The captain of the France team padel gentlemen, Alexis Salles, looks back on this wonderful evening yesterday at the world padel in Asuncion where France reaches the semi-finals against Argentina:

Unprecedented qualification of the French team of Padel for the semi-finals of the world championship currently taking place in Ascension, Paraguay.

What an incredible meeting that saw the French team win against Uruguay in a decisive match won by Scat and Robin (Jeremy Scatena and Robin Haziza).

The match had started the worst scenario, however, as our French champions Jo and Bastien (Johan Bergeron and Bastien Blanqué) delivered a magnificent battle that they lost 4 / 6 7 / 6 7 / 6 after having 3 match balls in the 2nd set and 3 other match balls in the 3eme set in a very "hot match" South American atmosphere!

But Jo and Bastien have come up against 1 very strong team led by his top player Diego Ramos who has a great experience of the high level!

It is in this complicated context that our current numbers 1 and 2 French Adrien and Benjamin (Adrien Maigret and Benjamin Tison) returned to the field for a match that could become decisive in case of defeat.

They approached this meeting with great conviction and immediately behaved as "bosses" on the ground!

Very big performance from Ben and Adri who won 6/2 7/5 by playing a Padel very aggressive and very creative. It was written that nothing could stop us anymore and our 2 experienced players Scat and Robin made a huge match by winning 6/2 6/4.

Mention Very good to our 2 substitutes Max and Mathieu for their exemplary behavior and for all that they bring to the group.

See you tomorrow at 17h (21h French time) for our semi-final against the magic Argentine team and its armada of stars! Go France

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.