{"id":14309,"date":"2026-09-15T01:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/spain-and-portugal-are-off-to-a-good-start-at-the-fip-senior-world-cup-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T01:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:35:42","slug":"spain-and-portugal-are-off-to-a-good-start-at-the-fip-senior-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/spain-and-portugal-are-off-to-a-good-start-at-the-fip-senior-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain and Portugal are off to a good start at the FIP Senior World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/eventos\/fip-senior-world-cup-2026-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>FIP Senior World Cup<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lands in <\/span><b>Buenos Aires<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the first time to celebrate its <strong>fourth edition<\/strong>, after stops in Estepona (2018), Las Vegas (2022), and La Nuc\u00eda (2024). The 2026 tournament kicked off last Friday, September 11, with three intense days of men&#8217;s qualifying. Of the 11 teams that fought for a spot in the final, only 10 made it: Hong Kong fell short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the brackets now set\u2014<\/span><b>32 men&#8217;s delegations <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>26 women&#8217;s delegations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> spread across <\/span><b>five age categories: +40, +45, +50, +55, and +60<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014the <\/span><b>final phase of the world event began on September 14<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For six days, several teams will compete on a stage that honors the sport&#8217;s legacy while proving that talent knows no age. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the <strong>women&#8217;s tournament<\/strong>, <strong>5-0<\/strong> was the undisputed scoreline for the delegations from <strong>Italy<\/strong>, <strong>Portugal<\/strong>, <strong>Argentina<\/strong>, <strong>France<\/strong>, and the <strong>defending champions Spain<\/strong>, who didn&#8217;t drop a single match against Uruguay, Canada, Switzerland, Paraguay, and Lithuania, respectively.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the <strong>men&#8217;s bracket<\/strong>, Spain, Italy, and the <strong>current title defenders, Argentina<\/strong>, didn&#8217;t give their rivals a chance either: they won <strong>5-0<\/strong> against Egypt, Japan, and Uruguay, respectively. <strong>Portugal<\/strong> nearly swept Chile (<strong>4-1<\/strong>), losing only in the +40 category, while <strong>France<\/strong>, with an identical result to the Portuguese delegation, beat Canada <strong>4-1<\/strong>, letting the point slip in the +55 category.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the World Cup final phase kicked off on September 14 with a clean sweep for Spain (5-0) in both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s; Portugal, 5-0 in women&#8217;s and 4-1 in men&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"clasificacion":[],"pais":[],"tipo-de-torneo":[],"tipo-de-competicion":[161],"class_list":["post-14309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brief-news","tipo-de-competicion-world-championship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17633,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions\/17633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"clasificacion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clasificacion?post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"pais","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pais?post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-de-torneo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-de-torneo?post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-de-competicion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-de-competicion?post=14309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}