It's a bit like the soap opera of this beginning of the year 2022. While we thought that the World Padel Tour would have the best players in the world exclusively until 2024, the FIP and Qatar Sports Investments have accelerated their circuit project which, according to the latest information available, going to start well this year.

Luigi Carraro, Nasser Al-Khelaifi and the players have ignored the threats of the WPT for the moment, but a few days before the resumption, the latter seems to be on the way to not letting it go. After being quite quiet these past few days, the circuit would be about to communicate to remind again that theThe players are bound by commitments, and that they expose themselves to sanctions.

In any case, this is what our colleagues from CMD Sport, who state that a WPT source believes that “the circuit has never failed in its commitments, there is a contract signed with the players and tournaments planned for the next two years. In this world, it's the law that defines things“. Before adding: “players are committed to participating in all tournaments that are part of the WPT circuit except in cases of force majeure”.

A clarification that seems necessary after Luigi Carraro has seized the IOC to denounce the contract binding the players to the WPT, considering that he does not respect the rules of the Federation. Furthermore, as we said in a previous article, legal action by the players via the PPA association for abuse of a dominant position and abusive clause could be looming.

If the 2022 season of the WPT, which is the most international in its history, will get off to a good start in a few days in Miami, this boiling context leaves doubts as to what will happen next...

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