News

Hi Padel Lovers!

Before I tell you more about our Padel plans for 2022, I want to express how wrong wars are. Wars don’t bring lasting peace, only lasting death! Let’s #StandWithUkraine and demand an immediate stop of the war! Last weekend (26+27 Feb) was meant to be the weekend for the Kyiv Padel Cup at the Kyiv Racket Sports Park. You can imagine that it never happened....

Back here in Ireland, we are lucky to have a different normality and we are delighted to announce the official Padel Federation of Ireland (PFI) calendar for this year 2022

The Irish Padel Tour (IPT) has new venues and more will join during the year. There are also new formats and rules.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PFI OFFICIAL TOURNAMENTS

Categories

• Open (Male)
• Wopen (Female)
• Social 1 (Intermediate level)
• Social 2 (Low level)
• Mixed (with one player from high and the other player from low level)

Padel Federation of Ireland Tournament fees

• Open / Wopen: €25 annually (with access to ranking points)
  This ranking will give access to play international competitions like FIP tournaments.
  For this fee you will get a PFI license number for the year and therefore PFI member.

• Social 1 / 2 and Mixed: €5 annually
  For this fee you will automatically become a PFI member, but without access to ranking points.

Registrations and rules

• Registration closes at 12:00 on the Wednesday before the tournament date.
• Payment can be made to the PFI account. Alternatively you can pay at the Bushy Park desk by card or cash and also at the club where the tournament is organized.
• Tournament fees must be paid in advanced
• Schedule issues have to be notified to the Irish Padel Tour (IPT) manager (Javier Serrano) as soon as possible to try to accommodate everyone.
• Every tournament will have seeded players depending on entries.
• Players with debts cannot participate in any tournament until the debt has been paid.
• Open and Wopen will be played to the best of 2 sets with Super Tiebreak (up to 10 points). Semi-finals and finals will be played to best of 3 sets like a normal game.
• Every match will be played with Golden Point rule.
• Teams will also compete for the 3rd place.
• Social 1 / 2 and Mixed categories will be played to 1 set or 9 games in previous rounds and 2 sets with Super Tiebreak (up to 10 points) for finals. The actual modus always depends on the number of registrations and will be announced on the day of the competition.
• Disciplinary conduct rules will be applied in every match.
• Players can be sanctioned.
• An official referee will be in place for finals at the big events with more than 2 courts.
• A minimum and a maximum of entries are required to make a tournament possible. This information will be specified for every tournament.

Prizes

• Tournaments in Open and Wopen with 16 or more teams
  • € 600 for  the two categories (€300 each) and trophies
    • Winners       € 200
    • Runners up  € 100
    • 3rd Place     Padel equipment or Vouchers
• Tournaments in Open and Wopen with 8 to 15 teams
  • € 300 for the two categories (€150 each) and trophies
    • Winners       € 100
    • Runners up  € 50
• Social 1 / 2 and Mixed will have trophies + Padel equipment

*The first 3 Irish players will have all expenses paid in the next International tournament played for Ireland in 2023

Points per player

• Winners           1000 points
• Runners up      750 points
• 3^rd Place          600 points
• 4^Th Place          500 points
• 1/4 Finals        300 points
• 1/8 Finals        150 points
• 1/16 Finals      50 points

We wish you all the best in 2022 with plenty of good news and a lot fun around Padel.

Good luck to everybody!!!