The future of padel is certainly all mapped out. And so much the better!
But the padel is it sometimes not over-revving? Do not overestimate it padel to the point of anticipating figures that are too large in relation to the state of padel current? Are there not too many tournaments padel in France in relation to its number of licensees?
As usual, I will try to deal with this complicated topic. But this time, it's me who asks you mostly questions. Do not hesitate to intervene.
You have understood it, here not being to say what works, but what can pose a problem, or the elements that can be called into question. I will therefore attack by the number of clubs padel which are developing in France.
Seen from afar, it's surprising. The park padel French today offers land on almost all of France. No region is spared by the madness of padel.
What a joy to see this as we know that there are still a few years, he had to travel sometimes hundreds of km to fall on a field. What progress!
However, sometimes I wonder if the offer is sometimes not too important in a region in relation to demand?
Not wanting to stigmatize anyone, I chose not to mention any clubs or regions. But you will easily see that some French regions are found with several clubs of padel on a reduced perimeter.
Sometimes even, on a limited area, we have a few clubs padel each offering 1 or 2 courts.
Is this a good thing for our sport?
I do not know. In some cases: Yes, because the demand is strong and that it allows to democratize this sport and to widen the number of players. But is this the case everywhere?
Will multiply the number of clubs with one or two padel is a good method?
On the one hand, I am told that it is perfect for the development of our sport, and on the other, I am told that it can affect the quality of the development of our sport.
Should subsidies to sports associations not be more regulated and depend on the capacity of an area to host and create new players especially?
I'm waiting for your feedback.
Every week, the clubs of padel send us press releases regarding their padel. And we regularly try to put the clubs forward. The news is more and more dense. And here too, that's good!
But we realize with our global vision, that of course, the number of players evolves, but paradoxically, tournaments of padel are sometimes poorly provided or even canceled.
Is there not a contradiction here?
In our opinion, it seems that at times there are too many padel compared to the current capacity of the padel French.
The goal here is to find the best alchemy for the health of our clubs. padel and the well-being of the players. If you have any comments, now is the time! We will try to come back to this theme with your analyzes.
Long live the padel !
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Hi Julian,
Super article as hab;)
You raise good questions.
For my part, I am convinced that for a developing sport, the abundance of places to practice is necessarily good news. It was the same phenomenon with foot5, if we do not want the bellows of the Padel back down we must completely forget the notion of competition especially in large cities and push on the contrary for more places of practice.
I teach you nothing that's how it's started in Spain (legislation that has imposed a number of sports spaces for each building construction).
The more places you practice, the more you expose this sport to people who today unfortunately do not know it. It is a completely addictive sport, for the tennis players but also for the soccer players and even the non sportsmen. to become an addict you have to know it, and for that you need more places of practice.
The number of practitioners will continue to grow and when the market matures the opening number will be refined and there will also be some closures it's part of the game but I think for now we must support the creation of places to practice ... and animate them especially! Let's forget the lands without animation.
For tournaments it's another story .. I am not very passionate about the competition part even if I do it myself, I think that the crux of the problem really concerns the leisure practice, it is the essence of this sport and it is this base of practitioners that will make the padel will explode or not.
The competition will be the visible tip of the iceberg but 80% of the practitioners will be leisure, it is essential to animate the clubs.
This is my opinion of course;) Good luck
Hello Leo,
First of all thank you Julien for this very interesting article. Besides, I take this opportunity to congratulate the whole team. C top what you do.
As a tennis and soccer player, I have the impression that mistakes made by the FFT in the past in tennis may be repeated with the FFT. We are a bit at a crossroads.
I read on your site, an article on Sweden and I have the impression, even if it is only my opinion, that one should rather move towards the Swedish model.
The model of 4PADEL which you talk about regularly seems to me a good idea and an option because it can create players. And there are connections that can be made between sports. 100% clubs padel are also very interesting springboards for this sport.
But beware, In my IDF region, I do not think I'm a regular player. On the other hand, I realize that they are often the same competitors. As Leo says, the key is leisure. I define myself as the second case.
Sometimes, we have on the same zone, several competitions. Not easy for the player .... Are there enough pro / leisure competitions? I do not know. Clubs should be more self-regulating. Or, the FFT, should intervene to limit the number of competitions in an area for the good of clubs and players.
Ben