{"id":328225,"date":"2026-05-24T19:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/?p=328225"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:21:20","slug":"fip-platinum-albania-draws-announced-skanderbeg-square-in-tirana-welcomes-the-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/2026\/05\/fip-platinum-albania-draws-announced-skanderbeg-square-in-tirana-welcomes-the-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"FIP Platinum Albania, draws announced: Skanderbeg Square in Tirana welcomes the champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tirana\u2019s iconic <strong>Skanderbeg Square<\/strong> has been transformed into a large padel village, with four courts \u2013 and free admission \u2013 hosting the <strong>FIP Platinum Albania<\/strong> from Tuesday to Saturday, the second event in the most prestigious category of the <strong>CUPRA FIP Tour<\/strong>. Nineteen players from the top 30 of the men\u2019s FIP ranking and 14 from the top 30 of the women\u2019s FIP ranking will compete in an event that represents a major opportunity to promote padel in Albania. The tournament is organised through a collaboration between the International Padel Federation and the <strong>Albanian Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Culture<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEN <\/strong>There will be 28 pairs competing in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s draws, with the top four seeded pairs entering the competition directly in Wednesday\u2019s round of 16. The top-seeded pair in the entry list is <strong>Franco Stupaczuk<\/strong> and <strong>Mike Yanguas<\/strong>, who will debut against either <strong>Luis Hernandez<\/strong> and <strong>Javi Martinez<\/strong> or <strong>Jos\u00e9 Diestro<\/strong> and <strong>Nacho Piotto<\/strong>. In the opposite half of the draw are <strong>Coki Nieto<\/strong> and <strong>Jon Sanz<\/strong>, who will face either <strong>David Gala <\/strong>and <strong>Enzo Jensen <\/strong>or <strong>Alvaro Melendez<\/strong> and <strong>Jos\u00e9 Luis Gonzalez<\/strong>. <strong>Rubini\/Sanchez<\/strong> or <strong>Arce\/Arroyo<\/strong> for <strong>Javi Leal<\/strong> and <strong>Fran Guerrero<\/strong> (3), while <strong>Martin Di Nenno<\/strong> and <strong>Jairo Bautista<\/strong> (4) will meet either a qualifying pair or <strong>Zapata\/Dominguez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WOMEN<\/strong> <strong>Ale Salazar<\/strong> and <strong>Ale Alonso<\/strong> are the top-seeded pair in the women\u2019s tournament. They will begin against either a qualifying pair or <strong>Anastasiia Rhyzova<\/strong> and <strong>Camila Fassio<\/strong>; <strong>Marina Guinart<\/strong> and <strong>Veronica Virseda<\/strong> (2), meanwhile, will face <strong>Ana Cristina Sanchez<\/strong> and <strong>Marcella Koek<\/strong> or another pair from the qualifiers. Completing the quartet of seeded pairs receiving a first-round bye are <strong>Bea Caldera<\/strong> and <strong>Carmen Goenaga<\/strong> (3, debut against <strong>Luttikhuis\/Parmigiani<\/strong> or <strong>Vano\/Clasc\u00e0<\/strong>) and <strong>Aranzazu Osoro<\/strong> and <strong>Victoria Iglesias<\/strong> (4, opening match against <strong>Fernandez\/Guerra<\/strong> or wild cards <strong>Torssell\/Albuquerque<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying will conclude on Monday; from Tuesday 26 to Saturday 30, the main draw will take centre stage, with 300 FIP ranking points awarded to the winning pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tirana\u2019s iconic Skanderbeg Square has been transformed into a large padel village, with four courts \u2013 and free admission \u2013 hosting the FIP Platinum Albania from Tuesday to Saturday, the second event in the most prestigious category of the CUPRA FIP Tour. Nineteen players from the top 30 of the men\u2019s FIP ranking and 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":328236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fip-platinum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328238,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328225\/revisions\/328238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}