Pedro Sanchez announced it yesterday: La Liga, the Spanish professional football championship can resume from July 8. Lovers of padel therefore wonder if the World Padel Tour may also resume on this date on which the Valencia Open was scheduled.
For now, according to Sports world, at least first two weeks of La Liga resumption will be behind closed doors, like what is currently happening in Germany with the Bundesliga. Football being a sport that generates a lot of television rights, this model can work very well.
But as Jorge de Benito told us, WPT can hardly do without box office receipts. In addition, the players of padel will only be able to start training at 4 again from phase 3 of de-containment, ie… not before July 8 in certain autonomous communities. Under these conditions it therefore seems complicated to consider a recovery so early. Unless the voice of the world padel be heard...