Stupaczuk teams up with Sanz in new doubles partnership

Franco Stupaczuk and Jon Sanz formed a new doubles partnership, with Madrid P1 set as the first test for a pairing that instantly changed the shape of the men’s draw. The move ended Stupaczuk’s run with Mike Yanguas and gave Sanz a fresh partner after his latest spell with Coki Nieto.

The split came after a strong but incomplete stretch for Stupaczuk and Yanguas. Their partnership produced two titles and reached five finals, but the momentum was not enough to keep the team together after a London P1 exit. Earlier in 2026, the pair opened Newgiza with a 6-1, 7-5 win over José Antonio Diestro and Maxi Sánchez, then followed that with another 6-1, 7-5 victory over Pol Hernández and Guillermo Collado in Miami’s round of 32.

Stupaczuk has long been one of the circuit’s most explosive attacking players, and the new partnership is built around whether that firepower can be turned into a more reliable weekly threat. Born in Chaco in 1996, the Argentine has spent years among the sport’s elite, but his results have increasingly depended on finding the right fit next to him. Sanz now gets the chance to be that fit, and the pressure lands immediately because the partnership was not formed for a long runway.

The timing leaves little room for experimentation. Madrid P1 was the first marker, and the next stretch of Premier Padel events will show whether the pairing can do more than simply reshuffle the top end of the field. Padel media treated the switch as one of the circuit’s major roster moves because it changed two established partnerships at once, with Stupaczuk-Yanguas and Sanz-Nieto both broken apart in the same cycle.