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initiative qui me tient énormément à cœur, et que je m’évertuerai toujours incluant un stade de padel en supplément des pistes annexes de padel,
à poursuivre. Nous avons à ce jour 16 joueurs que nous sponsorisons tennis, mais aussi une piscine extérieure et intérieure, un club house,
et qui défendent à chaque tournoi, fièrement les couleurs de Monte terrain de football, hockey, beach volley et piste d’athlétisme…
Carlo International Sports. »
Entrepreneur ayant plusieurs cordes à son arc, Fabrice Pastor a également
Et qui dit développement du padel dit investissement dans des clubs. développé en 2020 en association avec le Chef Mauro Colagreco, un
« Après le développement de notre club à Beausoleil – Tennis Padel concept traiteur dénommé BYO qui se situe au sein du marché couvert
Soleil situé au Stade du Devens (Beausoleil) qui compte actuellement 2 de la Condamine. Cet espace traiteur « propose une carte gourmande
terrains couverts de Padel, 3 en extérieur mais aussi 5 terrains de tennis et authentique, disponible sur place, à emporter ou en livraison. Nous
et 2 stades de tennis couverts approuvés par l’ATP –, nous lançons un allons prochainement ouvrir la boulangerie Mitron Bakery, juste à côté,
projet exceptionnel en Argentine ». Situé à Rosario (Province de Santa et proposer des pains à base de farine bio composée à partir de blés
Fe), ce nouvel équipement sportif aura une superficie de 14.500 m , anciens », annonce Fabrice Pastor.
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Former professional padel player, Fabrice Pastor, has mixed pleasure with
business in creating Monte-Carlo International Sports (MCIS), which sponsors
16 current players.

Monte-Carlo International Sports: “Growth potential for

the sport of padel is very good”

Having first tried the sport “out of curiosity”,
padel became a way of life and a business
for Fabrice Pastor. His sporting career led to
the professional circuit and he even became
the world number 69: “It was a hobby that
became a real passion – one which I decided
to transform into a business so that I could help
the sport develop,” says the CEO of Monte-Carlo
International Sports. The first step came in 2015
when the entrepreneur set up his company, MCIS,
organising sporting events, selling equipment
and sponsoring players. “Our breadth of activity
gets wider each year, which shows that growth
potential for the sport is very good. For it to
become a professional competition, the sport
certainly needs to be developed but there also
need to be infrastructures and economic models where the sport was born in the 1970s. “The us to come back in 2021 with a stronger
in place,” assesses the businessman who, in adventure started off with two tournaments, image, more modern and that meets the
2015, launched the Fabrice Pastor Cup, “in one in Merida and one in Acapulco, which was expectations of the public,” believes the MCIS
order to find future international padel talent.” held during the ATP 500. A few weeks later, founder. During this period, agreements and
The competition, organised in seven countries the global Covid-19 pandemic unfortunately sponsorship deals were signed and Babolat
(Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Paraguay, forced us to cancel the whole 2020 calendar. now provides the official balls for the APT
Portugal and Uruguay), makes its big come- It was a blow for the whole organisation, as Padel Tour. “We are also about to start
back in 2021. well as for the players. However, we did make marketing APT Padel Tour/Babolat shoes
the most of the months we were at a standstill and we have renewed our agreement with our
International tour launched just before by working even harder on our development official equipment provider, Royal Padel, with
pandemic strategy. We kept in touch with our partners whom we have designed a unique collection
MCIS launched the international APT Padel and we completely over-hauled our identity of sports clothes and racquets,” announces
Tour in January 2020 in Mexico, the country and image. This brand transformation allowed Fabrice Pastor.

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