France dominate FIP Promises Koksijde with three youth titles

France left FIP Promises Koksijde with three of the four youth titles, turning a weekend in Belgium into a clear marker of how quickly its junior padel pipeline is maturing. On the four outdoor match courts in Koksijde, the French winners were Titouan Ashard and Marin Le Saux in boys’ U12, Juan Segura and Lucas Terminet in boys’ U14, and Loris Morvan with Elliot Verraghen in boys’ U18, while Belgium’s Jolien Temmermans and Elisa De Vleeschouwer took the girls’ U16 crown.

The most convincing French result came from the oldest boys’ final, where Morvan and Verraghen recovered after dropping the first set 7-5, then closed out the match 6-3, 10-1. That comeback fit the tone of the tournament for France: not only were the pair winning, they were winning under pressure, the kind of response that tends to separate developing talent from players ready for the next level of international competition.

Segura and Terminet were the headline pairing in the U14 draw, and their Koksijde title carried more weight than a single weekend of form. Padel Magazine noted that Segura’s win was his sixth FIP Promises title, while Terminet’s was his second, which puts their progress in a far more advanced lane than a one-off breakthrough. The duo had already won in Ghent before arriving in Koksijde, beating Dutch, English and Belgian top pairs along the way, a run that suggests a team learning how to travel, adapt and close out draw after draw.

France’s sweep also shows how the FIP Promises structure is sharpening the sport’s development ladder. The Koksijde event ran from July 3 to July 5, with finals on July 5, as part of the official youth circuit for boys and girls in U12, U14, U16 and U18. The FIP now divides its 2026 Promises ranking by continent, across Africa, America, Asia and Europe, a sign that junior padel is becoming a more organized global pathway rather than a loose collection of local events.

That matters because Koksijde is no longer just a good week for a few French juniors. It is evidence that France is producing depth across several age groups at once, with players like Ashard, Le Saux, Segura, Terminet, Morvan and Verraghen all arriving in the same tournament ready to win. Segura and Terminet will next carry that form into FIP Promises Paris by WME Sports as fifth seeds, with Belgium’s cleanest youth stage already behind them.