Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Kuwait and Australia qualify for the Final 8. Decisive stage gets under way on tuesday

JAKARTA – The line-up for the FIP Junior Asia Padel Cup Final 8, currently taking place in Jakarta (Indonesia), is now complete. Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Kuwait and Australia secured the last four available places by winning their respective men’s qualifying groups. The final stage of the competition dedicated to Asia’s NextGen will begin on Tuesday 10 November and conclude on Saturday 14 November. Eight men’s teams and six women’s teams will compete at the Pluit Padel Parq for the titles on offer. The group stage (Drawn today) will take place from 10 to 12 November, followed by the knockout rounds. As in the qualifying stage, the Final 8 format provides for three matches in each tie, across the Under 14, Under 16 and Under 18 categories, using a round-robin format: the first team to secure two wins takes the tie.

 

MEN’S FINAL 8 GROUPS Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Kuwait and Australia join the four teams that had already qualified on the basis of the 2024 FIP Junior Asia Padel Cup rankings: defending champions Japan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The eight teams were drawn into two groups. The top two teams in each group will qualify for the semi-finals, where they will compete for places from first to fourth, while the remaining teams will play to determine the final standings from fifth to eighth.

 

Group A: Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Kuwait

Group B: United Arab Emirates, Iran, Kazakhstan and Lebanon

 

WOMEN’S FINAL STAGE GROUPS While the men’s event included a qualifying stage, the six places in the women’s competition had already been allocated to Australia, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand. The national teams were divided into two groups of three. The top two teams in each group will qualify for the semi-finals to compete for the title and places from first to fourth, while the two third-placed teams will face each other to determine fifth and sixth place.

 

Group A: Australia, the Philippines and Iran

Group B: Indonesia, Thailand and Japan

 

FINAL PHASE – DAY 1 SCHEDULE Six matches will be played on the opening day of the final stage. The women’s draw will get the day’s programme under way, with Indonesia-Japan and Australia-Iran starting at 11 am local time. The afternoon session, featuring the men’s matches, will begin no earlier than 2 pm local time: Japan-Australia, Saudi Arabia-Kuwait, United Arab Emirates-Kazakhstan and Iran-Lebanon. The matches will be available on the International Padel Federation’s YouTube channel.