Roberta Ceccarelli, CEO of Bsg and Padel Best Expo: “the homage for the 2024 edition to Italian excellence has allowed many padel players to make themselves known to an international audience and to make agreements. Padel Best Expo was in fact a great show brought to success by networking. The courts installed inside and outside the Grimaldi Forum have attracted attention for their quality, versatility and design”.
The first edition of Padel Best Expo, which took place in Monte-Carlo in recent days in conjunction with the Rolex Master, concluded with the gala dinner at Twiga, which saw the awarding of the winning couples of the five Givova Five Padel Cup tournaments. , with a tribute to Italy for the launch of the event. Every year, in fact, Padel Best Expo will dedicate a focus to a nation, in agreement with the various federations, and the 2025 edition will be dedicated to France.
Inside the Grimaldi Forum, the three days of matches, presentations, comparisons and business saw the excellence of Made in Italy as protagonists within a truly international padel village, where the professional athletes of FIP RISE Monaco (CUPRA FIP TOUR), football stars and VIPs, young promises, athletes in wheelchairs, amateur athletes, specialized companies and passionate visitors from all over the world, have created an event full of fun, inclusion and solidarity.
Three padel courts set up indoors, one of which was created by combining different materials such as wood and metal and presented as a world premiere at the Padel Best Expo, and two outdoor courts including one dedicated to pickleball, a racket sport that combines tennis , padel, badminton and table tennis. The homage to Italy in this first edition was strongly desired by Bsg, the Italian company that conceived, organized and promoted the international exhibition.
“The companies involved in this edition, in addition to enjoying moments of valorisation created specifically for each of them in the physical location and online, found themselves in a real community and had the opportunity to network in a very direct and also effective thanks to the program of events designed to encourage exchanges, network and make agreements. The courts installed inside and outside the Grimaldi Forum have attracted attention for their quality, versatility and design. I want to thank again the Bsg team who worked intensely on the project, the athletes and technical directors, the exhibitors, the football stars, the doctors and professionals who participated in the Padel Forum and of course the sponsors who believed in the project and contributed to its success and who have already confirmed their participation in the next edition. The enthusiasm perceived during these three days was for us the clearest sign that work was being done in the right direction. For this reason we have already announced the 2025 edition”, declared Roberta Ceccarelli, CEO of Bsg and Padel Best Expo.
The football stars were the protagonists together with managers, young promises, athletes in wheelchairs, amateur athletes of the Givova Five Padel Cup, a competition with a strong social and competitive power, which saw the participation of, among others, Dario Marcolin, Gigi Di Biagio, Ciro Ferrara , Marco Borriello, Fabio Cannavaro, Sebastien Frey, Aron Winter, Nelson Dida, Sébastien Frey, Fabio Quagliarella, Fernando Orsi, Cristian Zaccardo, Paolo Cannavaro and the Barbagiuans of Monaco, an inclusive football team from the Principality of which Louis Ducruet, nephew of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. Also on the pitch was Golden Ball winner Andriy Shevchenko, present as Ambassador for the Football for Ukraine charity organization which, together with Fight Aids, is a Charity Partner of Padel Best Expo.
The winners of the five tournaments were Barbagiuans Jordan Klein and Manuel Vallorio for the VIP/Manager tournament, Stephan Vouifour and Olivier Desbois for the Club tournament, Marco Cambronero and Oscar Agea for the Wheelchair Padel tournament, Andrea Pitarch and Paula Boixader for the Women’s Amateur tournament and finally the couple Luca Pavan and Jacopo Menegazzo for the Generation Z tournament.
The Spaniards Daniel Santigosa and Guillermo Collado won the Monegasque stage of the FIP RISE Monaco of the CUPRA FIP TOUR.