· 2024 calendar includes 25 tournaments in 18 countries across the world.
· Season will conclude with the Premier Padel Tour Finals, in Barcelona.
· Calendar includes new destinations in the Middle East, South America and Europe, and returns to historic venues Stade Roland-Garros and Foro Italico.
LONDON, DOHA, MADRID, ROME – 19 December 2023 – Premier Padel, the leading official professional padel tour, today announced its eagerly anticipated 2024 calendar. The 2024 season will see 25 tournaments spanning 18 countries in 5 continents taking place throughout the year, demonstrating Premier Padel’s ongoing commitment to reach new markets, grow the game globally and inspire more people to participate.
The season will begin on 26 February 2024 with the Riyadh P1, taking place as part of Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Season, and will be immediately followed by the Qatar Major. The tour will then move to Mexico and Venezuela in South America before coming to Brussels and Andalusia in April and May. Following this, the tour returns to South America – including Premier Padel’s first visit to Paraguay and Chile. The tour then swings back to Europe in June and July, before a mid-season break in August. The season resumes in Europe and the Middle East – including new Premier Padel locations Rotterdam, Dusseldorf, Sweden, Dubai, and Kuwait City, with further tournaments planned for new locations, before the Milan P1 closes the main part of the season, as it has done for the past two years.
The 2024 calendar will conclude with the first-ever edition of the Premier Padel Tour Finals which will take place in Barcelona on 18-22 December 2024 and will see the top-ranked pairs battle it out for the final trophy of the 2024 Premier Padel season.
Since launching in 2022, Premier Padel has become one of the fastest growing tours in world sport. Over 500 male players from around the world competed in Premier Padel tournaments in its first year, playing in some of the most iconic venues in sports history including at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris. Over 110 leading professional female players joined Premier Padel in March 2023. Premier Padel has secured multi-year broadcast agreements that cover 180+ countries reaching over 150 million households, while the first two Premier Padel seasons attracted almost 25 million views on YouTube.
In August 2023, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) together with the International Padel Federation (FIP), backed by the Professional Padel Association (PPA) and the International Padel Players Association (IPPA), announced that an historic agreement had been reached with Damm, the owner of Setpoint Events which organises the World Padel Tour (WPT), for QSI to acquire WPT to create a single global professional padel tour – called Premier Padel – in 2024 under the governance of FIP. The 2024 Premier Padel Calendar will be the first season of the newly unified tour.
