Chambly club stages 24-hour padel marathon, Meru Team wins unbeaten

Meru Team went unbeaten through New Padel Club de Chambly’s second 24H Padel, surviving a full day and night of one-hour matches to win a format built as much for stamina as for scorelines. The club packed 48 players into six teams of eight, then sent them through a round-robin challenge that kept play moving across its three courts without meaningful downtime.

That structure was the point. Instead of a bracket that quickly sends half the field home, Chambly kept every team in the mix hour after hour, forcing players to manage recovery, focus and substitutions while the night wore on. The result was less like a standard tournament and more like a continuous test of who could stay sharp when the body was asking for sleep and the next match was already on deck.

The winning side, Meru Team, did more than collect the last result of the weekend. It finished the entire event undefeated, which is a different kind of statement in a format where consistency matters more than one hot streak. In a 24-hour event, one bad hour can wreck a run; Meru Team avoided that trap and handled the long haul better than anyone else in the field.

The club’s gamble on format fits the larger shape of its business. New Padel Club opened on February 25, 2025 at 326 rue Henri Becquerel in Chambly, in the Portes de l’Oise business zone, with Claudia Inacio and Nelson Inacio behind the project. Local reporting put their investment at about €350,000, and the complex was built around four padel courts, including one singles court, plus space for pickleball and badminton and a clubhouse.

The club has also leaned on accessibility and volume. It operates daily from 6:00 a.m. to midnight, and early demand was strong, with more than 300 app downloads in about 15 days and 350 reservations in its first period. Nelson Inacio discovered padel in Portugal in 2011, and the club has acted on that experience by treating padel not just as court rental but as an event business, one that can turn a local facility into a destination.

That ambition was visible in the first 24H Padel, announced on April 21, 2025 and scheduled for May 24-25 at 326 rue Henri Becquerel. The inaugural edition was set to run from noon to noon, with food trucks, a bar, breakfast service, a relaxation area, Drone Soccer and prizes for finalists, and the entry price was listed at €65 per player. The second edition kept the same basic idea and proved the concept had legs: in Chambly, the format itself became the attraction.