The FIP Promises circuit, reserved for young players, makes a stop in Son en Breugel (Netherlands) at the weekend, with 25 pairs at the start divided into five draws, three of which will be played with the round robin formula and two with the knockout one. Among the Under 14s, Belgians Gabriel Fontaine and Abel Callebaut will advance directly to the second round, while among the Under 16s, Dutchmen Pieter Hermus Jr and Daan Jens lead the entry list, in a draw that also includes two Brazilians, Thiago Henrique Gasparin Santos and Ulisses Gianello Neto.   Three Dutch pairs will be in the Un ..read more

The news coming from GNP Mexico P1 is that there will be a new winning pair in the women’s draw. The eternal Ana Catarina Nogueira (45) and Bea Caldera defeated Paula Josemaria and Ari Sanchez, who had so far won every match of the season and lifted the trophy in both Riyadh and Doha. A hard-fought match that lasted over two hours and ended in a double tiebreak in favour of the Portuguese and the Spaniard gave to Nogueira/Caldera access to the quarter-finals of the Acapulco tournament. Already in Doha, also in the round of 16, Paula and Ari had suffered against this pair for one set. This time ..read more

The GNP Mexico P1 gets into full swing today, with the debut of the world’s best pairs, ready to play for their third Premier Padel title of the season after those in Riyadh and Doha. From next week, however, for many pairs it will be like living a new life, with some changes already planned for the P2 in Puerto Cabello. But how will the geography of the FIP ranking change with the new pairs? Adding up the points of the individual players at the publication of the ranking on 18 March – the data used in the formation of the International Padel Federation ranking, unified since this year –, Artu ..read more

This weekend, the CUPRA FIP Tour makes a stop in Dubai, with a FIP Rise scheduled from Thursday to Sunday. The United Arab Emirates, along with Saudi Arabia, is the Asian country with the largest number of padel clubs (more than 320) and courts (more than 950): 30 per cent of all courts in Asia are located in the Middle Eastern country, and an estimated 250,000 fans and around 500,000 followers on social media. According to the FIP Research & Data Analysis Department, after Bahrain the UAE is the country with the best court-to-population ratio on the continent (one court per 10,000 inhabit ..read more

If the world‘s best players, during the media day, expressed many words of thanks to the organisation for having put them in the best conditions to play after Hurricane Otis hit Acapulco in October, on the first day of the GNP Mexico P1 the first results arrived. In the women’s draw, some of the world’s strongest pairs have already taken the court. Gemma Triay and Claudia Fernandez (3), in their second tournament together after losing the final in Doha, gave up only three games to Barrera/Caparros (6-2 6-1), but good wins also came for the other top seeds Salazar/Icardo (double 6-1 to Collombo ..read more

Acapulco, home of the GNP Mexico P1, is the city where it all began. It was there in 1969 that the Mexican tycoon Enrique Corcuera, in order to try and exploit an outdoor space in his home and not having enough surface area to build a tennis court, decided to set up a structure enclosed by walls and metal netting, unknowingly creating the first padel court in history. But Mexico is an important country for padel not only because it was the first in which padel was practised, but because in the last years it’is one of the nations on the American continent with the highest growth rate.   In ..read more

Pol Hernandez Alvarez flew around the world in one week. After triumphing in the FIP Promotion in Alicante, he took a flight to Chile and also won the FIP Rise in Santiago.   If in Spain he had won with Ramiro Valenzuela, Hernandez this time lifted the trophy paired with Dylan Demian Cuello, at the end of a balanced final won 6-4 5-7 6-1. Hernandez/Cuello also needed three sets in the semifinals to defeat Zurita/Dip Nazar with a score of 6-7 6-4 7-5. The post FIP Rise Santiago, another title for Hernandez appeared first on Padel FIP ..read more

After Hurricane Otis, which had cancelled the tournament scheduled to take place in November, padel is back to life in Acapulco, in the city where this sport was born. An extraordinary effort by the Mexican Padel federation and the tournament organisation to revive the arena hosting the GNP Mexico P1, the third event of a season that began with the Riyadh Season P1 and continued in Doha with the Oooredoo Qatar Major. The professional Premier Padel circuit from this year unified – as the FIP ranking – therefore moves to Central America and, next week, to the South with the P2 in Puerto Cabello ..read more

Not only the men’s FIP Rise; this weekend, the Mas Padel Santa María in Santiago (Chile) is also hosting a women’s FIP Promotion tournament, with 12 pairs on court. Leading the entry list are Chile’s Gabriela Roux Vidal and Gianina Minieri, who are looking for their second victory on the CUPRA FIP Tour 2024 after having already triumphed in Viña del Mar in February.   On the other side of the draw are Kimberley Ahumada Carrasco (finalist in Viña del Mar paired with Catalina Arancibia) and Belen Tajmuch Poblete. Four pairs advance directly to the quarter-finals, while the other eight will ..read more

After Riyadh and Doha, it’s time for Premier Padel to land in Central and South America. For the world professional circuit governed by the International Padel Federation it will be another two unmissable weeks: first the P1 in Acapulco (18-24 March), then the P2 in Puerto Cabello (25-31), presented today at a press conference with local authorities – such as mayor Juan Carlos Betancourt –, the tournament organisers – tournament director Pablo Velazco and Benito Pérez Barbadillo representing the Do Sport Group and manager, among others, of Rafa Nadal –, and also attended by FIP president Luigi ..read more