Belgium
vs
Netherlands
in Professional Padel
Belgium and Netherlands share almost the same padel story — tennis clubs bolting on indoor courts through the 2020s to cope with a climate the sport was never designed for — except the Netherlands started earlier and has grown to a larger scale from that head start. Both remain newcomers next to the sport's founding nations, with competitive records that sit almost entirely inside the tour's current era. Their women's teams have already met once, in a group stage at the FIP Euro Padel Cup, a separate competition from anything the tables below track.
Results compared
Titles
1
Ranked players
48
Players in top 100
1
Players in top 200
14
Players in top 500
30
Each country’s own record across the professional tour — not results against each other. A title counts once per country, so a mixed pair winning a final counts for both. Ranking bands count the men’s and women’s rankings together — they are separate ladders, so a top 10 holds twenty players — and which bands are shown depends on where these two countries’ players actually sit.
Key insights
- The Dutch head start was measured in years rather than any deeper difference of intent between the two scenes.
- Belgium and the Netherlands's competitive records sit almost entirely inside the tour's current era, without the earlier-era weight some of their European neighbours carry.
- A shared climate produced a shared solution — indoor courts bolted onto existing tennis clubs — in both countries, just at different speeds.
- Their women's teams sharing a group at the FIP Euro Padel Cup was a single result, not a verdict on either country's broader playing base.
Year by year
Belgium
Netherlands
titles won
3
1
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Titles won each year by players of each country. A title counts once per country, so a mixed pair winning a final counts for both. Title records run the full range shown; match-win records only begin in 2023, which is why this chart tracks titles rather than wins.
Top players
Belgium
39 ranked players · 18 men, 21 women
Clement Geens
#68
Netherlands
48 ranked players · 30 men, 18 women
Marcella Koek
#82
Bo Luttikhuis
#101
Janine Hemmes
#110
Stephanie Weterings
#142
FIP Silver Pingyuan (2026)
Most titles won
Career titles across every professional tour in our records, back to 2006. Includes players who have since retired, and counts a title for each member of the winning pair.
Titles by era
Premier Padel & FIP Tour
2023–2026
titles
1