A great event took place today and is very relevant for the Padel in Europe and represents at the same time a boost for the Padel worldwide.

Today, our President Luigi Carraro had a meeting with Mr. Raffaele Pagnozzi, Secretary General of the COE-European Olympic Committee and Raffaele Chiulli, President of the GAISF, which is a great support for the FIP, to present an official candidacy so that the Padel is included as a sport in the next European Olympic Games to be held in 2023, Krakow, Poland.

These Regional Olympic Games will be organized for the third time, after the editions of Baku in 2015 and Minsk in 2019. The previous regional games had a total of 50 participating countries and more than 4000 athletes.

The COE reacted very positively to the proposal, and in the coming weeks, the operational meetings between the FIP and the COE will begin to carry out the objective of including the Padel in said games.

This announcement represents great news for our sport, in particular in the European continent, since these Regional games are the antechamber of the Olympic Games. Since the beginning of the presidency of Luigi Carraro, one of the objectives set is to take the Padel to the highest sports category such as being in the Olympic Games. This meeting is a huge step to reach that goal.

We continue working to keep the padel growing and reach more countries, create more players and be represented in the highest bodies.

The Netherlands has the chance to organize the first FIP RISE tournament and it will give the first official points in the new era of the unified ranking system.

From 28th to 30th June, the tournament will take place in the facilities of  TPC Daalmeer Alkmaar.

The prize money is 3000€ and the winners will get 20 points that count already for WPT and FIP ranking

All the semifinals and finals can be followed streaming in our social networks.

Thanks to the NPB and Norberto Nesi, the organization has met all the required conditions in such a short time to be the first one organizing one of these new types of tournaments.

Interview with Norberto Nesi (chairman NPB)

Last point final 2018

Ganadores el año pasado de la FIP250.

The ranking, or the scoring system, will be unique and recognizable worldwide from this season. This is the main agreement between the two highest padel organizations, the World Padel Tour (WPT) and the International Padel Federation (FIP).

WPT and FIP continue to strengthen their collaboration. Both entities have decided to unify the Ranking by points in the male and female categories, an initiative that lays the foundations of determined joint cooperation of both organizations for the professional development of the padel and that will be a reality from next July 1^st.

The initiative carried out by both entities will provide the padel with a more professionalized view of the sport. On the one hand, WPT will continue as an international reference for the professional padel and, on the other hand, the FIP will serve as a support point for the national federations, which will equip the circuit with world-class tournaments, boosting the local game, helping to increase the level and number of players and with it the development of the padel.

From this same season, the scoring system is organized around seven newly created categories designed to facilitate the access of the maximum number of players to the professional Circuit. To the four categories organized by World Padel Tour (Master Final, Master, Open and Challenger), which will maintain the current score, there are three others: FIP Star, FIP Rise and FIP Promotion, whose organization will depend directly and exclusively on the FIP, including all regulatory aspects (calendar, composition, regulations and requirements).

The new tournament configuration will allow players from all over the world to earn points that will allow them to participate in WPT events. A system, in short, that will give them the opportunity to play in tournaments organized in their countries of origin and accumulate experience and ranking.

This is the new typology of tournaments that will add to the new unified ranking

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.