As we saw recently, the international circuit Premier Padel will offer three categories of tournaments in 2024: Major, P1 et P2, supplemented by a Final Master at the end of the year. At the same time, the FIP Tour, includes five categories: Platinum, Gold, Star, Rise et Promotion more the Cupra FIP Finals. And in France, you ask? Here is what we learn from competition guide for this year.
In France, we will have seven categories of tournaments approved by the FFT: P25, P100, P250, P500, P1000, P1500 and P2000. Here's what you need to know:
Here is the points scale for each category:
As part of the organization of tournaments, the deadlines for submitting approval requests are important. For regional and departmental championships, whether in pairs or teams, these deadlines are left to the discretion of the leagues and organizing committees. Regarding tournaments, deadlines vary depending on the category:
If a club does not respect these deadlines, only the league concerned or the FFT, as the case may be, will have the power to decide whether or not to accept approval directly in the federal administrative database.
Concerning the management of approval rights, the latter are automatically debited from the account of organizing club once approval has been validated by the league or the FFT. It is important to note that it is the end date of the tournament who determines the year of approval.
For the year 2024, which extends from 1st September 2023 au August 31, 2024, the approval rights for tournaments of padel are fixed as follows:
For more information, head to the Competition Guide:
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Hello,
The points scale table is not up to date. This is the one that was applicable in March 2023, it has since been changed depending on the number of players registered for the tournaments.
Hello and thank you for your comment. Indeed there was an error, it has been corrected!