PPA: World Padel Tour pressuring players to sign the contracts
The Professional Padel Association (PPA) is going hard after the World Padel Tour in a press release claiming that the circuit is pressuring its players to sign up for the new proposal made by WPT.
There have been many stories about the top men's players on the World Padel Tour. When the WPT called a meeting in Menorca to announce the circuit's new set-up from 2023, the Professional Padel Association (PPA) jointly boycotted attending the meeting calling it a" big failure." The only member of the men's elite to show up was Sanyo Gutierrez.
Now the PPA is issuing yet another joint communique against the WPT. It concerns the contract proposal given to the players from 2023 and five years forward.
According to sources to Padel Alto, the players have until tomorrow to sign the contract with the World Padel Tour. The letter from PPA states the following:
" The WPT circuit is excluding and consequently expelling from their competition the players between positions 1 to 150 of the WPT ranking that currently has no contract in force for the season 2023".
" A threat"
The PPA, which has previously taken a stand against the World Padel Tour and in favor of the new Premier Padel tour run by the International Padel Federation (FIP), claims that the World Padel Tour is threatening players through its contracts.
" WPT is pressuring the group of players without a valid contract to sign a new contract, unilaterally imposed by the circuit, for the next five years. Under the threat that if they do not, they will be expelled from the circuit", states the letter from PPA.
And continues:
" From PPA, we want to clearly and categorically express that we will not accept this kind of pressure. Historically and until this season, which is about to end, the players without contracts have been able to participate normally in the circuit".
