Day 5: Delfi and Bea are back: final against Alonso-Ustero

In Valladolid and Paris, Delfi Brea had played as a partner with Andrea Ustero, due to Bea Gonzales’s injury. In Newgiza, however, she had chosen Lucia Sainz. But Delfi’s triumphs in 2024 (four) came with Bea, returning to the court after an injury. And at the first tournament after the ‘reunion’, the Premier Padel Dubai P1, Brea and Gonzalez immediately gained access to the final, scheduled for Sunday at 5 p.m. local time (2 p.m. CET), beating FIP number 1 and world champions Paula Josemaria and Ari Sanchez. It ended 6-4 4-6 6-3 in two hours and 27 minutes, with Paula and Ari able to make up the losing set with a great reaction, before going ahead by a break in the third and the comeback of Delfi and Bea, who will restart from a final after being forced to retire in the P1 final in Madrid. Facing them will be two young talents like Ale Alonso (in her first final in a Premier Padel tournament) and Andrea Ustero, who had reached the final at Roland Garros with Brea. In the first semi-final, Alonso and Ustero (who will meet Josemaria and Sanchez in the first round of the P1 in Kuwait City) defeated  with a double 6-4 in one hour and 33 minutes Gemma Triay and Claudia Fernandez, who had started better in the first set (3-0) but had to face with yet another great performance by Ale and Andrea, who in less than a week had beaten the number 5 (Ale Salazar and Jessica Castelló), number 4 (Marta Ortega and Sofia Araujo) and number 2 seeds.

MEN If in the women’s final the number 3 seed and a pair that was not included in the top 8 pairs will face each other, the men’s final will again see Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia (1) against Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan (2). It will be the fourteenth duel in an increasingly epic challenge, the thirteenth in the final to which the semi-final of the P2 in Sevilla will be added: in the head to head 8-5 Coello and Tapia lead, but they have won the last five, losing only one set in the final of the P1 in Valladolid. In the first semi-final, the ‘Chingalans’ – in their 14th final in 14 tournaments played as a pair – defeated  in one hour and 10 minutes (7-5 6-3) Franco Stupaczuk and Mike Yanguas (4), who had also managed to recover a break in the first set. In the second, however, Martin Di Nenno and Juan Lebron (3) tried for a set to hold off Coello and Tapia but, after the 7-5 with which the number 1 seed had managed to get the better of their opponents, the second set finished 6-1 without a contest. On Sunday, not before 7 p.m. in Dubai, 4 p.m. CET, the world’s best players will be on court again.