At the present time, the FIP is aware that there is some information on some social media about an alleged organization of a certain European padel championship to be held in Portugal between November 3 and 9, 2019.

This information surprised the FIP and this entity would like to take this opportunity to make it clear to everyone that it has nothing to do with it and this supposed organization and that it does not come from any associate member.

Being the organization of the European Championship of Padel and granting the corresponding title of the FIP, under the right that assists him according to its statutes; On April 7, 2019, the FIP opened a period until April 30, 2019 to present candidates to organize the European Championship of Padel this year.

Up until now, the organization of the European Championship of Padel has not been assigned to any associate member. The proposals received are being analyzed and the organizing country will be informed in the coming days. This assignment is being treated with the utmost detail, since it is intended that this edition be a historic tournament of superior quality to what has been organized to this day.

In this manner, the FIP will not allow an unidentified and unrecognized group of people to attack an institution with such a long years of activity, trying to create doubts in the environment of our sport and announcing the organization of a championship for which they have not any kind of right.

This press release is published with the purpose of protecting the institutional, patrimonial, and legal interests and the prestige of the entity and associated members, for which reason the FIP will be forceful in defending such interests in the venues where it was necessary.

Lausana, 9 May 2019

The International Padel Federation announces the agreement with the sports marketing agency One Sixteen, as the Marketing and Sponsorship agency of FIP.

FIP integrates into their structure the agency One Sixteen, as the marketing and sponsorship agency.

One Sixteen will be responsible of the marketing and sponsorship of the International Padel Federation for the next two years 2019 and 2020, with the aim of contributing with their experience and knowledge in sports marketing and helping FIP with the promotion and development of padel in an International level.

Madrid, 3 de Abril de 2019

Luigi Carraro, president of the International Padel Federation, and Teddy Puig and Marc Capdevila, founding partners of One Sixteen, have signed an agreement for the next two years, for One Sixteen to be responsible of the Marketing and Sponsorship of the International Federation of padel.

One Sixteen, is an agency specialised in sports marketing, manly in the world of padel. Among other projects, they manage the marketing of high qualified players such as Fernando Belasteguin, Pablo Lima, Alejandra Salazar and Marta Marrero, and  the management and activation of the sponsorship of Adeslas in the padel world.

FIP signs agreement with One Sixteen in Madrid. From L to R: Teddy Puig, cofounder of One Sixteen, Luigi Carraro, FIP’s President and Marc Capdevila, cofounder of One Sixteen

One Sixteen will be the responsible for the marketing and sponsorship division of FIP and its mission includes elaborating and developing a strategic marketing and sponsorship plan. This allows the Federation to create a competition calendar, promotional events, training events, conventions…and gain support to big international companies, have a range of competition support to all the different national federations and to promote and encourage padel as a sport in their countries.

With this partnership, FIP is committed to the creation of a professional work structure that provides added value in the development of padel as a sport in the world. Work, hand to hand, with professionals from the sports and padel sector, so that we all join in making padel more popular and practiced Internationally.

The new members of the Board of Directors have been elected at the last Extraordinary General Assembly held on March 14 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The event was held at the headquarters of one of the most prestigious international organisations in the world, FIESP, the Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo.

These elections were held in one of the most magnificent rooms of the building and the call was to elect the new members of the Board of Directors of IPF. The elected members were: Gabriel Souto, Hubert Picquier, José Luis García Frapolli, Alexander Pavy, Eduardo Langer and Héctor Parolín. We take this opportunity to welcome on board all of them and wish them the greatest success in this new cycle of IPF.

All the participants of the Assembly had the honor to be invited by the President of FIESP, Mr. Paulo Skaf, to a lunch in these facilities. Accompanied by an outstanding atmosphere and some personalities – who are in the forefront of the business market in the country as well as public figures, such as the same mayor of Sao Paulo, Mr. Bruno Covas – IPF lived a pleasant and very warm welcome.

The mayor of the city, wanted to congratulate the assembly members and also congratulate our President, Mr. Luigi Carraro, for the event, as well as he wished all the best to our sport. Mr. Bruno Covas was later gifted with a padel racket, courtesy of the Brazilian Padel Confederation and delivered by its President Mr. Eduardo Langer, which the Mayor received with open arms.

From IPF, we want to thank all the organising team of the event, which was run by the staff of FIESP and whose excellence and attention with the assembly members and all of us was exquisite.

It has been a quite busy start for our new president having had important meetings on his first days of mandate.

Luigi Carraro, recently elected as FIP President, takes the first steps to approach our sport to the Olympic Movement already. Surrounded by public personalities and institutions that represent the sport on the top level, Carraro has been welcomed by the Italian Olympic Committee as well as by the International Olympic Committee earlier this week.

Both Olympic sports institutions gave a warm welcome to Carraro and they congratulated him for his new position. They also showed their interest in padel as a possible key sport in the near future.

Last Monday, 5^th of November, Carraro was invited to the Italian Olympic Committee to be publicly recognised and congratulated as FIP president. He was welcomed by Giangranco Nirdaci, President of the Italian Padel Committee, Giovanni Malago, CONI President and Carlo Mornati, CONI General Secretary.

(L-R): Giovanni Malago, CONI President; Luigi Carraro, FIP President; Giangranco Nirdaci, President of the Italian Padel Committee and Carlo Mornati, CONI General Secretary

Some days later, Thursday 8^th of November, Carraro met the IOC President, Thomas Bach, in Rome. Given the support shown by the Olympic Movement, Carraro is very optimistic and he is glad to have such a successful start as President.

(L-R) Luigi Carraro, FIP President with Thomas Bach, IOC President

The main representative leaders in sports and Olimpism have been introduced to padel these days. We hope that this can be the beginning of the inclusion of padel into the Olympic family anytime soon.