Galán and Chingotto Get Better of Rivals Coello and Tapia for Düsseldorf P2 Title
- wgclients01
- Oct 1
- 3 min read
Alejandro Galán and Fede Chingotto got the better of their big rivals Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia in the Premier Padel Düsseldorf P2 event on Sunday to bank the men's title at CASTELLO Düsseldorf as Gemma Triay Pons and Delfina Brea Senesi rattled off their eighth title as a pair.
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Spaniard Galán and his Argentine partner Chingotto were 6-1 behind in the 2025 season head-to-head against the world number one pair Coello and Tapia, however they dug deep on Sunday in the first-set tiebreak to edge it then raced through the second set to seal the title 6-2 in just one hour and 38 minutes.
Galán, 29, said: "You all know beating them is almost impossible. Since three years ago, they play really amazing. They are pushing us to keep improving and keep working. Now I can smile, I can laugh."
Down the bottom of the draw, second seeds Galán and Chingotto only lost 14 games in blitzing their way through in straight sets which included a quarter-final win over fifth seeds Martín Di Nenno and Leandro Augsburger then a crushing semi-final win over fourth seeds Jorge Nieto and Miguel Yanguas.
In the top half, Coello and Tapia had to dig a bit deeper to overcome eighth seeds Francisco Guerrero and Javier Leal 7-5 7-6 before normal service resumed in the last four when they took apart sixth seeds Jeronimo Gonzalez and Jon Sanz 6-1 6-3 to set up their eighth 2025 clash with Galán and Chingotto.
Sunday's final was Coello and Tapia's ninth in a row since the Buenos Aires P1 event with Tapia battling Galán to become the active player with the most official professional titles across all competitions with both tied at 49 - Galán and Chingotto also eyeing their first title since the Italy Major in June.
The first set was an intense affair as the pairs went back and forth before the second seeds held their nerve to win the tiebreak, then used their momentum to cruise through the second set to hand Galán his magic 50th title, their fifth title as a pair this season and 10th as a pair since they joined forces last year.
Chingotto, 28, said: "Let me congratulate Agus, Arturo, Martin, they are an amazing team. They take us to the mental and physical limit. We keep working. This is only a small step."
In the women's event, top seeds Triay and Brea only lost four games in reaching the semis where they needed to step up a level to defeat fifth seeds Marta Ortega Gallego and Tamara Icardo Alcorisa 6-4 7-5 who had seen off third seeds Bea González and Claudia Fernández Sánchez over three sets in the quarters.
Down the bottom of the draw, second seeds Paula Josemaría Martín and Ariana Sánchez Fallada had to fight through three sets in the quarter-finals against sixth seeds Claudia Jensen and Alejandra Alonso De Villa then held off fourth seeds Sofia Araújo and Andrea Ustero Prieto 7-5 6-4 in the last four.
Sunday's final was the seventh head-to-head clash between the best two pairs this season with Triay and Brea leading 5-1 and looking to individually equal Josemaría and Sánchez's 15 Premier Padel titles.
After three hours and 20 minutes of action - the second longest in Premier Padel history behind the three hours and 22 minutes of the 2023 Madrid P1 final - Triay and Brea came through a classic 6-4 4-6 6-3 to claim their eighth title as a pair and leave Josemaría and Sánchez without a title since June.
Triay, 33, said: "The final was amazing. We have to celebrate and tomorrow we'll think in Rotterdam."
Brea, 25, added: "We put everything that we had today. We had low battery, we were lost... even between ourselves. We had very high self-esteem, for us and for the team that make us win this match."
The players now go straight into the Rotterdam P1 event from September 28 through to October 5th.
The 2025 season begins another exciting chapter for Premier Padel as the unified global tour continues to expand under the governance of the FIP. With 24 tournaments in 16 countries across five continents, the world's best players will compete throughout the year, all vying for a place at the prestigious Qatar Airways Premier Padel Finals in Barcelona from December 8-14. As the season progresses, fans around the world will be able to follow the excitement, with all quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals streamed live on Red Bull TV.
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