Day 5. Augsburger-Cardona, a golden pair is born
February 14, 2025
In the pairs game that revolutionised the start of the Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour season, Leo Augsburger and Pablo Cardona were among the most eagerly awaited newcomers. Young, strong, talented. In the quarter-finals of the Riyadh Season P1 it became clear why: with an impressive performance, the Argentine and the Spanish, both born in 2004, eliminated 6-3 4-6 6-3 Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan, the tournament’s number 2 seed and who for the second time in a row (after the 2024 Finals in Barcelona) stop in the quarter-finals, a round always passed in all the previous tournaments since ‘Chingalan’ became a pair.
“We have been training to play games like this”, the comment of the two “terrible kids”, who are candidates to climb the FIP ranking and slip into the never-ending challenge between Coello and Tapia and Chingotto and Galan, who will certainly not face each other in the Riyadh final. If for Cardona “this was the best match of my young career”, which gives Pablito his first semi-final in a P1, under the eyes of Cristiano Ronaldo Augsburger showed everyone his talent, which had led him to win the FIP World Padel Championships a few months ago in Doha with the Argentina jersey, with Leo the protagonist together with Tino Libaak in the decisive victory for the Albiceleste’s triumph.
A feat that promises not to be the only one, with the tournament that – after numerous postponements of the schedule due to rain – will continue on Saturday with a double round: semifinals from 10 a.m. local time (8 a.m. CET), finals in the afternoon. For Augsburger and Cardona there will be a super semi-final against another promising pair, that of Juan Lebron and Franco Stupaczuk. The other semifinal, the one at the top, will be between Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia (1) against Coki Nieto and Mike Yanguas (4).
WOMEN The women’s semifinals will instead see the top four seeds take to the court: Ari Sanchez and Paula Josemaria (1), Marta Ortega and Sofia Araujo (4) joined Delfi Brea and Gemma Triay (2) but also Bea Gonzalez and Claudia Fernandez (3), who didn’t take to the court today due to rain and will do so directly tomorrow in a highly anticipated semifinal.
