The tournament is going to be held at the Pins Padel Club in Palma and the director and owner of Pins Padel, the former professional tennis player Mateu Palmer, explained that they chose Mallorca because padel is extremely popular on the island and it is a great location for a tournament of this kind. The 14 courts will be closed for the four days of the tournament but the club will be totally open to the public and the organisers want as many people as possible to come and enjoy the event. “The Brisk padel tournament will be a great promotion for Mallorca because approximately 100 international players have been invited , and many of them don’t know the island,” Palmer said.
“There are two levels. In category A there will be players from the International Padel Federation, the World Padel Tour and they will be paired with top players from the Middle East and the rest of the world. That’s the philosophy, to mix European players with those from the GCC and beyond in both the male and female categories.
Category B is open to players who don’t have International Padel Federation (IFP) points and the prizes are 7,500 euros, which is incredible for a tournament of this kind in Mallorca. It’s certainly the biggest prize for amateur padel players in Mallorca, if not the whole of Spain . “We have some of the top 20 players in the world coming and this is the first year of the Brisk tournament here on the island, so we have to get it right, earn the prestige and recogn.