For several weeks, two major institutions of world padel have been fighting to obtain the pardon of professional players and obtain their signature to play in their professional circuit: The International Padel Tower vs the World Padel Tour (#MonteCarloIAmIn VS #YoSoyWorldPadelTower)
But in this war of signatures, it seems that we have forgotten a very important part of world padel: Women's padel.
Le World Padel Tour like the International Padel Tour focuses on men's padel.
One of the great personalities of Spanish professional padel, who for the moment wishes to remain anonymous, tells us more:
It's the professional players who will tip the scales, and at Monte Carlo International Sports, do you see a player sponsored by the MCIS team right now? On the face of it, very little, not to say not, whereas among men, the investment seems very important.
However, it is necessary to relativize these remarks because the team MCIS did indeed sponsor for a time the ladies, as in France with Laura Clergue or in Spain with Alejandra Salazar and Marta Marrero or Cata Tenorio.
But on the side of World Padel Tour, it's not better:
Professional female players regularly complain about the difference in treatment that there can be between men and women on the professional circuit of the World Padel Tour. We had the same problem during the Padel Pro Tour, the old professional padel circuit before the WPT. There have been some initiatives this year from the World Padel Tour, But a lot remains to be done.
To be as complete as possible, our speaker on the professional circuit continues:
It is the men's padel that is keeping professional padel alive for the moment. During the stages of the World Padel Tour, even if we feel more interest in women's padel, it is men's padel that attracts people. Brands are investing much more in men's than in women's as well, even if they are also trying to make efforts there.
It's now happening!
Padel lives “a global boom". Brands and players all agree.
Unfortunately, the professional circuit like the International Federation of Padel are absent from this reason for the boom in world padel. We hear them arguing more about who will take the reins of world padel, than promoting amateur padel and developing it on all continents. We talk too often about professional padel when it is only a very small minority.
The main thing is elsewhere. In Spain, the professional circuit is a drop in the ocean compared to Spanish amateur padel. We must not forget that.
Maxi Sanchez, one of the best players in the world, explained a few days ago that "lPadel is living its best hours and we feel a worldwide craze for this sport never experienced before"
What is certain is that this competition to represent the professional padel circuit and this financial windfall in professional padel is a very good thing for professional padel and for the players. Let's hope that the ladies are not the big forgotten ones.

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.