Thailand’s FIP Story: Every Tournament from 2023 to 2026

In November 2023, Thailand hosted its first CUPRA FIP Tour tournament at Blue Tree in Phuket. One venue, one week, and a new entry in the international calendar. Less than three years later, the story has reached Samui, Phangan and the Bangkok area, with returning champions, repeat finals and a first Silver event along the way.

It is still a young history. You can follow the whole thing without needing an encyclopaedia, although a map of Thailand helps. What makes it worth telling is how much has happened between those first trophies in Phuket and the ones handed out in Bangkok in September 2026.

As of 22 September 2026, seven CUPRA FIP Tour tournaments have been completed in Thailand: one in 2023, two in 2025 and four in 2026. Another three are on the calendar for later this year. Each event below includes its men’s and women’s competitions; those are two draws within one tournament.

November 2023: it starts at Blue Tree

The first chapter belongs to Padel Phuket at Blue Tree. FIP Promotion Padel Asia ran from 15 to 19 November 2023, with the main draw played over the final three days. The FIP described it at the time as the tour’s first visit to Thailand.

There were 22 pairs in the men’s competition and 13 in the women’s. The men who left with the title, Martín Noschese and Julián Lacamoire, won four matches without dropping a set. Their final against Thijs Roper and Samuel Jones finished 7–6, 6–2.

The women’s final took a longer route. Japan’s Maiko Kutsuna and Rio Yamada lost the opening set to Patricia García Calderaro and Constanza Sampaio Kokorelis, then turned the match around to win 6–7, 6–1, 7–5. Thailand’s first FIP weekend already had a deciding-set final to remember.

Before there were several Thai destinations to put on a tour schedule, Blue Tree was where players came for the first one. The photographs, the draw and those four champions are the starting point.

2024: the gap in the calendar

There is no Thai tournament in the FIP’s official 2024 calendar. That leaves a gap between the November 2023 debut and the tour’s return in June 2025.

It is tempting, looking at the busier schedule now, to draw a neat upward line from the beginning. The actual record is less tidy, and more interesting: a first event, a year without a Thai stop, then a return to the same venue.

That gap tells us about the international tournament calendar. It does not tell us that local padel stopped, or explain why another FIP event did not take place. The next documented chapter begins back in Phuket.

June 2025: Phuket gets a second chapter

Blue Tree hosted FIP Bronze Phuket from 18 to 22 June 2025. The category on the poster had changed from Promotion to Bronze, and Thailand was back on the tour after roughly nineteen months.

The FIP’s preview reported players from 26 countries in the men’s field. That is a useful reminder of what these events bring together: a lot of different routes through the sport, meeting on a few courts in Phuket for the same ranking opportunity.

Miguel Melero and Nicolás Zurita won the men’s title, beating Santiago Pineda and Cristóbal García 7–6, 6–2 in the final. Daiara Valenzuela and Nika Sluzhiteleva took the women’s trophy with a 6–4, 7–6 win over Carla Fitó and Patricia Araus.

Keep Melero, Zurita and Sluzhiteleva in mind. Their Thai season was not finished. One of the pleasures of following a smaller tour is that names stop being names on an entry list quite quickly. A few months later, they are back in another final and there is already a story attached.

September 2025: Samui joins in

FIP Bronze Reap Samui, held from 25 to 28 September, moved the action to Padel Tropical Samui. Thailand now had a second host destination.

Melero and Zurita were back, and they won again. This time they beat Daniel Blanco and Cristóbal García 6–3, 3–6, 6–2. Two Thai tournaments in 2025, two men’s titles for the same partnership. They had good reason to like playing here.

Sluzhiteleva also returned to a Thai final, now alongside Lucía Fernández. This time the trophy went to Portugal’s Clarinha Santos and Patrícia Ribeiro, who came through 7–6, 2–6, 7–5. Both finals needed three sets; neither was a quick formality for the top seeds.

Looking back, this is where the calendar starts to feel connected. Phuket and Samui had different hosts and different settings, but several of the same players were carrying their seasons from one Thai stop to the next. There was a reason to remember what had happened in June.

May 2026: Samui returns, with two Albas on top

Padel Tropical hosted FIP Bronze Samui from 6 to 10 May 2026. Less than eight months after its debut, Samui was welcoming the tour back.

Alba Pérez and Alba Gallardo won their first title together, beating Camille Sireix and Carmen Azcoitia 6–2, 6–2 in the women’s final. They went through the tournament without dropping a set. For once, remembering both champions’ first names was the easy part.

The men’s final kept things close until the end. Jordi Casanova and Sergio Icardo lost the opening set against Asier Martínez and Héctor Vázquez, then recovered to win 6–7, 7–5, 6–4.

For Martínez and Vázquez, that was a close finish to a run which had included a semifinal win over Antonio Luque and João Caiano. All four names would matter again a few days later. So would both pairs from the women’s final.

The next stop was Phangan. For anyone following the draws, the cast was becoming familiar.

May 2026: Phangan brings a rematch

From 14 to 17 May, Zen Padel Koh Phangan hosted FIP Bronze Phangan. A new island joined Thailand’s FIP record, and the women’s final picked up almost exactly where Samui had left off.

Pérez and Gallardo faced Sireix and Azcoitia again. The result went the same way, but this time it took three sets: 6–1, 3–6, 6–1. Two tournaments in successive weeks, two trophies for the Albas. Anyone who had seen the first final had an obvious reason to follow the second.

