Today, with the three professional circuits competing simultaneously, we end up with three different rankings: that of the APT Padel Tower, that of World Padel Tour and that of the FIP (which includes the tournaments of Premier Padel and the Cupra FIP Tour). How to compare the different rankings? What is one classification worth compared to another? This is the challenge that we will try to meet in this article.

We're not going to lie to you, even for insiders, for players and organizers, it's very complicated to find your way around. Between the multitude of tournaments and circuits and the fact that some players play one circuit in priority over another, it is inevitably a little difficult to see clearly.

Le World Padel Tour

This circuit took over from Padel Pro Tour since 2013 and has been instrumental in making the padel media as it is today and its ranking is still the reference. Indeed, it has more professional stages than Premier Padel and the APT Padel Tour, but not as many lower value tournaments as the Cupra FIP Tour. Indeed, where the FIP Tour will offer competitions all over the planet, and often simultaneously, the WPT remains, despite its desire for internationalization, a circuit fairly centered on Spain, the country where we find the most high level players.

Thus, and because a player in the men who starts in the first round of the pre-previas of a WPT tournament must pass six rounds to enter the final table, it remains the circuit where the overall level is the highest.

The FIP Tower / Premier Padel

Let us first recall that the World Padel Tour and the International Federation Padel had merged the world rankings, thus the number 1 of the WPT was number 1 of the FIP. But since the start of the year, the FIP has decided to make Premier Padel the new official professional circuit. For the moment five tournaments of Premier Padel took place, and two will follow, which should push the total to seven competitions for 2022. Of course, the stars of the padel worldwide now take part in all the tournaments of Premier Padel (it was not the case at the very beginning).

Ale Galan and Juan Lebron lift trophy Greenweez Paris Premier Padel Major
Lebron and Galan number 1 FIP and WPT

Thus, for the best players, the rankings at the WPT and on Premier Padel remain generally the same. On the other hand, when you get out of the Top 50, it seems easier to succeed on the FIP circuit. Firstly because the Cupra FIP Tour tournaments are very numerous and present all over the world. Thus, they allow those who wish to travel to earn points to do so.

In addition, the operation of the tournaments of Premier Padel and WPT are not the same. Indeed, there are no preprevias on Premier Padel and players start earlier in the main draw, making it easier to score points. Thus a player who has difficulty entering the WPT Top 100 can more easily do so on the FIP ranking. For example, Jérémy Scatena, whose best ranking on the WPT was number 99, is now number 76 in the FIP.

APT Padel Tour

APT Padel Tour is a professional circuit which is not actually on the same line as the World Padel Tour et Premier Padel. Moreover, it began without the FIP and continues for the moment without the approval of the international organization of padel.

This circuit, predominantly South American, concentrates many young players and former WPT talents who come to take advantage of more interesting conditions. Recently, we saw that Pincho Fernandez Cano and José Diestro, currently 28th in the World Padel Tour, were able to win an APT Open Padel Turn (to Tenerife), those who have never made it past the quarter-finals of a WPT Open. Quite clearly superior to the players they faced in the Canary Islands, the Spaniards still needed three sets to get rid of Tolito Aguirre and Tito Allemandi, currently second pair on the circuit. Moreover, Allemandi was still in the Top 30 of the WPT last season.

In view of the different results, we can legitimately think that the very best pairs of the APT could have their place in the main tables of the WPT, their level therefore probably being around the 40th place of the ranking of this circuit. Then we notice that the former players of the World Padel Tour Andres Britos and Diego Ramos, who have been qualifying on the WPT for the past few years, are now respectively 7th and 14th on the APT. We can therefore see that there is a fairly clear difference between the rankings of the two circuits, and we can think that in addition to a few pairs, the majority of APT players would compete in the previas and preprevias of the WPT and the end of the previas/start of the first round of tournaments Premier Padel.

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