When we go down to the 66th page of the ranking of padel of the FFT, there are similar professional tennis players. What logic defines the place they occupy?

First of all, the principle of assimilating professional tennis players seems logical to us. Even if they do not have the time to play many tournaments, their athletic level and their skills as professional players, especially in the net, make them leave with a big advantage compared to many practitioners.

Proof of this is with the level displayed by Gaël Monfils, Arnaud Di Pasquale, or Arnaud Clement when they participated in P1000. The disputed question concerns the exact place to which they are assimilated and the reasons justifying it.

Gaël Monfils is assimilated number 50 in the FFT classification. If we base ourselves on his semi-final reached at the P1000 of Lyon alongside Robin Haziza in 2017, and this defeat in a close match against Aitor Garcia (117 WPT) and Justin Lopez (n ° 6 FFT), we say that this place is amply deserved. We still wonder if Jean-Noel Grinda, 83, or even Fabrice Pastor, both assimilated number 37, could have done as well ...

Arnaud Di Pasquale and Arnaud Clément, who also proven their worth on the slopes padel, are, like Gaël, assimilated to the 50th place (they were all n ° XNUMX40 two years ago). We can therefore logically think that the FFT retains the level of padel, demonstrated in tournaments, more than the ATP ranking. Indeed, Clément and Di Pasquale, who respectively reached 10th and 39th place at ATP, are now retired from tennis, far from the current 9th place of Monfils at ATP.

So it seems logical that Benoît Pair, less prominent than these three in tournaments padelEither assimilated 70th despite its 22nd place in the ATP ranking. Or Paul-Henri Mathieu, former number 12 at ATP, assimilated 200 in the ranking of padel FFT.

However how to explain that Jerome Inzerillo, recent winner of a P1000 with Max Moreau, and former 354th in singles at ATP, assimilated number 101, the place of a Hugo Pontico, a real unknown in the padel French, currently 1032nd in ATP singles, and who was best ranked 844th…?

Rest assured, this inconsistency is not the only one. Among professional players of padel we notice thatAitor Garcia, yet still No. 117 in the WPT, is assimilated to 16th place in the FFT ranking, when Max Moreau (161 WPT) and Robin Haziza (216 WPT), are respectively assimilated n ° 6 and n ° 10…

 

Xan is a fan of padel. But also rugby! And his posts are just as punchy. Physical trainer of several padel, he unearths atypical posts or deals with topical subjects. It also gives you some tips to develop your physique for the padel. Clearly, he imposes his offensive style as on the field of padel !

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