We contacted Alexis Salles, coach of the French men's team, and the French champion Benjamin Tison. The two men are relaxed, ready to give their all this afternoon (16 p.m. French time) in the semi-finals of the Qatar World Cup. facing the spanish ogre.

The 73rd player in the WPT ranking, Benjamin Tison is very realistic about the level difference between the two selections, but he still hopes that France can win at least one round against Spain. “It would be quite unrealistic to believe that we can beat the Spaniards, knowing that we have never won a set against them before! But we're going to play hard, do our best, and try to take this set from them already. I always go on the field with the goal of winning my match. Even small, there is always hope, it's still padel ! "

Benjamin Tison Johan Bergeron Qatar World Cup 2020 match

Same story on the side of the coach Alexis Salles: 

“We are first of all super happy to have beaten Uruguay yesterday and to be in the semi-finals. It was clearly a goal we set for ourselves at the start of the week. The players were very serious, so we are delighted.

Alexis Salles joy victory France Qatar 2020

Now it's a new competition that begins. It will be much more complicated but we will go looking for everything we can: a set, a match… We want to approach the meetings in the best possible way, with the same rituals, the same commitment. A meeting is never played before it is over, so we will give our all, so that we have no regrets.

We may not yet have the team, the weapons, to win against a nation like Spain, but we have to prepare as if we could win! ”

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