GB RANKING2
FIP RANKING184
FIP CAREER HIGH
26/08/2024 162
TITLES1
Last updated: 09/12/2024
FAVOURITE
SHOT: Backhand volley
COACH
Jacabo Perez, Xavi de Benito, Paula Eyheraguibel and Mauri Andrini
AGE24
HEIGHT180 cm
PLAYSRight-handed
FAVOURITE
SHOT:Backhand volley
COACH
Jacabo Perez, Xavi de Benito, Paula Eyheraguibel and Mauri Andrini
Get to know
About
Quick-fire facts
- Place of birth: London
- Lives: Dubai
- Trains: Spain and Dubai
- Hobbies / interests: Football and traveling
- Padel idol: Sanyo Gutiérrez
- Favourite tournament: World Padel Championships and Rome Premier Major
- Best opponent faced: Juan Lebron and Ale Galan
- Biggest title of career: Fip Rise Australia
Padel beginnings
Jones first started playing padel at the age of 14 at David Lloyd Chigwell and often used to play as a warm-up for tennis as a junior.
An avid sports fan throughout his life, Jones has always enjoyed racket sports and instantly fell in love with padel and competing with his friends.
Favourite moments
Jones's favourite memory on tour was playing at the FIP Premier event in Rome, where he and fellow Brit Christian Medina Murphy reached the second round.
Recently, Jones and Murphy also joined forces to clinch an all-important win against Germany to qualify for the 2022 World Padel Championships.
Jones made his debut for Great Britain at the Junior World Padel Championships in 2015.
Off-court
The young Brit enjoys shopping, going out for dinner and travelling to new countries. When he's on tour, he likes hanging out with his teammates and is good friends with fellow Brits Nikhil Mohindra and Louie Harris.
If he wasn't a padel player, Jones's dream would have been to become a footballer.
Padel Career
Results
| Tournament | Round |
| November | |
| FIP Promotion Houten III | Semi-finals |
| FIP Rise Manila | Runner-up |
| September | |
| FIP Rise Sweden V | Round of 32 |
| July | |
| European Padel Championships | Seventh place |
| June | |
| FIP Gold Valladolid | Qualifying - R3 |
| May | |
| FIP Rise Bapadel Barcelona | Round of 32 |
| April | |
| FIP Rise Monaco | Round of 16 |
| February | |
| FIP Rise Kaunas | Round of 32 |
August
Jones kicked-off August with an appearance at the HOP London Padel Open where he competed alongside Spain's Iago Gonzalez Nino. The British, Spanish duo reached the quarter-final before losing out to Navarro Perez and Gonzalez 6-3, 6-3.
July
Moving on to the FIP Rise Osaka event, Jones joined forces with Nikhil Mohindra where the pair reached the final six before bowing out to Abdulla Alhiji and Martin Noschese - 4-6, 7-5, 7-5.
June
In June, Jones once again teamed up with Harris for the LTA Padel British Tour event at Stratford Padel Club.
The all-British team battled through a strong line-up to reach the finals and set up a meeting with Spanish pair Rafael Vega and Alvaro Pecos. Here, Harris and Jones wrapped up a comprehensive 6-2, 6-4 victory to take the crown.
April
Jones then teamed up with Iago Gonzaez Nino for the FIP Rise Rocks Lane Chiswick event where the pair reached the quarter-finals before losing out to Spanish duo Francisco Miguel Ramierez Navas and Emilio Sanchez Chameron in a 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 loss.
March
Jones and Harris once again joined forces at the We Are Padel event. The all-British duo enjoyed a run to the men's final where they just missed out on the title to Richard Brooks and Spain’s Mario Cerezo. Despite a tight first set featuring a 16-point tie-break, it was Brooks and Cerezo who had the edge in the second to wrap up the title 7-6(7), 6-3.
February
Sam Jones teamed up with fellow Brit Louie Harris for the first event of the 2023 LTA Padel British Tour at Surge Padel in Harrogate, where they made it to the final. Here, Harris and Jones come out on top against the third seeds Alfonso Patacho and Chris Salisbury - clinching a 6-2, 6-7(0), 6-3 victory to claim the title.
- Representing GB
- Winning the final and deciding match to qualify for the Dubai World Padel Champships,
- Going to places like Australia, Vegas, Miami, Dubai, Mexico Italy to play padel
- Sharing the court with Sanyo Gutiérrez in an exhibition match
- Being ranked inside the top 200 in the world
- 3rd in the European championships (Rome 2019) and World Junior Padel Championships (Mexico 2015)
- Winning the FIP RISE Australia
- Becoming one of the youngest ever to represent Great Britain
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FIP RISE Australia
- Numerous British Tour titles
