Padbol stars from Mallorca will be participating at the Paris 2022 Teqball World Series ©FITEQ

A group of padbol stars from Mallorca are set to make their international competition debut at the Paris 2022 Teqball World Series from March 18 to 20 after being inspired by the Poland 2021 World Teqball Championships.

The Spanish city will also have its first official teqball club soon.

Three-time padbol world champions Juan Alberto Ramón and Juanmi Hernández, as well as current Spanish champion Aquiles Munoz, have been crucial in helping teqball grow in Mallorca.

Munoz was full of praise for how teqball has been promoted so far.

"The leaders of teqball are doing things very well and investing a lot of money - signing stars like Ronaldinho as ambassadors, reaching agreements with football clubs, setting up spectacular competitions that are very well organised and with large prizes," Munoz said.

"The sports team at FITEQ have said they are waiting for us at the World Series and given our level in padbol, they are confident we will be tough to beat in teqball!"

The growth of teqball in Spain has been rapid, with the country participating in all five categories of the Poland 2021 World Teqball Championships.

Aitor Vives Yera in the men’s singles, Silvia Ferrer Garcia in the women’s singles, Javier Asensio Romero Francisco and Javier Santiago Gracia in the men’s doubles, Ferrer Garcia and Judit Tamayo Garcia in the women’s doubles, and Vives Year and Ferrer Garcia in the mixed doubles were Spain’s representatives in Poland.

Padbol was officially launched in Argentina in 2010, and is described by the European Padbol Tour as a "fusion of popular sports such as soccer, tennis, volleyball and squash."