The world of padel continues to grow week by week in a stratospheric way, but there are still details that make players rebel against the professional circuit. Example of this is Paquito Navarro, the last to explode against the harsh conditions in which they have to play in certain outdoor tournaments.
The Andalusian, a living legend of the sport, has been the protagonist of a video cut in which he appears, during one of the breaks in a match, harshly reprimanding the chair umpire due to the extreme heat conditions of the GNP Mexico Premier Padel.
“Once again to make the statement that sport is not like thisthat he is going to give us something, that we are playing with a humidity of 90% at 27 degrees in Mexico and that’s it. If I lose I’m going to keep quiet, but if I win and they put the microphone in front of me…”, he begins his anger directed at the match judge.
“It’s not normal, I know it’s not your fault, but we are dying, brother, dying. Until someone dies, they are not going to stop putting us at this hour. What an outrage, they never think about the player“Never,” he says, visibly angry.
These statements from one of the great voices of this sport come after complaints from other players about the same situation experienced in the Middle East. Without a doubt, Paquito’s words are a serious wake-up call for Premier Padel, which will have to rethink its management of schedules in its outdoor matches in extreme heat conditions.