Premier Padel Málaga sets debut dates for top pairs

The top four men’s pairs will make their first Málaga appearances on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 July at Martín Carpena, and the leading women’s pairs will follow on Thursday 16 July. That staggered entry turns the Andalucía Málaga Premier Padel P1 into a week-long must-plan event, because the biggest names will not all arrive at once; supporters now know exactly which sessions should carry the highest ticket value and the most explosive early-round atmosphere.

Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia, Alejandro Galán and Federico Chingotto, Juan Lebrón and Leo Augsburger, and Mike Yanguas and Franco Stupaczuk are set to headline the men’s opening phase. On the women’s side, the first seeded pairs will be Gemma Triay and Delfi Brea, Paula Josemaría and Bea González, Ari Sánchez and Andrea Ustero, and Sofia Araújo and Claudia Fernández. With those pairs split across Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the early rounds in Málaga will not feel like a warm-up act; they will be loaded with the same elite matchups that usually wait for the later stages.

The scheduling matters because Málaga has already proved it can fill the building for premium padel. Last year’s edition drew more than 42,000 spectators to Martín Carpena, and the 2026 tournament is carrying that momentum into a field built around the sport’s most bankable rivalries. Premier Padel lists the event’s prize money at €474,500, with a 48-team men’s main draw, 48 teams in the women’s main draw and a women’s qualifying draw of 32, underlining the scale of the week in Andalucía.

Bea González will be one of the centerpieces again, and not just because she is paired with Paula Josemaría among the women’s seeds. The Málaga local is the defending champion, and her home-court run has become one of the defining stories of the event after injury forced her out of the 2024 semifinals. She returned to lift the title in 2025 alongside Claudia Fernández, giving this year’s first rounds a built-in local pull that few other stops on the tour can match.

The men’s side arrives with its own recent Málaga history. Tapia and Coello beat Chingotto and Galán 6-4, 7-5 in last year’s final, a result that keeps those four names at the center of the 2026 conversation before a ball is struck. Málaga Premier Padel’s own pages currently show the tournament in a 12-18 July window, while the event website lists Martín Carpena as host for a third consecutive year from 11-19 July. Ticket sales for the 2026 edition opened on 24 March, and more than 2,000 people had already signed up for early access, a sign that the draw dates have real commercial weight for fans deciding when to go and which sessions to target.