Women's Players Association on WPT: ”Abusive practices must be banished from padel”

Through a statement from the Players' Association (IPPA), the ladies took a stand in the conflict with WPT. The players complained of being pressured by the circuit to sign the contracts.

For the first time since the new offer received by WPT, the girls take a stand in the players vs. World Padel Tour conflict.

A few days ago, Alejandro Galan presided over the PPA had accused the World Padel Tour of pressuring players without a current contract to sign the new offer. Otherwise, they would not be able to participate in the next season's tournaments.

Now the girls are joining this complaint through an official statement of their association IPPA, reporting the same situation.

The association chaired by Lucia Sainz was very clear in the letter, pouring harsch concepts against WPT (SetPoint Events), whom she accused of ”violating the most basic principles of good faith in sport” exercising a position of prevalence being deserving of "the greatest of reproaches, of morality and sporting ethics."

”The abusive practices of the past must be banished.”

WPT had said that the players were free to sign (or not) the contract. But players who do not do so may not participate in the next season's tournaments, for the IPPA is no longer freedom. 

”Each player without a contract is free to join or not to join the Tour. However, the conditions for such joining have been elaborated, drafted, and imposed unilaterally by WPT/SPE, and if the players do not accept them, they do not play in the Tour. Is that freedom?” the statement reads.

The letter concludes: 

"The abusive and dominant practices of the past must be banished from the sport of padel, for the good of the sport, the players, and all those who want the best for padel."