The Paris Major runs 7–13 September at Roland-Garros, and it arrives with the cleanest headline act professional padel has ever produced: two pairs, ten finals against each other this season, and a scoreboard that reads 6–4.

The Rivalry

Agustín Tapia and Arturo Coello against Alejandro Galán and Federico Chingotto is no longer a rivalry in the loose, promotional sense. It is a running series. They have met in ten tour-level finals in 2026 — Riyadh, Gijón, Miami, Asunción, Buenos Aires, Rome, Valencia, Valladolid, Bordeaux and London — and Tapia and Coello lead those meetings 6–4.

The shape of the series matters more than the count. Galán and Chingotto owned the spring, winning four consecutive finals between the two pairs from Gijón through Buenos Aires. Then came the Rome Major in June, where Tapia and Coello won 7-5, 7-6 — and everything since has gone one way. Valencia went to a third-set tie-break. Valladolid was straight sets. Bordeaux and London were three-set fights that ended in the same place. Five consecutive final wins for the world No.1s in this fixture, six finals won in a row overall.

The rankings reflect a rivalry that is close and yet not: Coello and Tapia on 20,909 points apiece, Galán and Chingotto on 17,777. A Major is the fastest way to move numbers like those.

The Fourth Seed Nobody Predicted

The most interesting line in the draw belongs to Franco Stupaczuk and Sanz, who will be seeded fourth in Paris despite having played precisely one event together — the FIP Gold in Belgrade, which they won this weekend, beating their own former partners Nieto and Yanguas 6-3, 7-5 in the final.

Stupaczuk, the world No.7, spent the season with Yanguas; Sanz spent it with Nieto. Sanz also carries a piece of history into any meeting with the top seeds: it was Nieto and Sanz who ended Tapia and Coello's record 47-match winning streak at the Barcelona Finals in 2024. Behind the top two pairs, Juan Lebrón and Leandro Augsburger — ranked five and six in the world, and the only other pair to win a men's title this season — complete a genuinely dangerous top of the draw.

The Women's Event

Gemma Triay and Delfina Brea come to Paris as joint world No.1s on 18,069 points, but the season's finals ledger complicates the label of favourite. Bea González and Paula Josemaría lead the head-to-head between the two pairs 5–2 in 2026 finals and top the title count with six. And then there is the pair nobody wants in their quarter: Claudia Fernández, 20, and Martina Calvo, 18, who beat the No.1s 7-5, 6-3 in the London final three weeks ago — the win that made Calvo the youngest Premier Padel champion ever.

Four pairs have a serious claim on this title. Roland-Garros will settle at least one argument.

Madrid P1 concludes on 6 September, the day before the Major begins — our Madrid coverage is here, and the season's full state of play is in the mid-season audit.