Day 6. Here are the finals: Coello-Tapia vs. Chingotto-Galan and Brea-Gonzalez vs. Triay-Fernandez

After two semifinals lost in a row, Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan wanted to get back to old habits. The Milano Premier Padel P1 final will be the most eagerly awaited, the one that has pitted the two best pairs in the world against each other all season. Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia versus Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan: it will be them, on Sunday not before 4.30 p.m. who will play for the title at the Allianz Cloud. It will be the 15^th time the four stars will face each other, with the head to head led by Coello and Tapia (9-5), who have won the last six matches. But the ‘Chingalan’ have won two out of two in Italy: first the final of the Major in Rome, then that of the P2 in Genova, the last defeat of Coello and Tapia in their incredible season, five months ago. In the women’s draw, on the other hand, it will be Gemma Triay and Claudia Fernandez against Delfi Brea and Bea Gonzalez (3-3 in the head to head) who will compete for the trophy, with Delfi and Bea then able to confirm their 2023 title. At stake, in addition to the 1,000 points in the FIP ranking guaranteed by the victory of each P1, also the second place as number of titles in the season: behind Paula Josemaria and Ari Sanchez with nine, there are in fact both Triay and Fernandez and Brea and Gonzalez with five.

MEN Five months without missing a match, from July 7th to December 7th. Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia continue their impressive 2024: consecutive victory number 44 allows the number 1 seed to play for their 14th title of the season, their ninth in a row. In the first men’s semi-final, Coello and Tapia overcame 6-3 6-3 in one hour and 9′ Momo Gonzalez and Edu Alonso (8), ending a great week extraordinary week. A semifinal that had started with a break for Gonzalez/Alonso, before the comeback of the number 1 seeded players. Break and counterbreak also in the opening of the second set: ahead Coello and Tapia, reaction by Gonzalez and Alonso. The break that brought Coello and Tapia to 3-2, however, was a sentence. In the second semi-final, the first set had no history, with Chingotto and Galan able to dominate it, closing with a score of 6-1. And the second also seemed in the hands of the ‘Chingalan’. Down 3-0, however, Martin Di Nenno and Juan Lebron turned on the match, which became beautiful: the number 3 seed recovered the break on 4-3 and tied the set. But on 5-4 Di Nenno missed an easy smash giving away a match point, immediately converted by Galan.

WOMEN Also in the women’s final, starting at 3 p.m. CET, the top two pairs on the draw will face each other. In the first semi-final, Delfi Brea and Bea Gonzalez dominated Andrea Ustero and Ale Alonso. In the week of her 25^th birthday, complete with cake on the court, the Argentinean could thus give herself a present and also do it to her ‘historical’ partner from whom she had been forced to part due to the Spanish player’s injuries. Delfi and Bea won 6-0 6-2 in an hour and 10 minutes. Alonso and Ustero, down 3-0 in the second set, had managed to recover a break but then lost their service again on 4-2: a stretch, that of the defending champions, which effectively closed the match. The winner of the second semi-final were Triay and Fernandez, who after the Acapulco Major could score an extraordinary double. If a balanced first set versus Tamara Icardo and Claudia Jensen was decided by a break at 5-3, in the second the break came at 3-2. A break that Triay and Fernandez – for Claudia it will be her first final in Italy after being eliminated in the semi-finals in Rome and Genova – repeated on 5-2, closing and going straight to Sunday.