The IPT's first ever British stop on its calendar of worldwide competitions is set to attract disabled and non-disabled players from all over the world.

What is the Inclusive Padel Tour?

The Inclusive Padel Tour (IPT) is a global circuit of amateur padel tournaments that aims to grow participation in the sport among disabled people.

The ethos of the IPT is for disabled and non-disabled people to have fun together and to give disabled players a platform to compete for pleasure and prize money.

Each pairing in IPT events features one disabled and one non-disabled player, with specially adapted rules depending on the player's category of disability.

How does the Inclusive Padel Tour work?

Each team is composed of one non-disabled player and one 'bionic' (disabled) player; defined as either a prostheses, wheelchair-user or a player with 'obvious motor limitations'.

Bionic players get two bounces - unless their disability is in the upper body or a transtibial (below the knee) prosthesis - while non-disabled partners only get one bounce.

Events are organised into groups of three to five teams, with the top teams from each group going through to knockout stages.

As well as prizes on offer at each event, participation in an IPT tournament earns 15 points for attendance, each game won earns one point and a tournament win earns 40 points, with 20 point for second place. There are overall rankings of points earned throughout the year with prizes for the top bionic players.

The 2025 Inclusive Padel Tour calendar

Maidenhead on Saturday 20 September is the seventh stop on the 10-date tour of IPT competitions in 2025.

Events so far this year have included Rome, Miami, Nice, Venice, Lugano and Palma, with Milan, Turin and Dubai coming up in the autumn following the British leg.

The Maidenhead event will also feature social and community events over the course of the weekend.

Who are the players competing?

Great Britain has several players who regularly travel the world to compete on the IPT and will revel in the opportunity to play on home soil in Maidenhead.

The inspirational Kristen Paskins plays at Padel Maidenhead and was instrumental in bringing the IPT to Britain. Her distinctive pink hair is a regular sight on the IPT as she has already competed in Venice, Milan, Dubai, Miami and Logano this year alone. She is a passionate ambassador for inclusive padel since abruptly becoming a wheelchair user three years ago due to functional neurological disorder.

GB no.1 wheelchair player Jack Binstead is a familiar face on the British padel scene — in fact, he's a familar face to millions as the star of the Jack Whitehall-fronted BBC sitcom Bad Education. He is a whole-hearted advoacate for the sport and plays alongside friend and fellow padel coach Luke Dolphin on the IPT.

Yorkshireman Andrew Simister was the first British amputee to play on the IPT when he competed in Milan in February 2024. Andrew, who lost his right leg in a road accident in 2022, usually plays alongside his son Max.

He says: "As a disabled padel Player, the IPT is an incredible platform to meet and compete on a level playing field against other players from around the world who are also disabled in some way."

A legend of the IPT is its Italian founder Alessandro Ossola, who lost his left leg in a 2015 motorbike accident in which his wife was killed. After that tragedy, he went on to compete in the Paralympics at Tokyo 2020 and later saw the potential padel had for disabled people. The first event was held in Pesaro in 2021 and it has now expanded into a thriving global circuit.