Big week for the Raquette player, Robin Semal, who alternated between tennis and padel tournaments. “I played in M1 (eliminated in qualifications) and M2 (winner of a 100% Wavrian final against Aurélien Senepart) after almost a year off tennis. This week, I therefore played 6 tennis matches and 3 padel matches (with Arnaud Destrebecq, defeat in the final, editor’s note).Even if I had a bit of a hard time physically, the club is known for its atmosphere on and off the pitch, and that’s why I do tournament.”
Over the years, the 32-year-old has become more involved in padel. “I have always been hooked on racket sports: tennis, badminton, table tennis, squash. When I was little, my parents put me on a tennis court, they saw that I liked it and I So I started at 5 and kept going, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little lessspecifies the one who played for twenty years at Parival before following friends to La Raquette. I fell in love with padel when I discovered it during a tennis tournament in Portugal 6-7 years ago. At the time, nobody knew the discipline in Belgium. Back home, I signed up for Waterloo, which was the first Belgian padel club. Since the end of my studies (he works in the field of IT), I have been much more focused on padel and I only play interclub tennis in addition to a few tournaments.
According to him, the two disciplines are “complementary up to a certain level. It’s the same point counts and the same balls that you have to pass over the net. Afterwards, I find padel less technical but more tactical and a little less physical also in the in the sense that you have to be very physically strong in tennis to pass a course. Which suits me quite a bit because I don’t have a very powerful build.”
Is it possible to combine the two? “I’m not one of the best in tennis, even if it allowed me to study in the United States, but I know a lot of people who are in the best Belgians in padel and still series A in tennis Afterwards, if you want to play tennis and padel at a high level, it requires sacrifices because you have to be physically up to it and have the motivation.”
His goals for the future? “Trying to get the title in national 4 with my interclub tennis team. At the padel level, I would like to evolve more. With my fixed partner, Tanguy Montoisy, the goal is to grab points in the ranking My dream would be to join the national team but I know it will be complicated.”
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2023-08-22 08:01:00
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