Hold on tight! The differences in earnings between tennis and padel will certainly amaze you. By relying on our colleagues from El4Set, we will try to compare tennis and padel.

The Youtuber El 4 Set regularly offers opinions and videos on news from the World Padel Tour. This time he tells us about the difference gains between ATP circuit and World Padel Tour.

First of all, you have to understand that the history of the two sports is not the same. Tennis has been played for over a century and the padel for only twenty years… Reason for the differences between tennis and padel ?

In this period of Australian Open tennis, know that a player of the male table losing to first round leaves with € 56 in your pocket. The winner, the one who will lift the trophy, will pocket the small sum from 2 €. On the side of padel, if we add up the perceived gains in 2019 by 16 best players, the total is € 1… What difference is it not?

How are the earnings distributed World Padel Tour ?

Depending on the type of tournament, the winnings change.

  • When for his Final Master, the winners and finalists leave with respectively € 16 and € 500 each
  • At a Master, the winners pocket 10 500€ and finalists € 6
  • In an Open, winning pays 9 100€, be in the final 6 000€

Fortunately for players, these earnings are not the only source of income. It is the sponsors who largely finance their season.

We can separate the players' winnings into 3 parts:

  • First the brands
  • Second, tournament winnings
  • Third, clinics, exhibitions or others

How much can the best players earn?

Each year, in the top 3 of the best players, the total winnings can go up to € 500 per player, which is already very interesting. But, there are the taxes, and the Spanish public treasury, the ”Estate“, To whom you have to pay about half. So we can say that, net of taxes, the best players win between 200 and 000 € per year. And we are only talking about the best, because this sum drops very quickly for the following players.

The WPT touch

World Padel Tour gives players some kind of bonus each year based on their end-of-season ranking. Players ranked between 11th and 20th place receive a fixed amount of € 7 per year, while top 500 players receive € 10.

What have top 10 players won in tournaments in 2019?

10- Mati Díaz with € 56

9- Agustín Tapia with € 57

8- Franco Stupaczuk with € 57

7- Fernando Belasteguin with € 74

6 and 5- Sanyo Gutiérrez and Maxi Sánchez € 94

4- Pablo Lima 95 576 €

3- Ale Galan with € 99

2 and 1- Paquito Navarro and Juan Lebron with € 108

Hopefully, as in tennis, we will one day find parity between men and women. padel, for the moment this is still far from being the case…

 

Julien Bondia

Julien Bondia is a teacher of padel in Tenerife (Spain). Columnist and advisor, he helps you play better through his tutorials and tactical/technical articles padel.