Padel New Zealand Tour 2025 Tauranga - Format and Draws

DRAWS

Method: Randomised draws by The Padel Club NZ.

See draws here: Padel New Zealand Tour 2025 Tauranga Draws

Results & schedule: See results from Day 1 & results and schedule for 2 here

Match & Court list: See the full schedule here of matches and court allocations

Play offs/Medal Rounds: See Medals rounds structures here

Live stream of Court 2 here

TOURNAMENT FORMAT

  • Friday: Check ins, warm up with your partner, get familiar with the courts and club (not required but we'd love to see you there)

  • Saturday & Sunday: Games from morning to evening (required to attend for all players)

    Categories:

  • A Grade Men

  • A Grade Women

  • B Grade Men

  • B Grade Women

    Total number of players: 90

    Match format:

  • Pool play - Top 2 qualify for playoffs/Finals round

  • Two sets, tiebreak if 1-1; tiebreak to 7 points(if 6-6, win by 2 max to 11)

  • Golden point(no deuce)

  • Games won will be used for tie breaker in the pools

  • No on-court referees – players self-ref, overseen by a floating Head of Referees between courts

    Men's A Grade

    16 Teams: Pool Play - 4 pools of 4 - Teams play 3 games in their pool - Best 2 in each pool qualify for Quarter Finals

    Men's B Grade

    16 Teams: Pool Play - 4 pools of 4 - Teams play 3 games in their pool - Best 2 in each pool qualify for Quarter Finals

    Women's A Grade

    8 Teams: Pool Play - 2 pools of 4 - Teams play 3 games in their pool - Best 2 in each pool qualify for Semi Finals

    Women's B Grade

    5 Teams: Round Robin - Teams play 4 games to determine rankings then play Final 1st vs 2nd. 3rd vs 4th will be the 3rd place final

RANKING POINTS

All Padel New Zealand’s tournaments will have Ranking Points.

  • Points will be awarded at each tournament based on match results.

  • Rankings will be updated on our website after each event.

  • Full details on how points are calculated and used can be found here. 

REFEREEING

Tournament will be managed without referees involved in each game.

There will be a Head of Referees appointed by Padel New Zealand who will work together with the Event Organiser to ensure that players are able to referee their own games.

Please request the CODE OF REFEREEING WITHOUT A REFEREE for full details.