{"id":15333,"date":"2026-08-08T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/portugal-padel-team-well-represented-at-the-xx-mediterranean-games\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:03:07","slug":"portugal-padel-team-well-represented-at-the-xx-mediterranean-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/portugal-padel-team-well-represented-at-the-xx-mediterranean-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Padel Team well represented at the XX Mediterranean Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a <strong>serious injury <\/strong>suffered in early January 2026, <a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/player\/miguel-deus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Miguel Deus (101)<\/span><\/strong> <\/a>spent more than five months away from the courts. Now, less than a month before the debut of padel as a medal sport, <strong>his name appears on the list <\/strong>of the Portuguese Olympic Committee for the <strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/taranto-2026-el-padel-debuta-en-el-programa-de-los-xx-juegos-del-mediterraneo\/\">XX Mediterranean Games Taranto 2026.<\/a><\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The reunion with the court took place at the end of May this season, alongside his brother, <strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/player\/nuno-deus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nuno Deus (85)<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, <strong>also selected for the tournament<\/strong>. Despite having only two and a half months of play after the recovery period, Miguel assures he is &#8220;100% adapted to the competitive pace.&#8221; The brothers, who in <strong>July 2025<\/strong> made history by becoming <strong>the first Portuguese players to enter the top 40 of the International Padel Federation (FIP)<\/strong> world ranking, raise high expectations for this event, which <strong>will be held from August 22 to 28<\/strong> at the <strong>Salinella Mediterranean Park<\/strong>, in the municipality of Taranto, Italy.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>The male squad is completed <\/strong>with <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/player\/pedro-araujo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pedro Ara\u00fajo<\/strong> <\/a>and <a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/player\/pedro-graca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pedro Gra\u00e7a<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, regular partners on the court and currently ranked 124th and 156th in the FIP ranking, respectively. In the women&#8217;s draw, the experience of the veteran <a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/player\/ana-catarina-nogueira\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Ana Catarina Nogueira (60)<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and the intensity of the current highest-ranked Portuguese player, <strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/player\/sofia-araujo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sofia Ara\u00fajo (8<\/a>)<\/span><\/strong>, stand out. Regarding the <strong>mixed category<\/strong>, the pair representing Portugal is made up of the siblings <strong>Sofia and Pedro Ara\u00fajo.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal confirms its padel team selection for Taranto 2026: Ana Catarina Nogueira, Sofia Ara\u00fajo, Miguel Deus, Nuno Deus, Pedro Ara\u00fajo, and Pedro Gra\u00e7a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15335,"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":[173],"class_list":["post-15333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brief-news","tipo-de-competicion-mediterranean-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333","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=15333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"clasificacion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clasificacion?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"pais","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pais?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-de-torneo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-de-torneo?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-de-competicion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-de-competicion?post=15333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}