{"id":17693,"date":"2024-01-18T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hellopadelacademy.com\/?p=17693"},"modified":"2024-01-18T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T09:49:08","slug":"premier-padel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellopadelacademy.com\/premier-padel\/","title":{"rendered":"FAREWELL WPT…WELCOME PREMIER PADEL!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Surely “almost” all padel lovers will know and\/or have seen a WPT match. However, what some may not know, is that the WPT has come to an end to give way to a new circuit, the Premier Padel…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The WPT circuit came to be in April 2013 to replace the previous circuit that had existed at that time since 2005, the Padel Pro Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since its beginnings, the WPT circuit has been managed by Setpoint Events S.A., the sports events company of the Spanish beer company Estrella Damm, which has established and guaranteed throughout its decade of life, the required quality parameters and the prizes offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we had to choose the most outstanding achievement that the WPT tour has given us in these 10 years, it would be the fact that it has achieved the internationalisation of the sport of padel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From holding almost all its tournaments in Spain (80% of the tournaments), the WPT has finished this year 2023 with 27 men’s and women’s tournaments in 14 different countries, with 17 global sponsors, broadcasting rights in more than 150 countries and millionaire audiences, almost 4 million followers on social networks and beating the world record for attendance at a padel match with 15,779 spectators during the semifinals of the Boss Barcelona Master Final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, in 2022, the WPT achieved the milestone of being the first world competition to equalise the prizes in the men’s and women’s categories in all its events.<\/p>\n\n\n