There's nothing more like a match than padel than a game of padel. Does this observation sound obvious? Yes and no.

Nothing beats the match in the stands

Because seeing a match on your phone, your computer or even on a giant screen has nothing in common with the same match that you follow live, at the edge of the field. And when the pitch is the central court of the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, ​​the show is everywhere, on the track, in the stands, and even behind the scenes.

The difference is in the first place the speed of the ball, the speed of movement of the players or the height at which they are able to jump to recover a ball. But the difference is also and above all what the cameras – even if they offer slow motion as a bonus – do not show or grasp less well than the human eye.

We think here of this multitude of more or less harmless details, like one of the four collectors who suddenly falls from his chair when he sees a ball melting on him, these lobs which sometimes rise up to 15 meters in height in a room whose vault familiar with that of Gothic cathedrals, or even the referee's chair located more than four meters from the field, too far to allow always infallible decisions.

And then there are of course the reactions of the public, which we sometimes feel in a hurry to move on to the next match after more than three hours of a quarter-final yet thrilling, sometimes eager to ignite when an ultra-dominated pair offers a burst of resistance, promising a few more games, even a suspenseful 3rd set...

Reactions that we do not always perceive behind his screen

A public that asks only to commune during moments of madness, when a player – Juan Lebron in this case – is heroic in defense and concludes a point after having played a ball in his back, another between the legs. And then there is this unusual spectacle of seeing Lebron fall back into childhood for a moment, when he sends a lob in the bottom of the window, then freezes and puts his hand in front of his mouth, like a kid who made a big mistake. The next moment, he turns to his coach, incredulous, hoping not to be punished!

These are just a few examples among many of all that the “off camera” of cameras offers us, the real experience that nothing can replace. So many reasons not to settle for just one padel virtual on the small screen, but to come and admire the padel “bigger than life” offered to us by the top players on the occasion of major events in this sport.

After 40 years of tennis, Jérôme falls into the pot of padel in 2018. Since then, he thinks about it every morning while shaving… but never shaves pala in hand! Journalist in Alsace, he has no other ambition than to share his passion with you, whether you speak French, Italian, Spanish or English.

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