{"id":669020,"date":"2026-01-02T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/669020\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:16:10","slug":"alsdorf-the-new-era-of-the-nextgen-starts-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/669020\/","title":{"rendered":"Alsdorf, The new era of the NextGen starts from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 season of the <strong>FIP<\/strong> tournaments starts this weekend, with more than 80 young players ready to compete in the Under 18, Under 16, Under 14 and Under 12 categories in <strong>Alsdorf<\/strong>, where the <strong>FIP Promises Aachen Euregio Cup<\/strong> is scheduled. This is the first big event of this year and the absolute debut of the <strong>FIP Promises Continental-Europe<\/strong>. So, the new era of the circuit of the <strong>International Padel Federation<\/strong> starts in <strong>Germany<\/strong>. This era will be completed in 2027 with the introduction of a global Under 18 circuit, reserved for the NextGen. From this year, the global structure will be organized into continental competitions in all categories (<strong>FIP Promises Europe<\/strong>, <strong>FIP Promises America<\/strong>, <strong>FIP Promises Asia\/Oceania<\/strong> and <strong>FIP Promises Africa<\/strong>), with men\u2019s and women\u2019s rankings for all categories and Finals divided by continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new format that aims to promote competition and growth at a global level, while increasing accessibility and participation of young padel fans all over the world. This confirms the growth trend of recent years, which saw the <strong>FIP Promises<\/strong> circuit go from 3 tournaments organized in 2021 to 90 in 2025, with a total of 537 draws played (313 men\u2019s and 224 women\u2019s) by 4,759 young players from 62 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 season of the FIP tournaments starts this weekend, with more than 80 young players ready to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-669020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115825697289029884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}