Whether it’s football, rugby, handball, volleyball or any other sport, becoming a world champion always makes your eyes shine. Jean-Baptiste Marx was in this case in the summer of 2025 when he became racketeon world champion in Rotterdam (Netherlands).
“That’s a lot of time spent on the field trying to progress in sports, and it’s still quite satisfying to get results“, he still savors today.
What is racketeering?
But a question arises: what is racketeering? It is a mixture of four racket sports from the smallest to the largest: table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis. During the world competition, you must reach 21 points each time to win. A discipline which, therefore, requires versatility and regularity to achieve results. And this is what happened to Jean-Baptiste Marx.
“It rewards versatile players like me a little because it’s true that there is still this side where you have to move from one racket to another. When you switch from table tennis to badminton, it still has nothing to do with it. Same, we say that these are racquet sports and you can feel it, but in the end, already in badminton, there aren’t even balls. In table tennis there are spins, while in squash there are no. You have to adapt quite quickly“, explains the 27-year-old man who is a member of the Avignon badminton club.
A hell of a mixture which required effort from the Vauclusian to climb to the top of the world in table “D”.
World champion “C” in August 2026?
“It’s still a titlecorroborates the Vauclusian. But it was especially hard because it was a 64-player table. The competition lasted three days and there were two matches per day. Hence the need to be constant because it is not easy.”
But Jean-Baptiste Marx achieved his goals. Now reigning world champion, he is automatically qualified for the next edition which will take place again in Rotterdam from August 5 to 9, 2026.
“Now, the goal is to do the same in table “C”, and try to get to “A” to compete against the best players in the world“, announces the Avignon resident.
“A winner is someone who has identified their talents, worked hard to develop them, and used those abilities to accomplish their goals.“, said basketball player Larry Bird, three-time NBA winner and Olympic champion (1992). Jean-Baptiste Marx is one of them.
