Horacio Álvarez Clementi

Horacio Álvarez Clementi is a retired Argentine padel player, born in Buenos Aires in 1958, who is remembered as one of the sport's great promoters. He grew up playing tennis and took up padel at 28, during the boom of the 1980s in Argentina. In 1988, 1989 and 1990 he formed the number one pair of Argentine and world padel with Alejandro Lasaigues, and in 1992 he was part of the Argentine team that won the first World Padel Championship. He helped found the first Argentine padel association in 1987, created the first courses for padel coaches, and later trained leading players including Fernando Belasteguín and Pablo Lima.