Americano Padel

Padel Americano ensures everyone plays with and against different participants, creating a balanced and engaging tournament. The rotating partners and opponents format provides variety and helps players improve by adapting to different styles. However, it may not be ideal if there are significant skill level gaps among participants.

Rules of Americano Padel

As mentioned above, the rules for Padel Americano are simple and easy to follow. Here’s a quick overview:

• In Americano tournament each player competes individually, even though you play in pairs.
• Matchups change every round, until everyone has played with everyone.
• Each match is played up to a specific number of points. This can be 12, 24, 32 or any other number you choose. It’s recommended to play Americano to 32 points or to another number that gives an equal number of serves to each player.
• Each team serves 2 to 4 times, then the serve is passed to the opponent.
• Each point won give 1 point to both players in the winning team. Once the match is finished, scores are noted down. For instance, If a match finishes 12-24, both players from the first team get 12 points and both players from the second team get 24 points.
• After all the rounds are played and the scores are entered, the player with the highest score wins the tournament.

Team Americano

You can also play Americano in teams. It follows the same rules as individual Americano, but instead of playing solo, you compete in pre-arranged teams.

Additional Notes

An Americano tournament needs at least 4 players or teams to get started. While there’s no maximum limit on participants, it works best when the total number can be divided evenly by four.

• The number of courts needed depend on the number of players: ideally you’d want to have one court per four players.
• Mixing skill levels is okay, but in case of players with large skill gaps, consider separate groups or try Mexicano format instead.
• Typical Americano lasts about 2 hours, with each 24-point match taking roughly 10 minutes.

How PadelMix can help

PadelMix is the mobile app for managing Padel tournaments. It can help you create and run an Americano tournament for any number of players. The app will automatically generate the match schedule, keep track of scores, and calculate the final results.

Download PadelMix and start organizing your next Padel tournament!