In the men’s draw, Luque and Caiano finished the week as champions, defeating Vázquez and Martínez 6–4, 7–5. The Samui semifinalists had become the Phangan winners, while Vázquez and Martínez had reached a second consecutive final.

The title was Caiano’s first on the CUPRA FIP Tour and Luque’s sixth, according to the FIP’s report. That is a detail worth keeping in a historical recap: the same trophy can mark a very different moment in each partner’s career.

September 2026: Phuket returns at WAREHAUS

The tour came back to Phuket for FIP Bronze High Velocity Phuket, listed from 8 to 13 September, with the main draw from 11 to 13 September. This time the venue was WAREHAUS Club in Choeng Thale.

That venue change belongs in the history too. Blue Tree hosted the 2023 debut and the June 2025 return; WAREHAUS hosted this September edition. They are separate contributions to the same island’s FIP story.

Héctor Vázquez, twice a finalist in May, finally appears here on the winning side of a Thai final. Partnering Álvaro López Luque, he beat Mattia Di Bari and Andrés Calzada Felici 6–7, 6–3, 6–3. Another dropped opening set, another recovery, and this time the title.

Elsa Terranova and Angelina Neizvestnaya won the women’s competition, overcoming Jimena Díaz and Alba Vázquez 7–5, 7–5. In the semifinals they had beaten Bo Luttikhuis and Janine Hemmes in three sets.

Remember that semifinal. The next week’s draw had a sequel waiting.

September 2026: Bangkok hosts Thailand’s first Silver

FIP Silver High Velocity Bangkok was listed for 16 to 20 September, with the main draw from 18 to 20 September. It was Thailand’s first Silver tournament, held indoors at PISTA Samakom Racquet & Social Club in Pak Kret, Nonthaburi, in the Bangkok metropolitan area.

The location extended a history that had, until then, been centred on Phuket, Samui and Phangan. For the first time, the Thai schedule also included the Silver category of the CUPRA FIP Tour.

Gonzalo Rubio and Álvaro Montiel Caruso won the men’s title, defeating Ignacio Archieri and Pablo Sánchez Vicente 6–3, 6–3. The FIP credited Rubio with his 17th CUPRA FIP Tour title, extending his record on the circuit. Thailand’s seventh completed event had a particularly experienced champion.

The women’s final supplied the week’s neatest connection to Phuket. Luttikhuis and Hemmes faced Terranova and Neizvestnaya again, having lost to them in the previous semifinal. This time the Dutch pair won 6–4, 6–0.

A week changes quite a lot in padel. Phuket’s champions became Bangkok’s runners-up, and the pair they had beaten on the way to the Phuket trophy got the last word in Thailand’s September double-header.

The people and clubs behind the dates

Following winners through the years is the enjoyable part of an archive. It is also worth looking at the venues under each tournament name. By September 2026, five clubs had hosted these seven events: Blue Tree, Padel Tropical, Zen Padel, WAREHAUS and PISTA Samakom.

Those names keep the history grounded. A new event on a calendar means someone has to make the courts available, put together a working schedule and help visiting players through the week. A final score records the outcome of all that work, but very little of the work itself.

The early records name people too. For the 2023 debut, the FIP’s tournament information listed Gustavo Gio Oriol as tournament director, with Gabriel D’Angelo and Daniel Persson among the player-services contacts. Blue Tree was there at the beginning and again when the tour returned in 2025.

Asia Padel Events belongs to the later chapter. Established in 2025, it features in the official information for Reap Samui and in the organisation of the September 2026 events. The Phuket and Bangkok records list Alenna Dawn as tournament director and Sergi Biurrun as main referee, with Asia Padel Events handling the players’ desk.

So a thank-you belongs to those hosts and organising teams, as well as the players. Each edition has given the next one something to build on. By September 2026, there were quite a few people to thank.

Three more stops are on the 2026 calendar

The account above ends with Bangkok on 20 September. At the time of writing, the official calendar lists three further Thai events:

• 19–25 October: FIP Bronze High Velocity Samui.
• 26 October–1 November: FIP Bronze High Velocity Phangan.
• 23–29 November: FIP Bronze Phuket II.

These are scheduled events, so their results belong to a future update. Dates are the full windows shown in the FIP calendar; qualifying and main-draw schedules can differ. If all three take place, Thailand will finish 2026 with seven tour events in that year alone, and ten since its 2023 debut.

A short history with plenty to follow

For now, the record is seven completed tournaments, with men’s and women’s champions at every stop. It begins with Noschese, Lacamoire, Kutsuna and Yamada in Phuket and reaches Rubio, Montiel, Luttikhuis and Hemmes in the Bangkok area.

Between those bookends are the details that make a circuit worth following: Melero and Zurita winning both Thai events in 2025, Pérez and Gallardo taking two island titles in May, Vázquez coming back after two lost finals, and a Dutch pair turning a Phuket defeat into a Bangkok title a week later.

We have also looked more closely at the people and organisation behind September’s Phuket and Bangkok tournaments. This longer view shows how those weeks fit into a story that started with a single event at Blue Tree.

There is plenty still to find out: which venues become regular stops, which players return, and who adds their name to the winners’ list. For a history that only started in 2023, there is already quite a bit to catch up on.