Premier Padel renews Rome, Paris and Qatar Majors at iconic venues

Premier Padel and the International Padel Federation have locked in the Italy Major at Rome’s Foro Italico, the Paris Major at Stade Roland-Garros and the Qatar Major at the Khalifa Complex on multiyear agreements, keeping three of the tour’s biggest stops in some of sport’s most recognizable settings. The renewal matters because the circuit’s 30% rise in broadcast viewership in 2025 shows the venue strategy is doing more than dressing up the product.

Paris remains the clearest example. Roland-Garros has hosted the Paris Major since 2022, turning the Grand Slam’s clay-season identity into a padel stage with glass walls and turf. The event is in its fourth edition in 2025, carries 2,000 FIP ranking points and offers more than €1 million in prize money, while the long-term agreement keeps it in Paris through at least 2029. France has more than 2,500 padel courts across 940 venues and over 500,000 active players, so the tournament is not just borrowing prestige from Roland-Garros, it is planting itself in one of the sport’s deepest markets.

Rome gives the same idea a different accent. The Italy Major is heading into its fifth edition at Foro Italico, a site Premier Padel has already framed as the right place for a major final because of its setting and history. The 2024 Rome materials put 2,000 ranking points on the table and said the event drew 25,000 attendees the year before. The 2026 entry list pushed the scale further, with more than 150 pairs and nearly 250 male and female players entered, a sign that Foro Italico has become more than a nice backdrop. It is a recurring stop with its own crowd and its own rhythm.

Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi serves a similar function at the season’s end. Premier Padel has again made the arena the home of the Finals, and the venue welcomed more than 15,200 fans for the title-match atmosphere in 2025. The building’s skyline views and big-event feel help sell padel as a major indoor spectacle, not a niche exhibition. That matters for broadcasters as much as it does for the players, because the sport’s first official season in 2022 already stretched across five continents, reached more than 180 territories, generated a household reach of over 150 million and drew more than 22 million YouTube views.

The Qatar Major at the Khalifa Complex completes the picture. With Rome, Paris and Doha now secured on longer deals, Premier Padel has built a calendar that leans on places fans already recognize, and that recognition is part of the product. The sport has not changed much at the margins. The venues have changed the way it looks, and that has helped change how the world watches.