Padel in our country enjoys unbeatable health, and this has been witnessed by the Barcelona edition of the World Padel Tour, with a stage at the Palau Sant Jordi this weekend: 16,000 souls gathered this Sunday in Montjuïc, as did another 16,000 They had done it the day before, a full house at Sant Jordi.
Yes, paddle tennis is in good health in our country.
Demetrio Carceller Arce, president of Damm, a brand that has sponsored the circuit in its first ten years of existence, has a lot to do with the qualitative leap in paddle tennis. These days, Carceller Arce has received the award for Management Talent at the IV Sports Values ??Gala, in an event that was held at the Headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee, in Madrid. Ramon Agenjo, vice president of Damm and president of the World Padel Tour, presented the trophy this Sunday to the tournament champions, Fede Chingotto and Paco Navarro.
The investor Qatar Sports Investments will now adopt the sponsorship of the World Padel Tour, the calendar that brings together the best specialists in the world, all of them mentioned in almost thirty tournaments, most of them based in Europe and Latin America.
Demetrio Carceller Arce, a tennis lover, had seen the potential of paddle tennis at a sporting, social and business level, and also the ability of this sport to unite different generations. Already in the 90s, this led him to promote the Estrella Damm Circuit, the first amateur circuit in Spain, which each year brings together more than 10,000 players. In 2013 he went further by creating the World Padel Tour.
The incorporation of Qatar Sports Investments will bring the World Padel Tour (WPT) and the Professional Padel Association under the same umbrella, so that there will now be a single professional padel circuit. The new unified circuit will be launched in January, already at the beginning of the new academic year.
The WPT, which was created in 2013, has now celebrated its tenth anniversary. During this time, it has held more than 300 men’s and women’s tournaments in 20 countries, has had 17 global sponsors and its television broadcasting rights span more than 150 countries. It is estimated that his number of followers on social networks already exceeds four million.
These days at the Palau Sant Jordi, the Fede Chingotto-Paco Navarro couple has taken the title of the Boss Barcelona Master Final.
He did it this Sunday, after beating the Juan Lebron-Alejandro Galán duo in the final of the tournament, 6-1 and 6-4.
Chingotto and Navarro have known how to handle the keys of the final. They have done it from the first set, even after seeing how the service slipped away in the first game. From there, their playful game was going to unbalance Lebron-Galán (a couple whose future seems separated) until they took flight, with six consecutive games in their favor and a definitive break in the second set.
