Russia
vs
Spain
in Professional Padel
The centre of the sport against its periphery. Spain holds the circuit, the academies and a playing class deep enough that its ordinary ranked players would lead most nations. Russia is one of padel's newer and more isolated scenes, measuring itself against that standard from a considerable distance and with a complicated route to it.
Results compared
Titles
415
Ranked players
649
Players in top 10
14
Players in top 50
71
Players in top 100
132
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 hosts most of the professional calendar and supplies most of the tour's players.
- Russia's players face practical obstacles reaching European draws that have nothing to do with their standard of play.
- Spain's advantage is depth of coaching and club culture, which is the slowest thing for any nation to build.
- Almost every serious professional in the sport spends part of the year training in Spain.
Year by year
Russia
Spain
titles won
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47
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28
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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
Spain
649 ranked players · 404 men, 245 women
Gemma Triay Pons
#1
Beatriz Gonzalez Fernandez
#3
Paula Josemaria Martin
#4
Ariana Sanchez Fallada
#5
Claudia Fernandez Sanchez
#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
109
World Padel Tour
2013–2023 ended
titles
183
Padel Pro Tour
2006–2012 ended
titles
123