FIP Senior World Cup: from Lamperti and Silingo to Sainz and Alonso, legends take to the court for the World Team Title

Talent knows no age. In fact, when players reach the Senior level in the men’s and women’s game, it becomes even more valuable: through the responsibility of being role models for new generations, through teaching and through legacy. And, naturally, on court, where the great players who have written important chapters in the history of our sport will compete for the men’s and women’s World Team titles. From today until Sunday 13 September, Buenos Aires will host the men’s qualifiers for the final phase of the fourth edition of the FIP Senior World Cup. The final phase will take place in the Argentine capital from 14 to 19 September. It will be a celebration of the recent history of padel, with Miguel Lamperti, Agustin Gomez Silingo, Lucia Sainz and Lorena Alonso among the names forming part of the 32 men’s teams and 26 women’s teams competing for the Senior World CUP title.

 

From Monday 14 September, matches from the FIP Senior World Cup final phase played on the Centre Court and Court 1 will be available to watch on the FIP YouTube channel.

 

FIRST TIME Argentina is hosting this competition for the first time in its history. Previous editions were held in Spain (La Nucia 2024 and Estepona and Benahavís 2018) and the United States (Las Vegas 2022). The FIP Senior World Cup has a strong legacy value, celebrating a particularly significant principle in the world of padel and helping to lay the foundations for the future of the sport. The attention paid by FIP and the national federations to more experienced athletes is a fundamental resource in the process of generational renewal and the global growth of padel.

 

THE CHAMPIONS AND THE CATEGORIES Spain in the women’s tournament and Argentina in the men’s tournament are the defending champions in a competition that promises to be a major showcase of technical and competitive quality, divided into generational categories. In Buenos Aires, each tie will be played over a maximum of five matches, with the +40, +45, +50, +55 and +60 categories taking to the court.

 

MEN’S QUALIFIERS Eleven national teams will compete over three days for one of the ten places in the final phase. The competition begins with the preliminary round: the winning team in each tie will qualify directly for the final phase, while the losing team will return to the court for another opportunity to qualify. The losers of Slovakia-Lithuania (Court 6) and Gibraltar-Poland (Court 7) will face each other in the next round. The loser of Venezuela-Ukraine (Court 5) will face Hong Kong. Austria-Croatia and Canada-Paraguay are the other pairings already confirmed. The qualifiers will conclude on Sunday 13 September, with the tie determining the final team to qualify for the final phase.

 

 

MEN’S FINAL PHASE A total of 32 national teams will compete in the final phase from Monday 14 to Saturday 19 September. The teams will be divided into 8 groups of 4. At the end of the group stage, a knockout phase will be played from the quarter-finals onwards to determine the following positions:

 

1st-8th place: the group winners

9th-16th place: the runners-up in each group

17th-24th place: the teams finishing third in each group

25th-32nd place: the teams finishing fourth in each group

 

These are the teams already qualified for the final phase:

 

Top Seeds: Argentina, Spain, France, Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, Chile and Mexico

Second tier: USA, Brazil, Belgium, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Ecuador

Third tier: Portugal, Uruguay, Great Britain, Egypt, Ireland and Japan

 

 

WOMEN’S FINAL PHASE A total of 26 national teams will compete over six days. The teams will be divided into 6 groups of 3 and 2 groups of 4. At the end of the group stage, a knockout phase will be played from the quarter-finals onwards to determine the following positions:

 

1st-8th place: the group winners

9th-16th place: the runners-up in each group

17th-24th place: the teams finishing third in each group

25th-26th place: the teams finishing fourth in Groups G and H

 

Here is the list of the 26 teams already qualified:

 

Top Seeds: Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, USA and Argentina

Second tier: Great Britain, Brazil, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, Chile, Mexico and Australia

Third tier: Japan, Ireland, Uruguay, Lithuania, Austria, Canada, Ecuador, Paraguay, Gibraltar and Switzerland