During his interview atprevious World Padel Tour from Madrid, Fernando Belasteguin, the most influential player in the sphere padel, launched a important message on the situation of young players.

Difficult to finance your career

The words of White were overshadowed by the incredible performance of the pair he forms with Sanyo, and their first final together. The message was strong, it is important to promote it.

“I want to send a message to sponsors. Bet on these young players so that they can have the means to finance their training and so that we can have a very high level in the future. ”, expressed White last Saturday.

These words from the greatest player in the history of the sport are not trivial. White raises here several issues not often mentioned, but which are part of the daily life of the majority of players of padel high level.

Fernando Belasteguin's message is all the more united, because he does not speak of his personal situation. Indeed, the players who systematically play the main draw are not concerned by financial problems: they touch of prize money interesting and have many sponsors.

But the majority of the World Padel Tour does not reach the table, and fights to go as far as possible in pre-previa, then in previa.

These players are high level athletes who train every day. Le padel is their life, but how to finance the latter when the former does not bring you sufficient income?

The WPT, a very tough circuit

Le World Padel Tour, it is the famous circuit of "better padel of the world", as the slogan says. But it is important to take care of the less publicized players to preserve fairness in this competition. Players invest to live their passion and try this adventure, but beaucoup turn at a loss...

With theban on streamer their meetings in previas and pre-previas, players who are not in the main draw get very little visibility. Indeed, the World Padel Tour only offering direct from the quarter-finals, it is very difficult for some to find a place in the sun ...

Player testimonials

“We left with 3 or 4 in the car and we rent an apartment on a rental site. Usually for 3 nights. As all the pre-previas and previas are in Spain, we manage to get by for not too expensive. About 250 €, but it varies. The WPT doesn't pay us anything. ”, Explain Maxime Moreau, one of our French from the WPT.

“There is a physiotherapist on site if you get injured during the match, but he is not a physiotherapist available. There is nothing. Before we had 3 point when we lost in the first round of pre-previas, now nothing. "continues Maxim with reference to new points distribution system.

Indeed, for the moment the physiotherapist is only made available to players from the previas ...

max moreau apt

To counter the arrival of the APT Padel Tour, the WPT seemed to want to take more care of its qualifying players but the new regulations prove to us that the Spanish circuit seems above all to seek to protect the players of previas.

More and more players who are struggling to get into the main draws are considering taking the lead in theAPT Padel Tour to earn a better living. This is particularly the case of the Argentinian Fede Quiles. Good news for the APT which should recover some more talents!

From his names, we can guess his Spanish and Italian origins. Lorenzo is a multilingual passionate about sports: journalism by vocation and events by worship are his two legs. He is the international gentleman of Padel Magazine. You will often see it on the various international competitions, but also on the major French events. @eyeofpadel on Instagram to see his best photos of padel !