The new men’s draw: Coello-Tapia and Chingotto-Galan still together. But what a revolution!
February 6, 2025
Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia, Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan: two pairs who have won 19 of the 24 tournaments in the Qatar Airways Premier Padel 2024. Will Coello and Tapia, last year’s kings with 14 titles, dominate again? Or will there be new pairs able to counter them? From the Riyadh Season P1, the tournament that will open the season next week in Saudi Arabia, we will begin to understand: Chingotto and Galan, who only managed to compete with their rivals in the middle part of the season, will start the year as a pair for the first time (in 2024 they began playing together from Puerto Cabello), but scrolling through the Riyadh entry list there are many new pairs.
The number 3 seeded pair will be new, with Juan Lebron returning to play on the right, with Franco Stupaczuk on the left. Mike Yanguas, who shared the second half of 2024 with Stupa, will instead start with Coki Nieto, the Premier Padel Finals champion paired with Jon Sanz, who will now play with Momo Gonzalez. Martin Di Nenno, after his partnerships with Stupaczuk and Lebron in 2024, will start again with Javi Garrido, whose former partner – Lucas Bergamini – is in Riyadh with Paquito Navarro. A real revolution has also involved Pablo Cardona and Leo Augsburger, who form a potentially explosive pair. Juan Tello will try to relaunch himself with another young world champion, Tino Libaak, while Alex Arroyo and Edu Alonso will return to the same side.
Half-Spanish, half-Argentine parejas will be Alex Chozas and Alex Ruiz (seeded number 10), Javi Leal and Sanyo Gutierrez (11) and Lucho Capra and Juanlu Esbri (14), while another Argentine, Maxi Sanchez, will form an all-South American pair with Brazilian Lucas Campagnolo. Among the few confirmations, on the other hand, are Fran Guerrero and Jairo Bautista, authors of a great season finale culminating with the title in the CUPRA FIP Finals in Bourg-en-Bresse, and Javi Garcia/Javier Barahona. Who will be able to stop Coello and Tapia?
