- Madrid P1 2026: dates, prize money and FIP points
- Coello-Tapia hold a 1,290-point lead in the Race
- Stupaczuk-Sanz and Nieto-Yanguas arrive from Belgrade
- The draw puts the new pairs in different sections
- Clément Geens has cleared the first qualifying round
- Lamperti received no wild card and his Madrid ends in qualifying
- The women’s draw adds another major storyline in Madrid
- Tickets and broadcast: practical information
- Coslada, Movistar Arena, then Sunday’s final at 4 p.m.
Madrid P1 2026: dates, prize money and FIP points
- Tournament: Comunidad de Madrid Premier Padel P1.
- Dates: 29 August to 6 September 2026.
- Qualifying: Pro Padel Coslada, 29 to 31 August.
- Main draw: Movistar Arena, 1 to 6 September.
- Prize money: €479,068.
- Points: 1,000 FIP points for the P1 winners.
- Draws: 48 men’s pairs and 28 women’s pairs.
Premier Padel returns with no settling-in period. Madrid P1 2026 runs from 29 August to 6 September 2026, with qualifying at Pro Padel Coslada before the main draw moves to Movistar Arena. The International Padel Federation lists total prize money of €479,068. A P1 title is worth 1,000 FIP points, with the Paris Major offering 2,000 points to its winners one week later.
The calendar gives Madrid extra weight. The FIP presents the Spanish stop as the first Premier Padel tournament after the summer break, one week before Roland-Garros. Winning both Madrid and Paris would therefore bring 3,000 points. The ranking cannot be reduced to that simple total because only eligible results are counted under the ranking system, but the two-week sequence creates enough movement to affect the end-of-season race.
The men’s main draw contains 48 pairs. The 16 seeds receive first-round byes and enter on Wednesday 2 September. Men’s qualifying is played on 29 and 30 August in Coslada before the tournament moves to Movistar Arena from Tuesday 1 September. The official FIP event page also confirms three men’s main-draw wild cards and eight places for qualifiers.
Coello-Tapia hold a 1,290-point lead in the Race
The restart immediately brings the season’s two leading pairs back into focus. In the Race ranking published on 24 August, Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia have 10,440 points each. Alejandro Galán and Federico Chingotto have 9,150. The gap is therefore 1,290 points per player before Madrid.
| Pair | FIP Race on 24 August | Premier Padel titles in 2026 | 2026 record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coello / Tapia | 10,440 points each | 8 | 57 wins, 6 losses |
| Galán / Chingotto | 9,150 points each | 6 | 55 wins, 9 losses |
Their last meeting before the break went to the No.1 pair. In London, Coello and Tapia beat Galán and Chingotto 6/3 5/7 7/5 to claim their eighth title of the season. The Spanish-Argentine pair had arrived after losing in the Pretoria semi-finals, where Galán and Chingotto went on to win the tournament. Madrid therefore restarts a rivalry that was still producing tight matches before the pause.
After the London final, Tapia summed up his pair’s approach in a statement reported by the FIP:
The important thing is to continue having the desire to fight and win.
In Madrid, the two teams can only meet in the final. Coello and Tapia will begin in the second round against the winner of Mouriño/Quílez versus Javi Ruiz/Santiago Pineda. Galán and Chingotto will open against a qualifier. Every round matters for the chasing pair. The 1,000 points awarded to the P1 champions do not by themselves erase the 1,290-point Race gap, but the Paris Major follows immediately afterwards.
Stupaczuk-Sanz and Nieto-Yanguas arrive from Belgrade
Madrid should also provide the first reliable Premier Padel measure of two reshaped combinations near the top of the men’s draw. Franco Stupaczuk and Jon Sanz, seeded fourth, will play their first Premier Padel tournament together. Coki Nieto and Mike Yanguas, the fifth seeds, have reunited after already playing together in 2025. Both changes alter the balance inside the men’s top eight and redistribute partners from the first half of the season.
Neither pair arrives without match practice. Both used the FIP Gold in Belgrade as preparation. Stupaczuk and Sanz opened by beating Antonio Luque and Antonio Vázquez 6/3 6/2, then defeated Gustavo Nunes and Pedro Perry 6/3 6/2. They beat Francisco Jurado and Alejandro García 6/2 6/2 in the quarter-finals before overcoming Pablo Lijó and Xisco Gil 7/6 7/5 in the semi-finals. Nieto and Yanguas started with a 6/1 6/0 win over Víctor Tur Checa and Agustín Reca, then reached the final by allowing Álex Ruiz and Javi García only four games in the semi-final, 6/3 6/1.
As of Sunday morning, 30 August, the Belgrade final between Nieto-Yanguas and Stupaczuk-Sanz has not yet been played. It will be the first direct meeting between these current combinations. Madrid will still be their first test in a P1 draw featuring all 16 seeds and the world’s two leading pairs. Moving from a FIP Gold to a P1 changes both the depth of opposition and the path required to reach the closing rounds.
The draw puts the new pairs in different sections
The official draw keeps the two new combinations apart early. If the seeds advance as projected, Stupaczuk and Sanz could meet Momo González and Lucas Campagnolo in the quarter-finals. Nieto and Yanguas sit in the same quarter as Coello and Tapia. The other projected quarter-finals are Guerrero-Leal against Lebrón-Augsburger and Di Nenno-Navarro against Galán-Chingotto.
