Qatar take padel's first Asian Games men's gold as Rotterdam finals are set

Qatar's Naif brothers take the men's gold. Mashari and Rashed Naif beat Malaysia's Aidan Yunus and Christian Chin 6-3, 6-1 in Saturday's final at the Higashi Sports Centre in Nagoya, adding an Asian Games title to the FIP Asia Padel Cup they won last year. Malaysia took silver and Iran's Amirmohammad Jamshidi and Farsad Shahi the bronze, after Japan's women had won the first gold earlier in the day. The next Asian Games, in 2030, are in Qatar. Source: FIP

A European circuit for deaf players reaches France. The European Deaf Padel Circuit held its third stage of the year at Casa Padel in Croissy-Beaubourg, east of Paris, from Friday to Sunday, with four men's and three women's divisions and modest prize money for the winners. The non-profit European Deaf Padel Association runs the circuit, which visited Milan and Cologne earlier this year and finishes in Seville on 20 and 21 November. It says 446 athletes from 29 countries have played across three seasons. Source: Actu Padel (French)

The top seeds are out of the women's draw in Rotterdam. Ari Sánchez and Andrea Ustero beat world number ones Delfi Brea and Gemma Triay 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday, a result that gives Sánchez the 100th final of her career. They play Paula Josemaría and Bea González, who beat Claudia Fernández and Martina Calvo 6-3, 6-4 in almost two hours, at 4pm local time today. In the men's draw, Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia beat Momo González and Lucas Campagnolo 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, and Franco Stupaczuk and Jon Sanz dropped only four games against Coki Nieto and Mike Yanguas to reach their first Premier Padel final as a pair. The men's final starts no earlier than 5.30pm. Source: FIP

Top seeds fall in Perugia. At the FIP Gold in Perugia, Spain's Barahona and Sánchez Blasco, ranked 36th and 37th, came from a set down to beat top seeds Lucas Bergamini and Jairo Bautista 3-6, 7-6, 6-4 in the quarter-finals. They face Jiménez and Arroyo today, while Gutiérrez and Chozas meet Jofre and Esbrí. Carolina Orsi won the women's Italian derby against Carlotta Casali. Semi-finals and finals are today on the FIP YouTube channel. Source: FIP

Pakistan hosts its first adult FIP event. The FIP Bronze Pakistan I runs until today at Padelverse in Karachi, with 32-pair draws, 8,500 euros in prize money and seeded pairs from Argentina, Spain and Egypt. Actu Padel reports that the FIP puts Pakistan's amateur players at around 50,000, and that a second FIP Bronze follows in Karachi from 16 to 22 November. Source: Actu Padel (French)

Five new pairs debut at the Germany P2. The Düsseldorf event starts on Monday, with the 28-pair men's main draw from Tuesday. Actu Padel lists five new combinations: Pol Hernández with Manuel Castaño, Guille Collado with Enrique Goenaga, Íñigo Jofre with Juanlu Esbrí, Javi Garrido with Juani De Pascual, and Lucas Bergamini with Jairo Bautista. Hernández and Collado have split after more than a year together, as have Garrido and Bergamini. Four of the five pairs warmed up together at the FIP Gold in Perugia this week. Source: Actu Padel (French)

America passes a million players. Actu Padel rounds up the latest figures for padel in the United States. The Sports and Fitness Industry Association counted 1,073,000 Americans who played padel in 2025, its first national measurement of the sport, with 238,000 of them playing eight times or more. USA Padel counted more than 1,000 courts across 31 states by April, and sanctions 255 tournaments this year against 104 last year. The US Open Padel Championships, which finish in Brooklyn today, carry a 40,000-dollar prize pool, the biggest in the event's history. Source: Actu Padel (French)

A 12-court club for Peterborough. Groove Padel is bringing what it calls the largest club in the East of England to the city this autumn, with ten doubles courts and two singles courts, three of them to championship standard. A café, workspace, gym, Pilates studio and golf simulators are also planned, with around 30 jobs. The operator calls it a seven-figure investment and is selling founder memberships ahead of opening. Source: Peterborough Today

Milton Keynes gets a lakeside club on 17 October. UK PADEL opens six courts at Willen Lake, four of them covered and two open-air, as its fifth club and fourth in Buckinghamshire. All six are usable for adaptive and wheelchair padel, with racket hire, beginner packages from £25 and coaching for all levels. The operator's other sites are Holmer Green, Princes Risborough, Stoke Poges and Newquay. Source: MK Citizen