The Île-de-France region is gradually establishing itself as a stronghold of international padel

Just a few years ago, the Île-de-France region was merely a peripheral area on the global padel map. In the space of two seasons, the dynamics have changed dramatically. From 2026 onwards, four international tournaments will be organised in the Paris region, confirming a gradual but now well established increase in power.

By 2025, the region had already reached a major milestone with the Alpine Paris Major, one of the four of the world's most important tournaments, welcomed within the premises of Roland Garros and the famous FIP Promises Paris by WME. In 2026, a new milestone will be reached.

Marnes-la-Coquette, a new strategic anchor point

Only at 11 kilometers from Roland-Garros, the club Forest Hill of Marnes-la-Coquette (Hauts-de-Seine) will become a central site of the FIP circuit in Île-de-France. Two international tournaments will be organised there in 2026, a case that is still rare on a European scale.

FIP Bronze Marnes – May 18-24, 2026

Marnes-la-Coquette will host an international tournament for the first time with a FIP Bronze scheduled for the spring.
This event will mark the city's official entry into the FIP circuit (outside of FIP Promises Paris) and will constitute the first of the international events organized in Île-de-France in 2026, excluding Paris Major.

The tournament will take place at Forest Hill, with the aim of establishing a regular event on the international calendar.

FIP Silver Marnes – August 31 to September 6, 2026

A few months later, the same site will host a FIP Silver, positioned in a particularly strategic way, just before the Alpine Paris Major.
A rare double win for the same destination, which illustrates a clear desire to establish a lasting presence in the international padel scene.

This positioning could attract a very dense plateau, particularly among men, with over a hundred pairs potentially registered, in view of the concentration of European players present at that time and the immediate proximity of the Paris Major.

This FIP Silver will thus open a sequence of two consecutive weeks of top-level international padel in Île-de-France.

The Alpine Paris Major, the highlight of the Parisian season

Concerning Alpine Paris Major 2026The official dates have not yet been formally confirmed. However, a period including between September 7 and 13, 2026 is now widely considered.

The tournament director, Arnaud Di Pasquale, had also indicated that this positioning at the beginning of September was intended to to commit for the long term.
The programming of FIP Silver from Marnes-la-Coquette the previous week This reinforces this consistency and almost allows us to confirm this calendar window.

The return of FIP Promises Paris by WME

Another structuring element of the Île-de-France calendar: the FIP Promises Paris by WME, an international tournament dedicated to young people, will also make its return in 2026.
Its first edition, organized in 2025, made a lasting impression and generated a lot of positive feedback, both for the sporting quality and for the exposure offered to new generations.

La The second edition is planned for the second half of 2026., again at Lésigny clubconfirming the desire to make Île-de-France a reference territory also for training and the padel of tomorrow.

An unprecedented focus on the second half of 2026

With FIP Silver of Marnes-la-Coquette, the Alpine Paris Major and FIP Promises Paris by WME, the Île-de-France region could thus accommodate three international tournaments in the second half of 2026 alone.

A configuration unprecedented in France, which demonstrates a progressive but coherent structuring of the calendar, and which could attract both the best players in the world et the hopes of international padel, over a short period of time.

Without excessive fanfare, the Île-de-France region confirms, step by step, its lasting presence in the international padel ecosystem, at all levels of the sports pyramid.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.