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Coello and Tapia edge Valencia P1 in three sets

Coello and Tapia won a third-set tie-break; Sánchez and Ustero beat the No. 1 pair.

By Padel Backglass2 min read

Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia won the men's title at the Valencia P1 and Ariana Sánchez Fallada and Andrea Ustero Prieto won the women's. The Premier Padel event in Spain closed on 14 June. Coello and Tapia beat Alejandro Galán and Federico Chingotto 6-7, 6-1, 7-6. Sánchez Fallada and Ustero Prieto beat Claudia Fernández Sánchez and Sofia Araujo 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.

Men

Coello and Tapia, both ranked No. 1, lost the opening tie-break and then took the second set 6-1. The third went to a tie-break as well. Galán and Chingotto were ranked No. 3.

The champions began on 6 June with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Luis Hernández Quesada and Luciano Capra, then beat Juanlu Esbri and Ruiz 6-4, 6-1 and Jorge Nieto and Jon Sanz 6-4, 6-4, before a 6-2, 6-2 semi-final against Miguel Yanguas and Franco Stupaczuk.

Galán and Chingotto reached the final with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Juan Tello and Maximiliano Arce Simo and a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 semi-final against Juan Lebrón and Leandro Augsburger.

Tello and Arce Simo, ranked No. 19 and No. 29, had knocked out Lucas Bergamini and Javier Garrido, ranked No. 17 and No. 20, 7-6, 3-6, 7-6 in the round of 16. It was Coello and Tapia's 4th Premier Padel title of the 2026 season.

Women

Sánchez Fallada, ranked No. 3, and Ustero Prieto, ranked No. 7, took the first set 6-4, lost the second 3-6 and closed the match 6-2. Fernández Sánchez was ranked No. 6 and Araujo No. 9.

The champions opened with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Carolina Orsi and Patricia Llaguno Zielinski, then beat Beatriz Caldera Sánchez and Carmen Goenaga García 6-3, 6-4 and ended the run of Gemma Triay Pons and Delfina Brea Senesi, both ranked No. 1, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 in the semi-finals.

Fernández Sánchez and Araujo got there by beating Tamara Icardo Alcorisa and Claudia Jensen 6-1, 6-1 and Marta Ortega Gallego and Martina Calvo Santamaría 6-3, 6-2.

Ortega Gallego and Calvo Santamaría, ranked No. 11 and No. 8, had beaten Paula Josemaría Martín and Beatriz González Fernández, ranked No. 5 and No. 4, 7-5, 7-6 in the quarter-finals. The title was the 2nd of the season for Sánchez Fallada and Ustero Prieto.

Every result in this story comes from our Premier Padel match archive.