Rodrigo Coello earns first home win as Valladolid opens in Plaza Mayor

Rodrigo Coello turned Plaza Mayor into his stage, edging David Gala and Enzo Jensen 7-5, 7-6 with Adam Axelsson for his first main-draw win at home. The result gave Valladolid its loudest opening-day moment and set the tone for a first round that mixed local emotion with the tour’s next generation.

The Oysho Valladolid Premier Padel P2 is in its 20th edition overall and its third on the Premier Padel calendar, with Plaza Mayor de Valladolid listed as the venue and €262,250 in prize money on the line. Premier Padel had already mapped the square as the tournament’s home after staging the first Premier Padel edition in the city indoors at Polideportivo Pisuerga, and the move to one of Spain’s most emblematic city squares gave the draw a different kind of pressure from the first ball.

Bea Caldera and Carmen Goenaga fed off that same setting, beating Jimena Velasco and Marta Barrera 6-3, 6-2 to move into the last 16. Their win fit the pattern Valladolid has made almost its own: Spanish pairs, local noise and the sense that the opening rounds can become a launchpad instead of a formality.

The sharpest break in the men’s bracket came when fifth seeds Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz fell to Iñigo Jofre and Jairo Bautista. Jofre and Bautista took the first set 7-5 and led 2-1 in the second before Sanz withdrew with an injury, a result that blew open a section built around one of the draw’s seeded pairs.

There was more damage to established names as Alonso Rodríguez and Juani De Pascual beat Edu Alonso and Aimar Goñi 7-6, 6-4, while Manu Castaño and Xisco Gil came from a set down to top Álex Arroyo and Tolito Aguirre 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Martín Di Nenno and Paquito Navarro advanced 7-5, 6-4, and Lucas Campagnolo with Momo González rolled through 6-3, 6-1, keeping the top half from settling early.

The women’s side kept delivering too. Nuria Rodríguez and Giulia Dal Pozzo beat Teresa Navarro and Virginia Riera 6-3, 6-1, Jessica Castelló and Lorena Rufo moved on, Victoria Iglesias and Aranzazu Osoro stayed alive, and Marta Caparrós with Julieta Bidahorria joined them. Dal Pozzo’s run carries extra weight in Valladolid, where this was her final tournament starting from qualifying after she and Rodríguez had already shocked seventh seeds Ale Salazar and Ale Alonso at the BNL Italy Major.