That distribution creates different tests of chemistry. Nieto and Yanguas could run into Coello and Tapia’s attacking volume at an early stage. Stupaczuk and Sanz have a different route, with the task of building patterns against pairs capable of slowing rallies and forcing extra defensive shots. Beyond the result itself, Madrid should show how each team divides court coverage, who takes responsibility through the middle and how the pairs manage transition phases.
The tournament also brings back 2025 champions who now have different partners. Leo Augsburger, who won in Madrid last year with Martín Di Nenno, now plays with Juan Lebrón. Di Nenno is paired with Paquito Navarro. The defending men’s champions therefore no longer exist as a pair, adding another layer to a draw reshaped over the summer.
Clément Geens has cleared the first qualifying round
The competition is already under way for Clément Geens. The Belgian, ranked 81st by the FIP on 24 August with 822 points, is the sixth seed in qualifying alongside Dylan Guichard. On Saturday, the French-Belgian pair beat Marco Cassetta and Fabián Oviedo Berazategui in straight sets, 6/2 7/6. Geens and Guichard have therefore cleared the first of two rounds needed to reach the main draw.
Their second match is scheduled for Sunday 30 August on Pro Padel 2, not before 8 p.m., against Diego Gil and Pablo Reina Ambel. Gil and Reina beat Juan Pablo Dametto and Luciano Puppo 6/3 4/6 6/1 in the first round. Victory would send Geens and Guichard to Movistar Arena as one of the eight qualified pairs.
Saturday’s result follows a season in which the pair has already won on the CUPRA FIP Tour. In June, Guichard and Geens won the FIP Silver Palermo by beating Antonio Fernández and Adrián Marqués 6/3 7/6 in the final. Madrid now gives Geens a clear next target: turn that progress into another Premier Padel main-draw appearance.
Lamperti received no wild card and his Madrid ends in qualifying
Miguel Lamperti’s situation is clear in the tournament documents. The three men’s main-draw wild cards went to Hugo García/Carlos Del Pico, Iago Fuertes/Bentahor Espino and Javier Collantes/Asier Martínez. Lamperti is not among them. Ranked 103rd by the FIP on 24 August, the 47-year-old Argentine therefore began the tournament in qualifying with Octavio Alvarez.
Their run ended on Saturday. Javier Valdés and Miguel Benítez Lara beat Lamperti and Alvarez 6/2 5/7 6/4. The result ends the veteran’s Madrid campaign before the main draw begins at Movistar Arena. There is no basis for turning the absence of an invitation into a controversy without a source. The verified facts are straightforward: none of the three men’s wild cards went to Lamperti, and qualifying did not take him into the second round.
The women’s draw adds another major storyline in Madrid
The week is not only about the men’s No.1 race. Delfi Brea and Gemma Triay are the top seeds in the women’s draw. Paula Josemaría and Bea González are seeded second, Ari Sánchez and Andrea Ustero third, and Claudia Fernández and Martina Calvo fourth.
Fernández is aiming for a third straight Madrid title after winning with Gemma Triay and then Bea González. This time she returns with Martina Calvo, her partner for the London title. The FIP also highlights a major personal occasion: Alejandra Salazar is due to play the final tournament of her career in Madrid, her home city. Salazar and Aranzazu Osoro sit in the projected quarter of Brea and Triay.
The women’s field reflects the same summer movement seen in the men’s game. Several partnerships changed during the break, and Madrid offers the first direct Premier Padel comparison between those new configurations after the pause.
Tickets and broadcast: practical information
The organisers state that qualifying at Pro Padel Coslada can be attended without a ticket. From 1 September, entry to Movistar Arena requires a ticket, sold through the official Madrid P1 website and Movistar Arena.
For viewers following remotely, Premier Padel’s broadcast page lists the opening rounds on the tour’s YouTube channel, followed by the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals on Red Bull TV. Canal+ is among the listed broadcasters for France, Belgium and several other French-speaking territories. Rights vary by country, so Premier Padel’s official “Where to watch” page remains the reference before each session.
Coslada, Movistar Arena, then Sunday’s final at 4 p.m.
The week’s schedule is now set. Men’s qualifying ends on Sunday 30 August. Women’s qualifying, which begins the same day, concludes on Monday 31 August. The main draw starts at Movistar Arena on Tuesday 1 September.
- 29 to 31 August: qualifying at Pro Padel Coslada.
- 1 September: men’s first round and start of the main draw.
- 2 September: men’s second round and entry of the 16 seeds.
- 3 September: round of 16.
- 4 September: quarter-finals.
- 5 September: semi-finals from noon.
- 6 September: finals from 4 p.m.
Madrid starts a sequence that should provide answers quickly. The P1 will test the new pairings, restart the Coello-Tapia versus Galán-Chingotto contest and determine which players reach Roland-Garros with a sporting and points advantage. For Geens, the task is immediate, with a main-draw place to earn on Sunday night. For Lamperti, the tournament is already over. For the leading pairs, the second part of the Premier Padel season properly begins on Wednesday at Movistar Arena.
