Sevilla Premier Padel P2, the miracle of Bea and Brea and the first final of Stupaczuk and Di Nenno. Chingalan, wow!

There are feats that seem like miracles and feats that take the path of normality. “It ain’t over ’til It’s over”. Delfi Brea and Bea Gonzalez must have thought that, when in the third set of the semifinal of the Sevilla Premier Padel P2 they were down 5-0 against Alejandra Salazar and Tamara Icardo. A match that seemed over, with Delfi and Bea almost resigned to defeat after two tournaments won in a row, in Puerto Cabello and Brussels. The rest is history: four match points cancelled, seven games in a row, in what is so far the most incredible match of the season. After three hours and 3’, Brea and Gonzalez fell to the ground, from fatigue but also from happiness: on Sunday, at 4 p.m., they will be able to continue their series of titles, although Bea has already achieved one result, overtaking Gemma Triay and becoming from next Monday number 3 in the FIP ranking. If that of Brea and Gonzalez is like a sport miracle, Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan have twice in one week turned what might have seemed a miracle into normality: for the second time in seven days, between Brussels and Sevilla, Chingotto and Galan (who thus retains the second position in the FIP ranking) beat Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia, the dominators of the 2023 and 2024 season. The 8,000 fans at the Estadio de la Cartuja enjoyed a great day, which ended with the only victory in two sets, 6-3 7-5, but it came in a spectacular match and one that gives an unusual final in Premier Padel 2024

WHAT A CHALLENGE Yes, because at the sixth attempt the ‘Superpibes’ made it. After four eliminations in the semifinals and one in Brussels in the quarters, Franco Stupaczuk and Martin Di Nenno at the Estadio de la Cartuja will play their first final of the season. In Sevilla, the fans were all or almost all for home idol Paquito Navarro and Juan Lebron, the number 2 seed in the Sevilla Premier Padel P2, but the ovation given to the four players at the end of the match was the most beautiful message of fair play and sport. After an hour and 45 minutes of show, the Argentinians won, able to reset after losing the second set 6-3 (7-5 the first for Stupa-Di Nenno) and to win the decisive break at 5-3 in the third set. And at the time of the post-match interview, so good, balanced and fair had the match been, Stupaczuk and Di Nenno also wanted the losers on the microphone. “I would have liked to win at home – said Paquito –. But I hope to do it next year. Enjoy the show anyway”. Among the women, however, after the defeat in Brussels a week ago Paula Josemaria and Ari Sanchez regained a final that had been missing since the Ooredoo Qatar Major in Doha. The number 1 in the FIP ranking and on the Sevilla draw were able to take revenge in the first semifinal played in La Cartuja against Gemma Triay and Claudia Fernandez (3), who had won in Belgium. Josemaria and Sanchez, who will chase their third title of the season after Riyadh and Doha, won 6-3 4-6 6-3 in a tight match that lasted two hours and 15 minutes.