00:00Hello everyone and welcome back to Gulf News Presents Paddle with Adil
00:04and in today's episode it's a very special one because we're here at this beautiful property
00:09Ritz Carlton Abu Dhabi and today I've come here for the opening of the Emirates Paddle Centre
00:15Now it's going to be an eventful night because there are a lot of people affluent people from
00:32the local community at the same time there are a lot of people who have come from the
00:35international community so hopefully we'll be getting a chance to be meeting some of them
00:39and seeing what's happening over here Emirates Paddle has opened five paddle tennis courts over
00:45here along with Bella. Bella is the number one in paddle tennis he's come down for the inauguration
00:50and here they've launched the Bella Paddle coaching academy as well and that's something
00:54exciting for the community in Abu Dhabi I think the place is fantastic so follow me and see what's
01:00in store. Can you tell us a little bit about Emirates Paddle? Emirates Paddle is an idea that
01:05started with Nasser we started together this project about one and a half year ago and we
01:11were thinking to how to say help from outside to make the sport grow in the UAE so then we
01:18were considering the possibility to open some paddle facilities and somehow we we want in the
01:23future to be involved in the project as well like for tour and tournaments and stuff like that.
01:28We're in this beautiful venue which is the Ritz Carlton Abu Dhabi and we have a lot of prominent
01:33people today can you tell us a little about today's event? It's a very special event for us
01:38it's our first grand opening and it's good to have all of you here.
01:47What is your association with Emirates Paddle?
02:03We're very happy to have Emirates Paddle like a partner because for us it's very important
02:11to have this company and the people that who is behind this company you know to develop the
02:16paddle in UAE and this is the is the first occasion to opening the first Vela Paddle
02:24concept in the world and he is very happy to have these partners and to begin to work to develop
02:29the paddle in UAE. I'm happy to see all the players all the famous players like Abella one
02:37one of the best in the world I want to say thanks for everyone to show up here.
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