Italy
vs
Mexico
in Professional Padel
Italy has built the second-largest padel infrastructure in the world after Spain, with thousands of clubs and courts added since the early 2010s and its tennis federation formally renamed to reflect the sport's place alongside tennis. That scale of facilities feeds a correspondingly wide base of ranked players across the country, from weekend club level up through several tiers of national and regional competition. Mexico's domestic scene is smaller and more concentrated, without the same density of clubs to draw new players from. The gap between the two countries here is best understood as one of built infrastructure rather than of ability: Italy simply has many more courts feeding many more competitive players into its rankings.
Results compared
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
- Italy's tennis federation renamed itself to formally include padel, reflecting how completely the sport has been absorbed into the country's existing tennis infrastructure.
- With the second-largest padel court count in the world after Spain, Italy supports a far wider spread of ranked players across competitive tiers than Mexico's smaller domestic base does.
- Mexico's ranked pool is concentrated in fewer players relative to Italy's much broader base, with comparatively few reaching the sport's higher tiers.
- Much of Italy's court growth has clustered in a single region built around its capital, showing how unevenly even a large domestic scene can be distributed.
Year by year
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
Italy
174 ranked players · 97 men, 77 women
Enzo Jensen
#42
Alvaro Montiel Caruso
#47
Flavio Abbate
#47
Denis Tomas Perino
#67
Facundo Dominguez
#82
Giulia Dal Pozzo
#23
Carolina Orsi
#30
Giorgia Marchetti
#56
Lorena Vano
#73
Caterina Maria Baldi
#80
FIP Platinum Sardegna (2024)
Mexico
116 ranked players · 75 men, 41 women
Camila Ramme Coellar
#69
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.