Le World Padel Tour chose to play the Mexico Open with unpressurized balls, a choice that divides fans.

The most observant will have noticed that the balls used during this World Padel Tour CDMX Open are the Head Marathon 4, depressurized balls.

Indeed, to prevent the 2240 meters altitude of Mexico City from transforming the tournament into a smash contest, the circuit has chosen to arrange the Head Padel Pro (not even talking about the Pro S), and to bet on balls without pressure, very slow. A choice that was also made by the APT Padel Tour during the Torreón Open.

As a result, the exchanges are very long and winning smashes are extremely rare. When the players are fully applied, we end up with endless exchanges, like this point that lasted almost 7 minutes yesterday between Di Nenno / Navarro and Chingotto / Tello ! Surreal!

Navarro Di Nenno hugs Mexico Open 2021

When we have fun looking a little at the comments on YouTube, we realize that the subject is divisive. While some seem happy to see longer rallies and less winning smashes, others complain about the lack of speed. Not easy to satisfy everyone… We can imagine that if the WPT had preferred normal balls, many fans would not have appreciated that the points were folded in two strokes of the racket…

So it's up to you to tell us: to choose, do you prefer exchanges that last several minutes, or a shower of devastating smashes and winning volleys?

 

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