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The best players come together in Murcia next week in Paddle World Tour tournament (09/04/2013)

The best players will meet in the first tournament circuit Padel World Tour, to be held in Murcia from 8 to 14 April.

Games will be played at the club Murcia Town Padel and the Sports Palace.

Councilman Sports, Miguel Cascales, recalled the tradition that has Murcia when great trials and organize sports championships, and has indicated that in the town there are numerous municipal spaces in which thousands of users daily skateboarders as the Pavilion Infante, paddle El Palmar, paddle sports center Sangonera la Seca, and sports centers Cabezo de Torres, Verdolay, JC1 and Fleet.

Paddle World Tour, which opens in the town with the Murcia Open International will be the largest professional circuit in the history of the sport and for the first time take the paddle to new destinations, with four international tests and presence in Europe, Asia, Latin and Arab countries.

This new project, which begins in Murcia, with the participation of the first 76 players in the world ranking, which formalized its contract with Paddle World Tour to participate in all circuit testing.

The Paddle World Tour calendar comprises 14 tournaments in Spanish territory, 4 evidence abroad and a Masters final will be held in Madrid from 16 to 22 December.

Circuit testing will be held in Murcia, Seville, Caceres, Barcelona, â€‹â€‹Madrid, La Coruna, Valladolid, Puerto de Santa María, Malaga, Alicante, Bilbao, Granada, Las Palmas and Valencia.

This tournament has the support of the City of Murcia, Vocento Group and official club circuit Murcia Town Paddle.

In the press conference of presentation has been the Director General of World Paddle Tour, César English, accompanied by the number 1 ranking, Juan Martín Díaz and players Ángel Ruiz Muñoz Federico Gomez and Agustin Quiles.

The overall budget of the Paddle World Tour is 8 million euros and will be delivered over a million and a half euros in prizes.

The testing schedule is:

Round of

Wednesday, 10 April - Paddle Club Murcia Town

8 games will be played from 10 am in Center Court Club

Wednesday April 10 - Sports Palace

8 games will be played from 10 am on center court

Knockout

Thursday April 11 - Sports Palace

Four matches in the morning from 10 am

Four matches in the afternoon after 16 hours

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