All roads lead to Barcelona, where the Qatar Airways Premier Padel Finals will take place. For the third consecutive year, the Palau Sant Jordi will host the Finals from 11 to 14 December, bringing together the best players for one goal: lifting one of the most special titles of the season.
How to qualify for the Finals?
The tournament will feature the top 16 players in the FIP Race. This ranking rewards consistency and is determined by the sum of a player’s 22 best results achieved throughout the year across Premier Padel and CUPRA FIP Tour events.
In other words, if a player competes in 30 tournaments across the two circuits over the year, only the 22 in which they have earned more points will count to determine their final position in the FIP Race. If the sum places a player among the top 16 at the end of the season, they will automatically qualify for the Finals.
In addition, the FIP Race is key to establish who finishes the year as world No. 1: those who accumulate the most points from their 22 best results.
Find out here how the qualification system and points breakdown work: https://www.padelfip.com/ranking-system-points-breakdown/
Who’s in?
The Golden Boys, Chingalán and Leburger are already in. The world’s best three teams have already secured their tickets to the Tour Finals following their results at the Paris Major. With the battle for No.1 still open, their seedings for the season finale remain undecided.
Tapia - Coello (#1) claimed their fourth consecutive title on Court Philippe-Chatrier to strengthen their position at the top of the Race, with 12,260 points each. As a result, they will try to defend the title they won in 2025. In the final, they could once again face Ale Galán - Fede Chingotto, who have 11,350 points each after finishing runners-up in Paris.
Meanwhile, Juan Lebrón - Leo Augsburger sealed their qualification by reaching the semi-finals at Roland Garros. The world No. 3s have 5,655 points each and will be looking to improve their result from last year’s Finals, where they were unable to progress beyond the quarter-finals.
Who can clinch a Tour Finals spot next?
7. Miguel Yanguas: 4,005 pts, 18 tournaments, R16 / Final / R32
8. Franco Stupaczuk: 3,735 pts, 18 tournaments, QF / R16 / R32
9. Paquito Navarro: 3,509 pts, 17 tournaments, SF / QF / SF
10. Martín Di Nenno: 3,344 pts, 19 tournaments, SF / QF / SF
11. Fran Guerrero: 3,094 pts, 19 tournaments, QF / R32 / R32
Yanguas could secure his place during the next European tour of Premier Padel, which will feature three consecutive weeks of competition from 28 September to 18 October, with the Rotterdam P2, Germany P2 and Milano P1. He currently sits alone in seventh place in the Race with 4,005 points, short distance from his former partner Franco Stupaczuk, with whom he has played most of the season.
After reuniting again since Madrid P1, the Andalusian is building on the outstanding level he showed last season alongside Coki Nieto, with whom he reached 12 Premier Padel semi-finals. He has played six semi-finals so far in 2026, finishing runner-up three times (FIP Gold Belgrade, Newgiza P2 and Madrid P1) and winning the FIP Platinum Albania alongside Stupaczuk. It is only a matter of time before the numbers confirm his third consecutive appearance at the Finals.
Stupa finds himself in a similar situation after his stint alongside Yanguas. The 270-point gap between them can be explained by Mike’s’ outstanding result at the Movistar Arena a few weeks ago. Stupa now plays with Jon Sanz, with whom he has won the FIP Gold Belgrade, reached the Round of 16 at the Madrid P1 and the quarter-finals at the Paris Major.
On an upward trajectory are the players who knocked them out in that quarter-final clash at Roland Garros: Paquito Navarro and Martín Di Nenno. Since joining forces at the Italy Major last June, they have shown consistency, reaching four Premier Padel quarter-finals and four semi-finals. As a result, they will enter the Rotterdam P2 as the No. 4 pair, meaning they will start the tournament directly in the Round of 16.
Guerrero, meanwhile, has established himself among the elite this season. He was close to lifting the Pretoria P1 title alongside Javi Leal, with whom he won the FIP Platinum Ville de Marseille at the start of the season. If he continues performing at this level, he should have no trouble securing what would be his second appearance at the Finals, having already competed there alongside Momo González in 2025.
These four players should all make it to the Finals, considering that they have already got over or are very close to surpassing last season’s cut-off mark of 3,440 points, set by Javi Leal.
Who would make it if the Finals started today?
12. Coki Nieto: 2,784 pts, 18 tournaments, R16 / Final / QF
13. Momo Gonzalez: 2,629 pts, 19 tournaments, QF / R16 / QF
14. Lucas Campagnolo: 2,583 pts, 18 tournaments, QF / R16 / QF
15. Jon Sanz: 2,559 pts, 19 tournaments, QF / R16 / QF
16. Javi Leal: 2,418 pts, 19 tournaments, QF / R32 / R32
For now, the remaining five spots belong to two former Finals champions, one of the most solid pairs of the year and an outstanding smasher.
