How padel world rankings work (and where to find them)

There are two things most casual padel players can’t tell you: who’s currently ranked number one in the world, and whether they themselves have an official rating. Both are knowable, and both are worth understanding if you want to follow the professional game or find out where you sit as a player.

Padel’s ranking ecosystem has layers: a world tour ranking, a separate international federation circuit, British players scattered across both, and a domestic rating system for UK players. Here’s how they fit together.

The FIP world rankings

The FIP (Fédération Internationale de Padel) world rankings are padel’s primary global ranking system. They govern who qualifies for which events, how draws are seeded, and who earns a national team call-up.

Points accumulate from FIP-sanctioned tournaments across the global calendar. The most valuable events are the Premier Padel Majors – the biggest events on the tour, attracting the full elite field. Below those sit P1 and P2 events, which carry fewer points but give lower-ranked players a route to accumulate. FIP Silver and FIP Bronze events sit further down the calendar: more accessible, more widely distributed geographically, and a clear path for players in the top 100–200 range.

Your FIP ranking is calculated from your best results over the previous 52 weeks. It updates after every sanctioned tournament. You can find the current rankings at padelfip.com.

As of April 2026, Agustín Tapia and Arturo Coello are joint world number one on the men’s side, each on 20,910 points. They play together as a pair, which is why their totals match – in padel, partners compete together and share the points earned at each event. On the women’s side, Gemma Triay and Delfina Brea hold the top spot jointly with 17,300 points.

The Premier Padel circuit

Premier Padel is the professional tour – the series of events that makes up the elite competitive season. It operates under FIP sanction and is where the world’s best players compete from January through to the season-ending final.

The circuit runs Major events and a series of P1 and P2 tournaments across the globe. Points earned at Premier Padel events feed directly into the FIP world ranking. There’s no separate Premier Padel ranking – winning a Major earns you FIP points, which shift your position in the world standings.

The easiest way to track the tour is through premierpadel.com, which carries the live schedule, draw results, and ranking tables. For broadcast, Premier Padel events appear on various streaming platforms depending on your territory – the guide to watching padel in the UK covers the options for British viewers.

British players in the world rankings

The UK has a small but growing cohort of players in the international rankings. The two names to know are Aimee Gibson and Catherine Rose.

Gibson became the first British padel player – man or woman – to break into the FIP top 100 in January 2025. By February 2026 she was ranked in the 80s, following a strong run of FIP Silver and Bronze events. She and Catherine Rose have won back-to-back FIP Silver titles, including the Australian Padel Open in Sydney in early 2026.

Rose followed Gibson into the top 100 later in 2025, making her the second Brit to achieve it. The pair compete primarily on the FIP circuit – the international federation tour that runs alongside the Premier Padel calendar and gives players outside the world’s top 40 or so a competitive structure to operate in.

Gibson and Rose have their own write-ups on this site: Aimee Gibson’s CMG signing covers her rise on the professional circuit, and Catherine Rose’s FIP title win goes into detail on her recent form.

How rankings and seedings differ

A ranking is your position in the world standings based on accumulated points. A seeding is what a tournament draws committee uses to structure their draw.

In most FIP events, seedings follow rankings closely – the top 8 or 16 pairs are seeded and placed to meet only in later rounds. In Premier Padel Majors, seedings are set in advance for each event and can sometimes diverge slightly from the live ranking depending on when the draw is made and which players have entered.

The practical effect for spectators: a number one seed isn’t always the world number one pair if the ranking changed recently. For almost all events, though, the top seeds and the top-ranked players are the same people.

LTA ratings for UK players

If you play padel in the UK and want to know where you sit as a player, the LTA Padel Rating is the system to look at.

The LTA uses a numeric scale from 1.0 to 7.0, mirroring the system widely used in Spain. The scale has descriptors at each level: 3.5 covers tennis or squash players who are new to padel and have basic control; 4.0 is for players with good court coverage and an understanding of padel tactics; 4.5 for those with a strong tactical grasp and consistent technique; 5.0 for experienced tournament players. The 6.0 level sits outside the professional top 250 on the men’s side or top 150 on the women’s side – so most recreational players sit in the 3.5–4.5 range.

To get a rating, you need an LTA Padel membership and a session with a local affiliated padel coach, who assesses your level and records it against your membership number. The rating can be updated as you improve.

Separately, the LTA Padel Tour runs its own ranking points system for competitive players: points are awarded at all LTA Padel Tour and LTA Padel Senior Tour events, based on your best six results in the previous 52 weeks. This is for players who compete in structured LTA tournaments, separate from the recreational rating system.

Americano leaderboards and club rankings

Below the LTA level, most regular players operate through club Americano nights or social sessions with informal leaderboards. These carry no official standing – they’re a way for venues to track relative form among regulars and seed Americano draws fairly.

Apps like Playtomic and SMASHD have built their own rating systems based on results within the platform. These sit outside the LTA system and give players a relative sense of where they stand against others booking the same courts. SMASHD launched its rating system in 2026 with the explicit goal of making skill-matched games easier to find.

If you play Americano regularly at the same venue, those sessions are how you build a local reputation. If you want that to translate to an official number, the LTA rating is the step to take.