Elite padel returns to Valladolid with the celebration of the Oysho Valladolid FIP Gold, the first tournament of this category to be held this season in Spain. The Raqueta Club facilities will bring together, from this Tuesday until June 29, more than 250 players of 19 nationalities. Players from Saudi Arabia, the USA, Romania, Algeria, Brazil, Japan and Ukraine, as well as many other European countries, will compete in Valladolid.
The Oysho Valladolid FIP Gold has not only filled the available places in the men’s and women’s teams, but has closed the registration period with a waiting list of around thirty couples, which shows the enormous expectation that the tournament has aroused. , which will distribute 50,000 euros in prizes and 250 points.
The competition will start this Tuesday with the previous rounds and the final draw will take place on Thursday, June 27, with the round of 32 being played in the morning session, and the round of 16 in the afternoon. On Friday it will be the turn of the quarterfinals and the semifinals (morning and afternoon) and on Saturday, June 29, the finals will be held. At 10:00 a.m. the female one and then the male one. Admission will be free until capacity is reached.
A regular in the first rounds of the final draw in the Premier Pádel tournaments, Javi Rico, number 27 in the world, and his partner, Juanlu Esbrí (37) are the number one seeded couple in the men’s draw, while Bea Caldera from Valladolid (FIP ranking 24) and Lorena Rufo (23) will start on pole in the women’s competition. At the Oysho Valladolid FIP Gold there will also be many familiar faces for fans such as the historic Carolina Navarro, Leo Augsburger, Álvaro Cepero or Ana Catarina Nogueira, among others.
The tournament is a reality in Valladolid thanks to the Valladolid City Council, the Regional Government of Castilla y León, the Provincial Council, Oysho, Caja Rural de Zamora, Recoletas, Bullpadel, Cupra, Ambilamp, NH Hoteles, Mondo and Mejor Set, sponsors of this tournament in the Valladolid capital.
