Le World Padel Tour welcomes more and more foreign players each tournament, more than 10 different nationalities are represented on average with points to 18 nationalities in some professional padel events. The world of padel is expanding and the developing nations are trying to place players in the WPT.

One nation is particularly famous for a little over a year: Portugal.

Portuguese players:

Portuguese players are probably the best represented in the tables of the pre-previas and previas of the tournaments of the World Padel Tour.

In pre-previas the player Vasco Pascoal (110eme world) often qualifies for qualifications with different partners. In qualifying, Miguel Oliveira (62e World), managed to win his place by returning directly to the previas. He has managed by 2 times this year to qualify for the final draw.

Diogo Rocha (80th in the world) and Antonio Luque (64th in the world) are the only 100% Portuguese pair. Accustomed to qualifying, this team often fails at the gates of the final draw. All these players are of course members of the Portuguese national team which is one of the best padel nations at the moment.

This is to say the enormous performance of the French pair, Benjamin Tison and Adrien Maigret, during the padel world championship in Paraguay last November when they managed to beat the pair Pascoal V. – Oliveira M., respectively 70th and 77th players in the world at the time.

Maigret / Tison achieves the best perf of this world

Portuguese players:

The Portuguese players stand out especially in the main draw with Sofia Araujo (World 28e) and Ana Catarina Nogueira (14e World).

Sofia Araujo is a very aggressive player with a steel mind who is not afraid of anyone and who is ready for anything to win her matches. Often unhappy in the draws, she always knew how to put in danger her opponents who were the best players in the world.

Ana Catarina Nogueira, 40 years old, had an incredible week in Mijas alongside Paula José Maria. A defeat in the final after beating the world number 1 in the semi-final, which will remain historic for Portuguese padel.

These 2 players are members of the Portuguese national team and like their male compatriots, are among the 4 best padel nations in the world.

As you will have understood, in Portugal, padel is developing enormously, and all this thanks to their numerous tournaments throughout the year for the best players, both male and female, but also for recreational players.

sources: World Padel Tour / Players FB
Max Moreau

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