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 Under 18 ..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 tim ..read more

There are two top 100 players at the start of FIP Rise Dubai, a stage on the CUPRA FIP Tour scheduled in the United Arab Emirates, where padel is growing fast. In the men’s draw, the highest-ranked player is Sergio Icardo (95), paired with Francisco Jurado, while the number 2 seeded players are France’s Jerome Inzerillo and Manuel Vives, ranked 131 and 156 respectively. Among the women, however, leading the entry list is Lucia Perez Parra (94), paired with Laura Luján Rodríguez (126), followed by Portugal’s Catarina Castro Vilela (141) and France’s Wendy Barsotti (125). On Thursday the first ..read more

Every tournament on the Premier Padel circuit has its own fairy tale. In Acapulco it is the turn of Daniel Santigosa, 20, who has already won two CUPRA FIP Tour titles in this 2024, both in Gothenburg (Sweden), and who last year won two gold medals at the European Games in Krakow with the Spanish national team: having started from the qualifiers paired with Miguel Gonzalez, in the second round of the GNP Mexico P1 he defeated 6-2 6-3 Victor Ruiz and Lucas Bergamini (9), earning the big challenge with Juan Lebron and Ale Galan (2), who needed to win back a set from Bautista/Munoz by closing 2 ..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 –, Art ..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 inhabi ..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 Collomb ..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 fact ..read more

Second title in a row in the CUPRA FIP Tour in Chile for Gianina Minieri and Gabriela Roux Vidal. After their success last February in Viña del Mar, the two Chilean players also lifted the trophy in the FIP Promotion in Santiago, thanks to a two-set victory in the final over Silvana De Angelis Marcolini and Maria Florencia Ernandorena with a score of 6-3 6-4. For the two players, this is the sixth CUPRA FIP Tour tournament they have won in their careers, allowing them to gain 39 points in the FIP ranking and enter the top 200, exactly at number 166. The post FIP Promotion Santiago, Minieri-Ro ..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 Rumors ..read more