Coello/Tapia into semifinals despite a set lost. On Saturday Lebron/Galan take on Chingotto/Navarro

Lebron/Galan-Chingotto/Navarro and Coello/Tapia-Nieto/Sanz. These will be the two eagerly awaited semifinals of the Greenweez Paris Major Premier Padel men’s tournament, which is exciting the French capital on the courts of Roland Garros.

On the Philippe Chatrier court, Juan Lebron and Ale Galan took their revenge against Mike Yanguas and Fernando Belasteguin, who had beaten them in the quarter finals in Rome. This time it was the number 1 seeded couple who prevailed, in an exciting and tight match, especially in the first set. Ahead 5-4 and with service at their disposal, El Lobo and Galan missed five set-points, but then managed to win 7-2 at the tie-break after having missed a sixth; two breaks in the second set made the final 6-2 for the Spanish players, at their second semi-final in a row in the Premier Padel circuit.

An excellent performance by Fede Chingotto and Paquito Navarro, who left the crumbs to the number 8 seed, the Argentinian pair Maximiliano Sanchez and Luciano Capra. The Rome and Madrid finalists, seeded number 4 on the draw, gave up just three games to their opponents (6-1, 6-2) to regain a semi-final that they missed at Premier Padel P1 in Mendoza, Argentina.

In Mendoza – as well as in Rome and Madrid – Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia triumphed: today they struggled a little to get into the match. Opposing Victor Ruiz and Lucas Bergamini, the number 9 seeded players in the draw, the Spaniard and the Argentine lost the first set and immediately went a break down. But the two champions found each other again and from then on they strung together a 12-2 winning game streak, closing 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 in one hour and 44 minutes.

Between the multi-titled Coello and Tapia and another final there is the Spanish pair Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz, who – after surprising Momo Gonzalez and Sanyo Gutierrez – made the odds count against their fellow José Antonio Diestro and Javier Leal, despite losing the first set: 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 was the final score in over two hours of a very tough match. Steady growth and a super tournament for Nieto and Sanz, who had already defeated the Argentine Superpibes, Martin Di Nenno and Franco Stupaczuk.