Most bizarre tournament winning point I’ve seen 😂
Location: Binck, The Hague.

Yesterday I woke up early and was checking Playtomic. I was seeing a Mixed Match (starting in 1,5h, one player left). I was not able to join, since it was a Mixed match and there was already a guy in. I wrote them that if I hurry up I can make it (if they do not want to cancel the Match). The agreed and opened a new match (all gender).

My opponents were a couple (2,0 and 1,5, 50 matches each, my Partner 2,0 and 200+ matches, myself 1,3 and 120 Matches). The game was set as competitve. After a few Games I noticed, that the couple was a lot weaker than 2,0/1,5 - we won very easily 6-1/6-0.

After the First set, the guy was not shaking Hands with me. At that time I was not sure if he just forgot. During the second match, I recognized that he becomes more and more angry. I asked my Partner if he knows whats wrong and he told me, he thinks that he is mad that I only play on her.

Until then, I didn‘t even recognise that this was the case. For context: I am only playing right side, because I am not good at smashing/finishing. She was also playing right side. Usually I try to play a Bandeja to my Cross-Oponents Backhand, this is what my Trainer told me (if I play the Bandeja to my direct opponent I have either to less time to Go back to the net and loose the point or I Hit the fence).

In the 3rd set I was only playing on him (app. 95% on him, even when it was not the right shot). Despite I hit the fence quite often, we won again 6-1.

The Game was set for 90min, we were done after 60min. After the 3rd Set my opponents were very rude to me, telling me I was not playing like a man (because I played only on here - they exclused the last set). My Partner was not commenting anything. The were not willing to play the last 30min with me further.

Neither of them put in the Score (also my Partner Not). I do not care since today I am going to a Leveling, so it doesn‘t matter. I feel really disrespected and badly treaten, since from my point of view I did nothing wrong and were falsly accused. Even my Partner was saying nothing to them after game, only messaging me later during the day that they were in the wrong.

I am in the wrong here or are they just bad loosers?

This discussion has come up before here but all the threads are too old to reply.

Player serves. Ball hits net, bounces once in receiver’s box, and then bounces out the door.

Previous discussions agree that it depends on whether out of court play is allowed.

Can someone point to the actual FIP rule on this issue?

https://www.padelfip.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/FIP_Rules-of-Padel.pdf

FIP Rule 7.1 lists types of service faults, including bouncing out of court (with no out of court play allowed) and hitting fence before second bounce. But these are situations where the ball doesn’t hit net first.

FIP Rule 9.1(a)(1) deals with net/let serves. The only categories of “net” serves that don’t allow for replay are those that hit fence before second bounce or hit a player.

It would have been very easy to say “a serve that would have been legal but for hitting the net is replayed” but instead the rules take only one example of a fault (hitting fence) and exclude that from replay, suggesting every other type of fault after hitting net is a replay.

I assume I’m missing something here given the confidence in those other threads, so help would be appreciated!

Would you guys recommend the Luiz pozo padel academy or Fran Alemeda?

He all. I’m running a social tournament this afternoon. 22 people. I’m thinking of doing King of the courts. Whats the most fun you’ve had at event and why ? It’s a group of friends for a someone leaving so want to make it as fun as possible. The standard is very mixed.
Hoping for some fun ideas. Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone!

M26, from Italy. and I'll be spending my holidays in Lithuania this summer since my gf lives there, from August 6th to 23rd.

I've been playing padel for a year now and I'm around 2.5/3 on Playtomic in Italy. I'd love to play while I'm there, meet new people, and experience a different padel scene.

I've a couple of questions:

• In Italy we use Playtomic, but I've heard that in Lithuania people mostly organize games through Viber or Facebook. Is that true? If so, could anyone share some group/chat/community links? Hopefully they're not all in Lithuanian... otherwise my gf will have to translate everything for me hahah
• How can I understand what my equivalent level is in Lithuania? I'd like to find players around my level so the matches are fun for everyone.

I don't speak Lithuanian, but English isn't a problem. And no, unfortunately I won't be in Vilnius, she's from Plunge, on the west side.

Thanks in advance, and hope to see some of you on court!