Pickleball Courts in La Prairie: ALÈS Expansion

Less known but more accessible than padel, pickleball has just found a place in Alès. The Alésien Tennis Club has just built four pickleball courts, a sport at the crossroads of tennis, padel and badminton, to be played in doubles, on its tennis court, to the right of the entrance to the La Prairie district.

“An equal“for the municipality and the club with 250 licensees, which was on the verge of bankruptcy only a year and a half ago. The opportunity to “meet up with family“for Karine Vélot, president of the TCA, who comes back to life thanks to patronage, subsidies and volunteers. The latter are the same who “make fries and record the registrations and put the TCA back in the correct meaning”, congratulates Éric Largeron, vice-president of the French Tennis Federation.

The Montpellier, in charge of the DTN in the territories, the competition, padel and associated practices, will provide the first initiations in the coming days.to launch a dynamic” : “I know it will take, almost as much as the padel, especially since it is much cheaper.”

The club and the municipality have “took the risk“pickleball, though”it wasn’t necessarily a request“, because this sport is accessible to “all ages, especially older ones“In this logic of democratization of tennis and its associated disciplines and revitalization of the discipline in the Alesian basin, Mayor Christophe Rivenq “engage” has “work to have real covered courts in the Agglo” et “do something for clay” of the five TCA courts and include it in the 2026 budget, as hoped by the 105-year-old club.

To find out the dates of the initiation days and the availability of land, follow the TCA.