Exploring the Differences: Professional Padel Courts vs Amateur Padel Courts

MENDOZA.– The stadium Aconcagua Sand vibrated practically full. The spectators shouted, coordinated chants, whistled, applauded. The public electrified the air of this concrete mass that takes its name from the highest peak in America, and that emulates it in its grandeur. The boveda that covers it has 7600 square meters (three quarters of a typical urban block); below, on a field of just 200 square meters, four players lit that powder keg that were the stands during the Mendoza Premier Fell. How different was that glass court, scene of the stars of this sport, to those where thousands and thousands of fans play paddle tennis in Argentina and the rest of the world? The same figures tell something that only they know: the differences between the “theaters” of the show of this sport and the club courts used by mere mortals.

“It’s not all as it seems,” he warns Juan Tellowho for the world of paddle tennis is “el Gato” and who emphasizes that no matter how fast the game is seen on the screens, On the court the spikes are very slow and only with great technique can the ball be accelerated so much. “From the outside it seems very easy to hit it so fast and take the ball out of the court or bring it back, but first you have to work a little… I think that the amateur today thinks “I’m going to practice hitting everything for three” [y sacarla de la cancha], but it is not only that. Even we, who are aggressive players, have not hit that much, ”says the Cordovan, who together with his partner, Alejandro Ruiz, reached a semifinal in Mendoza.

The Aconcagua Arena court, prepared for the Mendoza Premier Padel; blindex, a lot of space out of bounds, no sand and a deck below the floor are the characteristics that made it of the first international level. Premier Padel

There are more differences. Martin Di Nenno, born in the Ezeiza party, trains in a simpler place every time he is in Argentina. Before the Mendoza Premier Padel he recounted: “I arrived on a Sunday and trained on Monday and Tuesday at the club of my old. the court has brick walls [a diferencia de las profesionales de blíndex]. The grass Flying [por lo rápido]. Hay arena all over the place so you get a bit of a slip. The NEW has some parentheses that sometimes make the ball go anywhere… And it is like that. Not bad; there we form But if it is completely different from where we play now”.

Martín reached the final in Mendoza together with the chaqueño Franco Stupaczukwho added on the subject: “The main difference is the way out of the track. The clubs need to add more courts and they don’t have that space to play on the outside”. Franco, champion of the Mendoza Premier of 2022 (on that occasion, together with Pablo Lima), refers to the lateral space that is outside the field, and that the professionals use a lot, since they come out of the blindex rectangle to recover the ball and keep the game. Just like Mike Yaguas did to become “Superman”.

The spectacular fly of Mike Yaguas

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Mendoza Premier Fell

Since fans are rarely able to make such plays, clubs use that area for another purpose. “Then, a certain blow cannot be practiced anymore. If you play against a left-hander in a friendly at a club, he has all the advantage because he can serve the ball for three and there is no exit from the court … Being right-handed, that is difficult, ”says Stupazuck.

This chronicler had the opportunity to test the main court. From an amateur perspective, the greatest dissimilarity that is noted is that the synthetic grass is placed on a board that cushions the impactsunlike what happens in the conventional courtsin which the carpet is placed on a cement mat. In the case of the field for professionals, traveling through it feels like walking on a theater stage. Even, at hit the ball to serveyou have to give it a extra boostbecause otherwise, the rebound is very low.

And the other big distinction is that the carpet has no sand. The vast majority of synthetic grass courts used by amateurs do require this material.

A court for amateurs: brick, wire, little external margin, sand and cement under the artificial turf.Premier Padel

Of course, the main difference, beyond the surface, is in the ability of those who step on it. Another technique, another speed, another reading of the game.

Franco Stupaczuk and Martín Di Nenno, the “Superpibes” since their adolescence, faced off in a vibrant Mendoza Premier Padel final with Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia, at the Aconcagua Arena. And Agustín (winner 6-2 and 7-6 together with Coello) marks an advantage in the professional field that, beyond any economic investment, no amateur field will ever achieve: “What changes everything is the people. I I think that amateurs can’t finish imagining what it’s like to play with so many people, who screams, who goes crazy at every point. It is a unique feeling to be standing on the center courts”.

Conocé The Trust Project
2023-08-10 11:11:00
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