Ninety days of fire: it starts again in Madrid with eight Premier events and the FIP World Cup Pairs. And eyes on the Race…

Eight tournaments, the new FIP World Cup Pairs, the Finals in Barcelona. Qatar Airways Premier Padel is ready to restart in one fell swoop, with three and a half months that promise to be exciting all over the world. And it starts right away with a month not to be missed: four tournaments in five weeks, starting with the P1 in Madrid, then flying to Paris, home of the third Major of the season at Roland Garros, arriving in Dusseldorf, passing through Rotterdam and finally arriving in Milan, with the P1 in Italy two months earlier than previous editions.

The Race to the Finals will heat up, with the big names on the circuit competing for thousands of points to secure a place in Barcelona, including the 2,000 up for grabs in the FIP World Cup Pairs, the new event of the 2025 season: a World Cup for pairs whose protagonists will be decided based on their position in the FIP ranking after the P1 in Milan. The FIP World Cup Pairs will be played in Kuwait from 3 to 9 November and will feature a main draw of 48 pairs in the men’s competition and 40 in the women’s, made up of players of the same or different countries.

In the second half of 2025, the milestone of 1,000 players who have competed in at least one tournament since the inception of the Premier Padel circuit will be crossed: up to Tarragona, there were 966 (including 687 men since 2022 and 279 since 2023, the year the combined formula was established). This season, 33 men and 21 women have reached the semi-finals at least once, with Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia (8 titles) and Gemma Triay and Delfi Brea (6 tournaments won) respectively reigning supreme in the first part of the season. These results are reflected in the Race, which will take the top 16 female players and the top 16 male players to the Finals in Barcelona. The top positions are held by pairs that have not changed since the beginning of the year, with the same points: behind Coello/Tapia (9540) are Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan (8440), followed in fifth place by Franco Stupaczuk, who has 290 points more than Juan Lebron, his partner who has been sidelined by physical problems. Among the women, Gemma Triay and Delfi Brea (9600) lead the way, with Paula Josemaria and Ari Sanchez on 8390. And for the first time since the establishment of the Premier Padel women’s circuit, Paula and Ari will not be the number 1 seeds in Madrid. But, starting next week, new pages of history are ready to be written.