In appearance very classic, the points scale at World Padel Tour actually contains a little secret impossible to detect at first glance. Explanations.

We showed you recently, here is the points scale applicable to date in tournaments of the World Padel Tour and the FIP Tour:

This ranking is perfectly fair, from the sixteenth finals for the teams who entered directly into the main draw. On the other hand, he does not do not mention the "bonuses" that can get pairs that start preprevias and previas and who get to qualify for the main draw ...

And you'll see that bonuses can be important because players can see their points multiplied by 2!

We will explain this through a very simple example: a team starts an Open tournament directly in 1 / 16 finals of the main draw and loses entry: each partner marks 40 points as you can see on the chart. Another team, which starts in the first round of preprevias of the same tournament, wins all its matches of preprevias and previas. Like the previous team, she bows 1 / 16 finals of the main draw: in this case, each partner marks not 40 but 80 points! (Each partner would have scored 75 points if the team had started in the second round of previas and 70 if it had started in previas).

There are also bonuses, of course much less important, for the teams who lose in previa after having started in preprevia, compared to those that start directly in previa. (Ex: 51 points for a defeat in the final of the previas of a Master for a team entered in the first round of the preprevias against 38 for a team that entered the previas). We can see that it is the teams that start in qualifying and manage to qualify for the final table who are really favored by this principle.

A system that aims to make get out faster those who do not win / more games in the main draw, and conversely to favor those who start in the qualifying table, who therefore play more games and must to bear all the constraints that go with it. This explains why former well known WPT players like Fernando Poggi or Godo Díaz are now forced to go through the previas to try to hang a place in the main draw ...

In France another method tries to answer the same problematic: the ranking matches!

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