The 2021 edition of the Spanish Championship, if it will have allowed us to see the beautiful padel, will remain as a special edition to say the least.

Top level conditions

Last week was held at Wizink Center in Madrid, the Spanish Championships of Padel 2021.

And it was for the discipline a great success on the communication point.

Indeed this event enjoyed excellent media coverage because for two weeks the word “padel”Has returned in all possible communication channels.

Television, written press, radio and social networks have helped make this discipline even more popular in the mouths of Spaniards during their daily conversations.

To meet a general demand, this competition has had the right to retransmissions via streaming from the first rounds of previas. Chain RTVE.Teledeporte bet again on the padel after several years and allowed the Spaniards to be able to follow the tournament in the clear without having to subscribe to a subscription or even on their website or Youtube.

Once the championship was over, social networks did the rest by communicating abundantly the names of the winners or the significant events. The high quality of the men's final, won by Garrido / Di Nenno, will have offered a superb show to the many “aficionados”!

RTVE teledeporte garrido Di Nenno winner of the spanish championship

The vast majority of players underlined the quality of the playing conditions and the organization.

During these two weeks of competition, the event generated a lot of buzz and social networks have not escaped the rule.

Women say “NO”

Unfortunately for these 2021 Spanish Championships not everything was as beautiful as that.

THE Bad Buzz of this edition is the withdrawal of some players from this competition.

Let's take a step back to understand the situation.

UrbanEvent, a company that has already managed the 2020 edition, wanted to make this event the best of the whole year.
The starting rule was to pay the players equally to avoid any kind of discrimination, ie 30 euros each. In addition, the girls also benefited from the same retransmission time as the gentlemen.

On the ladies side, the cream of padel female was registered and ready to fight.

Among the men, if the casting was still very correct, some big names in the padel world were absent from the competition: Alejandro Galan, Juan Lebron, Juan Martin Diaz and Paquito Navarro.

To make the event even more attractive to the general public and thus fill the Wizink Center complex in Madrid, the managers of the company Urban Event tried to contact some of these players in secret and offered them slightly higher sums against their participation.

However, this operation was not viewed favorably by the players who felt betrayed and decided to withdraw from the competition.

The Spanish Federation of Padel who cleared himself of this situation tried to play the role of firefighters on duty to calm things down but nothing could be done to convince the players to come back, not even the resignation of the CEO of the company Urban Event.

In the end, only 7 pairs, mostly very young players, still took part in the competition, and it was the Rodriguez sisters who were crowned.

Let's hope all the same that in 2022, we can find a magnificent battle with all the best Spanish players!

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