The padel is back at Roland-Garros.
After mid-July last year, the Parisian stage of the Premier Padel Tour, the circuit led by the president of PSG Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, will put its rackets in the west of the capital from September 4 to 10, 2023. A event classified in the Majors category (equivalent to the Grand Slams in tennis) where the winning pair will receive 525,000 euros in prize money.
The organizers communicated this Friday the list of the eight events (at least) which will make up the season.
This will start in Doha (February 26 - March 5) and end in Milan (December 4 to 10), via Italy, Egypt or Mexico.
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– Premier Padel (@premierpadel) February 3, 2023
Last year, thanks to an aggressive pricing policy in the middle of summer, the competition attracted 25,000 people to the aisles of the Porte d'Auteuil.
Come to discover the discipline but also to enjoy the place in a very different atmosphere from the end of May, when Nadal and others put on the show.
"One of the key events of the new school year"
"After the success of the first edition in which all the best players in the world competed on the Philippe-Chatrier court, we are delighted to continue our partnership with Premier Padel and confirm the second edition of the Greenweez Paris Premier Padel Major. which stands out as one of the major events of international padel, explains Arnaud Di Pasquale, sector manager at the FFT.
With these new dates at the beginning of September, we want to make this great padel meeting one of the key events of the new school year by allowing as many people as possible to come and admire a quality sporting spectacle while taking advantage of the last fine days and long summer evenings in the superb setting of the Roland-Garros Stadium.
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Between 4,500 and 5,000 fans, including a certain Zinedine Zidane, a fan of the discipline, had attended the victory of the pair of world No. 1 Galan / Lebron over the Central.
“It is an engraved moment.
Winning Roland-Garros in such a symbolic place, it really represents something really special, Juan Lebron told us on Thursday, on the sidelines of an exhibition in Montreuil.
People talk to me about it a lot.
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The French Federation wishes to highlight the practice, in particular by promoting the construction of tracks with the ambition of seeing 2,000 in France by the end of the year.