Yann Perrin, the former French n°4 and World Top 50 squash player returns for Padel Magazine on his new passion: the padel.

We took advantage of the second edition of the Sports Management Trophy at the Grand Stade Les Capellans in Saint-Cyprien to interview this new player from padel who trains on the All In side Padel Sports at Bouc-Bel-Air.

Squashers will have some facilities at the padel

Squash players who pass padel will certainly have some facilities such as playing with the windows. It's a racket sport: the placement, the relationship with the ball will allow us to have fun quickly padel and take advantage of the rich panoply of moves there are padel.

But the padel remains a different sport. The bounce of the ball is not the same. We adapt quickly but it remains a sport apart.

I signed up for All In Padel Sports a little by chance thanks to a friend last summer.

I am a national squash coach at the Pôle France in Aix-en-France, I had little time. And since Christmas, I'm really starting to get into it. I have become a very regular player, I think I play at least four times a week.

A great atmosphere

I think that I evolve in this sport, in my way of playing, in understanding. The fact of having been in this club with Stephane Massot meant that I was very well received. The world is small: Steph knows Philippe Signoret, the coach of the French ladies' squash team for many years.

I think the atmosphere around this sport is great, you just have to see the group I came with for the Trophée Gestion Sports, it's very appreciable.

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At the start, squash and padel are the opposite in terms of physical intensity

One of the differences between squash and padel, it's the start. THE padel will be physically more accessible because in reality the more we will evolve in this sport, the more it will become intense. In squash, it's almost the opposite. Anyone starting out in squash can find themselves in the red very quickly because they don't know where to place themselves.

The squash player while evolving will learn to manage his effort, to get tired when necessary. At padel, to get tired, I have the impression that you have to go through stages.

In squash, the ball is always good in the end, there is no grid, no net. And if you don't have a sufficient level, it can be very complicated physically.

Au padel, precisely, it is less forgiving in the game, there are more faults, there are two of us, and even when you are regular, you have to be able to aim well to really make your opponents move. But the further you go, the more precise you become and the more physical it becomes.

squash and padel can be at the Olympics

squash and padel are great sports. They both deserve to be in the Olympics. Squash has been hoping for this for a very long time. For the moment, we are at the World Games which are the equivalent of the Olympic Games for the sports which have not yet entered the Olympics.

We play squash in incredible places, facing the pyramids, in front of New York's central station...

I think that if squash is not yet an Olympic sport, it is because the Olympic Games are attracted by the money. We know it well, we brought in break dancing, golf, these are sports that have succeeded in winning the Olympic Games because there is money. This is the world today.

There is also a very spectacular side to the padel, with a variation of strokes. In squash, it is also the case but it looks different.

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.

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