Paraguay
vs
Russia
in Professional Padel
Russia's players lost unimpeded access to the international circuit in 2022, when the war in Ukraine led the sport's governing bodies to cancel events on Russian soil and complicated players' ability to compete abroad under their own flag, even as domestic tournaments in Russia continued regardless. Paraguay, despite representing a far smaller population, has never faced any such restriction, and its players have moved through the full international calendar without interruption. The contrast is not one of size or tradition but of access: Paraguayan padel's players can go wherever the tour goes, while Russian padel's have had to build around a circuit partly closed to them.
Results compared
Titles
0
Ranked players
34
Players in top 50
1
Players in top 100
1
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
- Russian players lost unimpeded international access in 2022, when the sport's governing bodies cancelled events on Russian soil over the war in Ukraine.
- Domestic tournaments in Russia have continued since 2022 even as international access for its players became more complicated.
- Paraguay, despite its much smaller population, has faced no comparable restriction on its players' access to the international tour.
- The gap between the two is shaped more by access to competition than by the underlying size of either padel-playing population.
Year by year
Paraguay
Russia
titles won
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
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
0