Professional padel players denounce unbalanced model at PPA press conference

La Professional Padel Association (PPA) organized a press conference on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at The City of Racqueta, bringing together the main professional players. The objective? To expose the difficulties encountered by athletes on the circuit and to denounce certain irregularities. Discover the key points addressed by Álex Ruiz, Martín Di Nenno, Federico Chingotto and José Antonio García Diestro, as well as reactions from players and the media.

The PPA denounces the chaos and arbitrariness of the FIP and Premier Padel

Official Press Release – PPA Press Conference

Madrid, March 4, 2025. Today, the Professional Padel Association (PPA) held a press conference at The City of Racqueta at the request of professional padel players. The purpose of this meeting was to take stock of their situation and answer questions from the media present.

The conference took place in the presence of the association's management: Álex Ruiz (President), Martín Di Nenno (Vice-President), Federico Chingotto (Office Member), José Antonio García Diestro (Secretary) and José Antonio del Valle (Lawyer), accompanied by a large number of professional players and representatives of the press.

The event began with the reading of an official statement by Álex Ruiz, which highlighted several major problems:

  • Un fake professional model based on broken promises.
  • Un blatant conflict of interest within the International Federation of Padel (FIP), which acts as both judge and party without proper regulation.
  • Personalized unilateral changes to circuit rules, without notice and in full competition.
  • The imposition of disproportionate conditions to players for their participation in tournaments.
  • Personalized decisions in contradiction with own rules of the FIP and Premier Padel, in particular the irregular extension of the registration deadline for P2 tournaments in Gijón and Cancún.
  • The absence of a clear and official regulation governing Premier Padel.
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The statement also stressed that each player remains free to choose your tournaments, without any directive from the PPA to boycott competitions. Some members of the association are also participating in the P2 tournament in Cancun.

After this statement, journalists asked several questions to the PPA representatives. Martín Di Nenno, vice-president, expressed his willingness to find solutions:

“We want this situation to be regulated because we all want to play. It’s our job and we prefer to be on the field than off it.”

Federico Chingotto stressed the relationship with the public:

“We want to be alongside the fans and return to the circuit. We take this opportunity to thank them for their support and messages of encouragement.”

José García Diestro, secretary of the PPA, said:

“We are looking to sit around a table, to dialogue and to make decisions collectively. We want to move forward together.”

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.

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