2025, the new women’s draw Sanchez-Josemaria the certainties, Brea-Triay and Fernandez-Gonzalez the new pairs
February 5, 2025
The Qatar Airways Premier Padel season starts, as it did last year, in Saudi Arabia. And scrolling through the Riyadh Season P1 entry list, one finds confirmations and novelties compared to the Premier Padel Finals two months ago. Ari Sanchez and Paula Josemaria will still be the number 1 seed in the first tournament of the year, with the Spaniards having won ten trophies in 2024. Gemma Triay and Claudia Fernandez, winners of six titles, have instead swapped partners: Triay, who restarts with 13,200 points in the FIP ranking, will play with Delfi Brea, while Claudia Fernandez – who in 2024 launched herself into world padel paired precisely with Gemma – will play with Bea Gonzalez.
Pair number 4, like number 1, is a confirmation, with Marta Ortega and Sofia Araujo restarting from last season’s two titles. Also confirmed are Lucia Sainz and Patty Llaguno; among the other newcomers, not absolute as they had already shared the court in the past, are Veronica Virseda paired with Ale Salazar and Aranzazu Osoro with Jessica Castelló. Completing the list of eight seeded players is another pair continuing on their path begun in the 2024 final, the one formed by Tamara Icardo – who is aiming for a better season after last year’s physical problems – and Claudia Jensen.
Just outside the top eight of the seeding is one of the world’s most talented ‘parejas’, the one formed by the very young Ale Alonso and Andrea Ustero, who already earned a place in the Barcelona Finals last year. Also debuting on the same side of the net in Saudi Arabia will be Virginia Riera and Marta Marrero as well as Marta Talavan and Ksenia Sharifova, while for Carmen Goenaga and Bea Caldera it will be a return; after their success in the CUPRA FIP Finals in Bourg-en-Bresse, on the other hand, Marina Guinart and Victoria Iglesias will continue their partnership, as will Alix Collombon and Araceli Martinez (beaten in the CUPRA FIP Finals final), Lara Arruabarrena and Lorena Rufo (semi-finalists in the CUPRA FIP Finals on their debut together), Nuria Rodriguez and Carolina Orsi. Who will be the queens of 2025?
