History Paddle.
Paddle The origins of the date of the last century (1890) and adapted games from the English ships, to entertain passengers. Later in 1924 the U.S. introduced the sport Frank Beal to New York City parks and gave the name "Paddle Tennis" by the palette that was used to play.
In 1928 he made some adjustments so that it can play in winter and were Fesseden Blanchardy and James Cogswell who decided to play the sport in pairs, installing wooden courts because this does not affect them over rough terrain and around the court with a grate so that no one was allowed to snow balls. In this sport was christened "Platform Tennis."
of this field is "Platform Tennis" where Don Enrique Corcuera took the idea and having no room in his home in Acapulco to build a regulation tennis court makes a number of adaptations and invented what some call the sport of XXI century.
measures the pitch of Don Enrique Corcuera are the same as those used so far: a surface area of \u200b\u200b200 square meters (20 X 10 m.) with two end walls with a minimum of three and a maximum of four meters high.
And not until 1993 when the sport returns to the country of his birth Acapulco, Mexico.
Alfonso de Hohenlohe in 1974 he traveled to Mexico at the invitation of his friend Enrique Corcuera. During his stay is interested in practicing a new sport that his friend had recently created, incorporating a pediment other opposite wall about 3 feet high, placing a net in the middle and closing costs of the track with a wire mesh. It was played with wooden pallets and was called paddle tennis.
His enthusiasm for this new sport was immediate, since Hohenlole Alfonso, on his return to Spain, and after studying and refining some details of the track and playing field, build the first two courts of Spain Marbella Club. Thus began promoting Paddle among his friends in the Jet-Set, who then became addicted.
The success achieved in the game soon attracted leading figures of tennis as Manolo Santana, who began organizing tournaments and spread the paddle on the Costa del Sol, where many clubs began to build their own tracks.
In 1975, a great friend of Alfonso de Hohenlohe, Marbella and frequent visitor, billionaire Julio Menditengui is witness to the success of paddle, and choose to import the sport to Argentina, where in a few years, he received an unprecedented boom now becoming days in the second most popular sport in this country, with over 2 million tracks and 10,000 players built throughout the territory. In recent years, the paddle has spread to other countries like Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, etc. with many fans. This influence has also reached North America where fans can already count among Americans and Canadians.
The first paddle tennis court, built by Henry.
In Spain, the paddle begins to expand to major cities and sports clubs of Madrid, Barcelona Andalusia, Galicia and the Basque Country. Establishing the infrastructure needed for this sport throughout the country and organizing the National Circuit Tournament to be held in the most prestigious clubs in the country.
On July 25, 1991, was established in Madrid the International Federation of Padel whose presidency falls on a English Artiach Julio Alegria, who was commissioned to create a circuit of international meetings and to conclude an international game rules.
In May 1993, the paddle took a decisive step for consolidation: the Sports Council agreed as recognition of paddle sport. A year later, approving the establishment of the English Association of Paddle registered in the Register of Sports Associations of the Higher Sports Council.
regional level, was founded in January 1992 the Association of Paddle Madrid, now recorded in the Register of Sports Associations of the Community of Madrid from the Directorate General of Sports. This is not the only autonomous region where there have been initiatives of this kind, in Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia, Andalusia and Extremadura Regional Chapters exist.
today to have been organized in our country seven editions of the National Tour Beefeater, countless matches between national teams at international level, four editions of the Regional Circuit de Madrid, various issues
Circuit Andalusian, Catalan and Basque (organized by their respective independent groups), and countless Open Tournament sponsored by the most prestigious companies in the country and organized by the federated clubs.
In 1992, the Club de Golf La Moraleja and Expo in Seville I developed the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PADDLE, with the participation of delegations from 11 countries in America and Europe. By 1996, Spain returned to host the III World Championship, held at the facilities of the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, which beat record participation of countries. Spain currently holds the title of Runner's World.
since 1993 are held in Spain (Madrid) International Championships of Spain in the facilities of the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, in the presence of the best players in the world. This tournament has become the most important internationally, both for its quality and the amount of awards.
Today, the paddle is spreading to different European countries, which have already formed their respective federations, which are achieving great success in the number of federal and construction, France, (which will host the next World in June 2000) Italy, Belgium, Britain and Austria. Spain in this sense has an important role in driving the paddle in Europe.
Despite being a relatively new sport and have some early elitist, paddle has become one of the ultimate racquet sport in our country. Easy and fun are the secrets of success.
Information taken from The Bible Paddle
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