Cànovas and Rodríguez keep Bordeaux quarter-final surprise alive

Bordeaux’s quarter-final day opened with the surprise still intact, as Noa Cànovas and Laia Rodríguez beat Marta Ortega and Martina Calvo 6-3, 6-2 to reach their first Premier Padel quarter-final. The result kept the women’s draw from settling into a clean favorite-to-form script and gave Bordeaux P2 a fresh breakout storyline as the event moved deeper into the week.

Cànovas, born in Barcelona on 23 April 2004, came into the run ranked No. 32 with 1811 points, a profile that made the scale of the breakthrough clear once she and Rodríguez were standing one round from the semifinals. The pair had already shown enough bite to carry over a pattern seen in other recent stops, where lower-profile teams have pushed through to the late rounds instead of fading once the bracket tightens.

Juan Tello and Maxi Arce kept that same tension alive on the men’s side, surviving Juan Leal and Fede Guerrero 6-1, 7-6, 7-6 in 2 hours 23 minutes and 28 seconds. Their path into the quarter-finals mattered because the rest of the men’s field was packed with names built to restore order, not extend chaos, and Tello-Arce were the pair forcing the bracket to keep making room.

Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia then showed how quickly the top can separate itself once it finds rhythm, dismantling Xisco Gil and Maxi Sánchez 6-0, 6-1 in just 53 minutes. They moved on to face Momo González and Lucas Campagnolo, who had beaten Goñi-Alonso 7-6, 6-1 to earn their own place in the last eight. The other men’s quarter-finals were just as sharp on paper, with Fede Chingotto and Ale Galán facing Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz, the champions of the inaugural Bordeaux P2, while Martín Di Nenno and Paquito Navarro were set to meet Juan Lebrón and Leo Augsburger on Friday, 3 July 2026.

Bordeaux P2 ran from 28 June to 5 July in Bordeaux, France, and the quarter-final slate showed both sides of the draw at once: Cànovas-Rodríguez and Tello-Arce still trying to stretch a surprise week, and the biggest names beginning to close in on the title matchups that usually take over by this stage.