promises to be tough with in particular the pair Scatena / Haziza and of course the current champions of France, Bergeron / Blanqué.

All the pairs that have crossed the line with them agree that it quickly becomes unplayable.

Too fast, too fast, they do not leave us time to play

Le padel of tomorrow is a very fast game

While "everything is not perfect"By the admission of one of the interested parties, Adrien Maigret,"what we do well, we do it better than others ". Is not everything here?

In still many academies of padel, especially in Spain, you learn to let the ball pass, to take the time to place the ball, to lob, etc. Yes, but just doing that is not enough. Jérémy Scatena, one of the best players in padel French and training in Barcelona explains:

Playing the old fashioned way was enough to go far. Today, the one who plays quickly makes his opponents outsmart. And the Tison / Maigret pair are the first pair in France to play like this when they have less padel than most of the top 20 players.

The Tison / Maigret pair still have fewer options than their main opponents. She certainly has some shortcomings in the shots of the padel classics, but his ultra aggressive game thwarts his opponents. And maybe this is the key: Don't allow opponents to set up their game.

The other key is obviously the hand. They are both very good tennis players, who have so far always been opponents on a tennis court. And we now see them playing together on a padel...

Opponents become partners

It's Nathalis AUJAY DUMO, President of Tennis / Padel Mantes-la-Jolie club (ASM Tennis) who tells us how Adrien Maigret and Benjamin Tison became opponents on the tennis courts to become teammates on the slopes of padel :

Benjamin plays for the Mantes club. And we sometimes saw Adrien and Benjamin playing against each other. They weren't necessarily the best friends in the world. But the padel brought them together to allow them today to take center stage in the padel.

They seriously start the padel about 2 years ago. But last year, they decided to join forces and try the adventure ... We know the rest.

It's the padel of the future

Jérémy Scatena, several times French champions of padel with his partner Robin Haziza, analyzes the performances of these two players:

Adrien and Benjamin, it's the padel of the future. Some players, and even players of the World Padel Tour have not yet seen this mutation of padel global. The padel is getting faster and faster.

Tennis players, especially the very good ones have a huge advantage over average tennis players, they have an arm and a hand that can help them immensely. padel.

Yet I see that some great coaches of padel too want to bring these tennis players back as 100% players padel. Because the padel modern has become much more brutal than 5 years ago.

While they are not even 2 years old padel behind them, we see them passing caps very quickly.

We will not lie, our best French players are still very far from the best players in Argentina and Spain. Serious things are starting now. And we'll see if our French can come to tickle Hispanic hegemony.

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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