Belgium
vs
Spain
in Professional Padel
Spain is where the modern professional game took shape, and its playing pyramid runs deeper than any other nation's, from club level through every tier of the pro game. Belgium's professional history is barely a chapter long by comparison, its ranked players and its titles belonging almost entirely to the current era of the tour. The two have already met on a bigger stage than this one: their women's teams shared a group at the FIP Euro Padel Cup, a reminder that national team competition and this club-level record are two separate things worth keeping apart.
Results compared
Titles
435
Ranked players
710
Players in top 10
13
Players in top 50
70
Players in top 100
131
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
- Spain's professional depth runs so wide that its squad carries weight even in the lower bands of world ranking, not only at the very top.
- Belgium's ranked players sit almost entirely in the lower bands of world ranking, typical of a country still building its first cohort rather than a weakness specific to it.
- A record compared across the whole tour looks nothing like a national team result, and the two should not be read as versions of the same thing.
- Meeting in team competition, as their women did at the FIP Euro Padel Cup, says more about a single squad's form on the day than it does about either country's overall depth.
Year by year
Belgium
Spain
titles won
3
67
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28
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27
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25
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28
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25
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11
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17
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15
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13
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13
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11
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15
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17
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14
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17
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18
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19
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18
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20
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17
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
Spain
710 ranked players · 461 men, 249 women
Gemma Triay Pons
#1
Ariana Sanchez Fallada
#3
Beatriz Gonzalez Fernandez
#4
Paula Josemaria Martin
#5
Claudia Fernandez Sanchez
#6
Barcelona Finals (2025)
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
129
World Padel Tour
2013–2023 ended
titles
183
Padel Pro Tour
2006–2012 ended
titles
123