WPT players team up to defend their interests. the new players union originates with in particular Alejandro galan in his presidency, Pablo Lima to help him and Paquito Navarro as secretary.

The Professional Padel Association (PPA)

These are 7 players who will represent all the racquets on the circuit World Padel Tour. Maxi Sanchez will be the treasurer, and Fernando Belasteguin, Miguel Semmler, and José Carlos Gaspar spokespersons.

The objective of this association is tojoin forces to deal with the new WPT contract proposal. The players would like to sign these contracts as an associative entity, and no longer individually.

La PPA wants to give the player a “greater legal and financial capacity, as it already exists in other sports ”. We are thinking in particular of the association of players in the NBA (basketball), which has been defending the interests of players for years.

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The WPT and LaLiga Tech alliance

The creation of the PPA comes 7 days after the announcement of Mario Hernando a partnership with LaLiga Tech, to boost a new OTT platform 100% dedicated to World Padel Tour.

According to the WPT general manager, “The alliance with LaLiga Tech is thesingle path to increase competition, and thus know what our audience wants ”.

Such a platform will allow the WPT to generate more money and therefore distribute more to players. A system that seems win / win at a time when the padel is experiencing a great boom.

On the other hand, this is a risky choice since, as we see in other sports, the platforms dedicated to a single competition on which fans must pay to see the content are often double-edged. the padel is still young, and viewers may not yet be ready to pay for it, even in Spain. As for the Moto Gp with DAZN, the WPT could lose part of its audience if it asks too much money too soon ...

What future for the padel ?

At a key moment in the history of padel professionally, the players organize themselves to try to make the best possible decision. Indeed, several actors wish to highlight the sports spectacle produced by the players. The WPT therefore, but also the APT and a certain Lisandro Borges who would like to offer a circuit where the players would own 50% of the rights.

For the moment, no one knows what will happen in the coming year, but we risk in any case seeing beautiful events of padel all over the world.

source: 2playbook

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