Mexico
vs
Spain
in Professional Padel
Padel began in Mexico, invented on a private court in Acapulco in the late 1960s by a businessman whose rules were reportedly drawn up by his wife. Within a few years the game crossed to Spain through a guest who had played on that original court and built his own at a hotel on the Costa del Sol, and it was there, not in the country of its invention, that padel grew into a nationwide sport with its own professional structure. Spain now supports the deepest playing population and the most developed competitive pyramid in the sport, spanning every level from club courts to the world's top ranks, while Mexico's scene has stayed closer to its original, more modest scale. The gap is less about talent than about which country turned an invention into an industry.
Results compared
Titles
455
Ranked players
761
Players in top 10
12
Players in top 50
67
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
- Padel's move from Mexico to Spain happened within a few years of its invention, carried by a guest who had played on the original court in Acapulco and then built his own in Marbella.
- Spain now supports a far deeper professional pyramid than Mexico's, with ranked players at every tier from club level up to the world's top ranks.
- Mexico's domestic scene has grown steadily since the sport's early days there, but has not scaled into anything resembling Spain's national infrastructure of clubs and competitive levels.
- Because padel's rules and court design trace directly back to that original Acapulco court, the sport Spain exports today still resembles what was first built in Mexico, even as the playing population moved elsewhere.
Year by year
Mexico
Spain
titles won
2
86
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29
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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
Mexico
116 ranked players · 75 men, 41 women
Camila Ramme Coellar
#69
Spain
761 ranked players · 498 men, 263 women
Gemma Triay Pons
#1
Beatriz Gonzalez Fernandez
#3
Ariana Sanchez Fallada
#4
Claudia Fernandez Sanchez
#5
Andrea Ustero Prieto
#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
149
World Padel Tour
2013–2023 ended
titles
183
Padel Pro Tour
2006–2012 ended
titles
123