Indonesia and Iran guarantee Asian Games medals as Lyon champions fall in Rotterdam

Indonesia and Iran are sure of Asian Games medals. Both Indonesian women's pairs and both Iranian men's pairs won their quarter-finals in Nagoya on Thursday, which guarantees each country a place on the podium. Kusuma and Sabatini lost only one game against Japan's top seeds Ozawa and Sato, and Putria and Gumulya beat Hong Kong's Chan and Law 6-1, 6-2. Japan still have Tsukamoto and Tokumoto in the women's semi-finals, alongside Abad and Malazarte of the Philippines. In the men's draw, Qatar's Naif and Naif and Malaysia's Chin and Aidan Yunus join the two Iranian pairs. The semi-finals are today. Source: FIP

Libaak and Alfonso knock out the Lyon champions. Tino Libaak and Gonza Alfonso beat seventh seeds Javi Leal and Fran Guerrero 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 in more than two hours at the Rotterdam P2. Padel Addict notes that the win helps the Argentinian pair's case for World Cup selection, though the reward is a quarter-final against Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia, who beat Montiel and Santigosa 6-3, 6-2. Paquito Navarro and Martín Di Nenno dropped only three games against qualifiers Zapata and Naranjo. Source: Padel Addict (Spanish)

Riera and Bidahorria keep going, and Goenaga retires. Virginia Riera and Julieta Bidahorria, winners of two FIP Tour titles in a row before Rotterdam, beat sixth seeds Marina Guinart and Ale Alonso 6-3, 6-7, 6-3. Padel Magazine reports that Carmen Goenaga, who won in Lyon on Sunday, had to stop her last-16 match at 3-0 down with a physical problem carried over from last week. Both French pairs went out: Collombon and Sharifova to Josemaría and González, and Godallier and Valenzuela to Ortega and Araújo. Source: Padel Magazine

Today's quarter-finals. The men's draw has Stupaczuk and Sanz against Galán and Chingotto, Lebrón and Augsburger against Yanguas and Nieto, and Momo González and Lucas Campagnolo against Navarro and Di Nenno. In the women's draw, top seeds Triay and Brea play Alejandra Salazar and Aranza Osoro, Riera and Bidahorria meet Paris Major winners Sánchez and Ustero, and Claudia Jensen and her stand-in partner Claudia Escacena face Claudia Fernández and Martina Calvo. Source: Padel Addict (Spanish)

New pairing starts well at the FIP Gold in Perugia. Top seeds Bergamini and Bautista won their first match together 6-3, 6-4 against Italians Lorenzo Di Giovanni and Giuseppe Fino, and sixth seeds Garrido and De Pascual lost only four games. The women's draw starts today, with Virseda and Fassio seeded first and Italy's Carolina Orsi, Giulia Dal Pozzo and Carlotta Casali all in the field. Source: FIP

Laura Luján's season is over. The 21-year-old from Seville, ranked 47th in the world, was hurt at the FIP Silver in São João da Madeira late last month. Actu Padel reports that tests found bone and ligament damage that will take several months to heal. She had only recently teamed up with Araceli Martínez, with whom she won her first FIP Gold title in Abidjan this year and reached the Bucharest final in September. Luján announced the news on Instagram, saying the break was hard to accept. Source: Actu Padel (French)

Soul Padel starts building in Warrington. Work has begun on three fully covered courts at Birchwood Community Hub, the operator's fifth UK club, in partnership with Warrington Borough Council and its leisure provider LiveWire. A clubhouse with showers and refreshments is part of the plan, along with ten jobs, and opening is expected towards the end of the year. Warrington Worldwide says the east of the town has had no permanent padel courts until now. Source: Warrington Worldwide

A new academy for the Paris suburbs. Padel Match Academy opens on Monday 12 October at a ten-court club in Alfortville, south-east of Paris, with seven indoor doubles courts, one indoor singles court and two outdoors. It will run four programmes, for adult beginners, tournament players, children from five and young competitors, each pairing fitness work with court coaching. Free open days run from 9 to 11 October. Source: Actu Padel (French)