Brazil
vs
France
in Professional Padel
France has the organisation and is waiting on the talent; Brazil has produced talent for years with no organisation behind it. One grew padel inside an existing tennis federation, steadily and through clubs that already had members. The other has no comparable structure and sends players to the tour out of a broad sporting culture instead.
Results compared
Titles
8
Ranked players
122
Players in top 50
1
Players in top 100
4
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
- France's growth came through tennis clubs adopting padel rather than through dedicated new facilities.
- Brazil's professionals emerge from a broad sporting culture, not from a national development programme.
- A federation-led model grows more slowly than an investor-led one and is far less prone to closures.
- Both nations' best players compete on a European circuit that neither of them sets the calendar for.
Year by year
Brazil
France
titles won
1
6
1
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2
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2
2
1
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4
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5
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8
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12
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11
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2
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4
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4
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3
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4
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3
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5
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12
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9
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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
Brazil
43 ranked players · 38 men, 5 women
Lucas Bergamini
#16
Lucas Campagnolo
#18
Raquel Piltcher
#68
Manuela Schuck Silva
#136
WPT Master Final (2019)
France
122 ranked players · 84 men, 38 women
WPT La Nucia Challenger (2021)
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
6
World Padel Tour
2013–2023 ended
titles
2
Padel Pro Tour
2006–2012 ended
titles
0