Paraguay
vs
Spain
in Professional Padel
Spain is the country that gave the professional game its template: the sport's modern competitive structure took shape there from the 1970s onward, and no nation comes close to its combined depth of clubs, players and ranked professionals. Paraguay joined the international federation only a little later, as one of the first affiliates outside the game's Spanish-speaking core, but never built outward at anything like the same scale. The comparison is less a contest than a measure of what six decades of institutional investment can do against three decades of steady, modestly resourced growth; Spanish padel set the standard that Paraguayan padel has spent its own history working toward.
Results compared
Titles
454
Ranked players
762
Players in top 10
13
Players in top 50
69
Players in top 100
130
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
- Spain's padel structure dates to the 1970s and has no real competitor in combined club, court and player numbers.
- Paraguay affiliated with the international federation only a little after Spain, making both relatively early adopters despite the gap in scale.
- Spain's depth comes from decades of institutional investment that Paraguay's smaller, later-resourced federation has not had the chance to match.
- The two countries' positions say more about the scale of investment each received than about how long either has played the sport.
Year by year
Paraguay
Spain
titles won
3
85
—
29
—
27
—
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
Paraguay
14 ranked players · 11 men, 3 women
Martin Abud
#91
FIP Silver Koksijde (2026)
Spain
762 ranked players · 498 men, 264 women
Gemma Triay Pons
#1
Beatriz Gonzalez Fernandez
#3
Ariana Sanchez Fallada
#4
Paula Josemaria Martin
#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
148
World Padel Tour
2013–2023 ended
titles
183
Padel Pro Tour
2006–2012 ended
titles
123