Mexico
vs
Paraguay
in Professional Padel
Mexico is where padel was invented: a wall-enclosed court built at a private home in Acapulco in the late 1960s became the shape every court in the world now copies. Paraguay was never the birthplace, but it joined the sport's first international federation only a year or two after Mexico did, placing both among the earliest nations involved outside Spain and Argentina. Invention has not translated into competitive weight: the country that gave padel its court has built a far larger playing population than Paraguay without producing a comparable depth of ranked professionals, while Paraguayan padel, smaller throughout, has turned a similar starting point into a steadier professional record.
Results compared
Titles
3
Ranked players
14
Players in top 100
2
Players in top 200
2
Players in top 500
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
- Mexico is credited as padel's birthplace, with the first enclosed court built at a private home in Acapulco in the late 1960s.
- Mexico and Paraguay both joined the sport's first international federation within a year or two of one another, among the earliest nations involved outside Spain and Argentina.
- Mexico's huge amateur growth in recent decades has not been matched by a comparable depth of ranked professionals.
- Paraguay's smaller playing population has nonetheless produced a steadier professional record relative to its size.
Year by year
Mexico
Paraguay
titles won
2
3
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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
Mexico
115 ranked players · 75 men, 40 women
Camila Ramme Coellar
#72
Paraguay
14 ranked players · 11 men, 3 women
Martin Abud
#91
FIP Silver Koksijde (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
3