Coki Nieto currently holds the best position (12th with 2,784 points). The Madrid-born player has established himself in the last rounds of Premier Padel, having reached eight quarter-finals this season, and enjoyed a major boost in the Race after reaching the Madrid P1 final with Yanguas a few weeks ago, earning 600 points.
He is close to a third consecutive appearance at the Finals, a tournament he won in 2024 after producing a historic comeback against Tapia - Coello (3-6, 7-5, 6-3) alongside Sanz, who is currently 15th with 2,559 points and now competes alongside Stupaczuk.
Ahead of Sanz are Momo González (13th with 2,629 points) and Lucas Campagnolo (14th with 2,583), who have formed one of the most resilient teams on the Premier Padel circuit since joining forces in April.
González wants to return to the Palau Sant Jordi for a third consecutive year, while Campagnolo will be aiming to become the second Brazilian player to compete at this tournament after Lucas Bergamini. In addition, if the Race standings don’t change he would be the only new face at the Finals compared with last season’s edition.
Javi Leal, meanwhile, one of the best smashers on the circuit, currently occupies the final qualifying spot with 2,418 points. After not winning a single Premier Padel match until June, the Andalusian has rediscovered his best form alongside Guerrero, his close friend with whom he became junior world champion in 2017.
Since joining forces in May, they have reached three quarter-finals (Valencia P1, Málaga P1 and Paris Major), one semi-final (Valladolid P2) and one final (Pretoria P1). They will look to maintain that level during the final stages of the season and make it to the Finals as a team.
Who’s on the hunt?
17. Edu Alonso: 2,162 pts (-256 top 16), 19 tournaments, QF / R32 / QF
18. Juan Tello: 2,122 pts (-296), 18 tournaments, R32 / R16 / R16
19. Jairo Bautista: 2,066 pts (-352), 21 tournaments, R16 / SF / R16
20. Maxi Arce: 2,034 pts (-384), 20 tournaments, R32 / R16 / R16
21. Javi García: 1,879 pts (-539), 22 tournaments, R16 / R16 / R16
22. Alex Arroyo: 1,861 pts (-557), 22 tournaments, R16 / QF / R16
23. Juanlu Esbri: 1,847 pts (-571), 21 tournaments, R32 / R16 / R16
24. Javi Garrido: 1,840 pts (-578), 19 tournaments, R32 / R32 / R32
25. Lucas Bergamini: 1,840 pts (-578), 19 tournaments, R32 / R32 / R32
26. Aimar Goñi: 1,834 pts (-584), 19 tournaments, QF / R32 / QF
27. Alex Ruiz: 1,812 pts (-606), 22 tournaments, R16 / R16 / R16
As many as eleven players are now involved in the battle to take one of those final qualifying spots.
Eduardo Alonso is currently the first substitute for the Finals. The Spanish player wants to be back two years after his last appearance. He played there in 2024 alongside González and produced a major upset in the quarter-finals by knocking out Chingalán (6-4, 4-6, 6-4). He has been competing alongside Aimar Goñi since April.
Close to him is Juan Tello , whose main goal is to finish the season among the world’s top 16 players. He missed out the tournament by just 110 points last season and is now chasing that aim with his partner Maxi Arce, who has shown in little more than a year on the circuit that he can compete with the top pairs.
Tello has an advantage in this battle: he has earned big points hauls from the only two FIP tournaments he has played, winning the FIP Platinum Lusitania (300 points) and finishing runner-up at the FIP Gold Abidjan (90 points). He has also played fewer events so far (18) than his rivals. This could allow him to be more selective about which tournaments to focus on during the final stretch of the season, particularly on the FIP Tour if he is knocked out earlier than expected at a Premier Padel tournament.
Jairo Bautista and Juanlu Esbri are also in contention. Both have reached semi-finals of a Premier Padel tournament this season, marking a significant milestone for their careers. They will need similar performances to that one in order to increase their options of securing a ticket, considering they have already played 21 tournaments.
Javi García, Alex Arroyo and Alex Ruiz find themselves in an even more difficult position, having already played 22 tournaments or more. This means they will need to reach the latter stages of several of the events they play until the end of the season for their best 22 results to come closer to the Finals cut-off.
On the other hand, two players who face a tough battle to return to the Finals are Lucas Bergamini and Javi Garrido, who competed there together in 2024. Both have 1,840 points, 578 behind Leal. They haven’t shown their best level together since the start of the season and will have new teammates from the Germany P2 onwards.
Garrido will team up with the Argentine Juani De Pascual, while Bergamini, who could miss out the Finals after qualifying in the last two seasons, will compete alongside Bautista.
This is how the battle to reach the Finals stands at the end of September, just before the start of the season’s final stretch, where everything is still up for grabs. All eyes are on the final two and a half months of competition, which will feature up to six Premier Padel tournaments: two Majors (Kuwait and Acapulco), two P1s (Milan and Dubai), and two P2s (Rotterdam and Germany), as well as four FIP Gold and two FIP Platinum events, the latter being particularly significant as they award the most points on the CUPRA FIP Tour.
