The season is entering its decisive stages, and the Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour Finals are on the horizon. For the third consecutive year, Barcelona will host the most special tournament of the season welcoming from 11 to 14 December the players who have shown the highest level throughout 2026.

At the end of September, the picture is clear: Gemma Triay - Delfi Brea currently lead the Race, a total of seven players have already secured their spot at the Finals and still 19 contenders will battle until the end of the year for one of the remaining tickets.

This article includes information about the women's draw only, find out who is fighting for a spot in the men's draw HERE.

How does the Qualification System for the Finals work?

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?

1. Delfi Brea: 11,300 pts, 17 tournaments, SF / Win / Final

1. Gemma Triay: 11,300 pts, 17 tournaments, SF / Win / Final

3. Paula Josemaría: 8,480 pts, 17 tournaments, QF / Final / SF

3. Bea González: 8,480 pts, 17 tournaments, QF / Final / SF

5. Ari Sánchez: 8,080 pts, 15 tournaments, Win / SF / SF

5. Andrea Ustero: 8,080 pts, 15 tournaments, Win / SF / SF

7. Claudia Fernández: 6,145 pts, 17 tournaments, Final / SF / Win

The World’s Top Three Teams and Claudia Fernández Are Already In

Seven players have secured their place at the Palau Sant Jordi just before the European leg of Premier Padel gets underway, featuring three consecutive weeks of competition from 28 September to 18 October with the Rotterdam P2, Germany P2 and Milan P1.

Triay - Brea lead the FIP Race as they pursue the goal of finishing the season as number ones for the second consecutive year. They have not been eliminated before the semi-finals at a Premier Padel event this season, and their recent Madrid P1 title has allowed them to maintain a sizeable lead (2,280 points) over their closest rivals.

Meanwhile World No. 2s Bea González - Paula Josemaría have already secured their place at the Finals, but they will need to focus their efforts on trying to win the Kuwait and MexicoMajors if they want to have a chance of ending the season at the top of the ranking.

Ari Sánchez - Andrea Ustero, third pair in the FIP rankings, are firmly on the rise. The Catalan players claimed their first Major title as a team on Roland Garros and have a strong chance of finishing second in the Race if they maintain this momentum.

They also have a major advantage: they have played just 15 tournaments throughout the year (they missed Málaga and Pretoria due to Ustero’s injury), with six Premier Padel events still to be played before the Finals. Having lost twice in the quarter-finals (90 points) at P2 events this year, they will have the opportunity to add better results from some of the upcoming five major CUPRA FIP Tour to include to their best 22. There are four FIP Gold events, where the winners earn 150 points and one FIP Platinum, which awards 300, still to be played.

Claudia Fernández, meanwhile, is the latest to secure her ticket to the Finals. She won the previous edition alongside Bea González. Like Sánchez - Ustero, her level has only continued to rise since joining forces with Martina Calvo in July. Together, they have claimed one title (London P1), finished runners-up twice (Pretoria P1 and Paris Major) and reached one semi-final (Madrid P1) in just four tournaments. Before starting her project alongside Calvo, she shared the court with Sofia Araújo.

Who can clinch a Tour Finals spot next?

8. Martina Calvo: 5,500 pts, 17 tournaments, Final / SF / Win

9. Sofia Araujo: 4,245 pts, 17 tournaments, SF / QF / QF

10. Marta Ortega: 3,600 pts, 17 tournaments, SF / QF / QF

11. Tamara Icardo: 3,255 pts, 16 tournaments, WD* / QF / QF

12. Claudia Jensen: 3,255 pts, 16 tournaments, WD* / QF / QF

*WD: Withdrawal — did not participate due to injury.

Calvo, the youngest player to ever win a Premier Padel title (the London P1 at 18 years, one month and four days old), is one step away from joining her teammate among the players confirmed for the Finals, a tournament where she already made her debut last season alongside Alejandra Salazar. Before shocking the world alongside Fernández, she shared the court with Marta Ortega earlier this season.

Her former teammate and Araújo are the next two players in the FIP Race, where they occupy comfortable positions to secure their places in Barcelona. In July, they swapped partners with Calvo and Fernández respectively, and since then they have shown  remarkable consistency with three quarter-finals and one semi-final in just four tournaments.

The 645-point gap between Araújo and Ortega can be explained by the Portuguese player’s better results alongside Fernández, with whom she reached five semi-finals and finished runner-up at the Valencia P1.

The next are Tamara Icardo and Claudia Jensen, the sixth-ranked team. Their consistency speaks for itself: they have been eliminated before the quarter-finals only once this season (Round of 16 at the Cancún P2). Their best result came in June, when they lifted the Bordeaux P2 title, their first as a team, defeating González - Josemaría in the semi-finals and Brea - Triay in the final.

They were unable to compete at the Paris Major due to Icardo’s last-minute injury, meaning they could add more points in the Race and improve their Cancun result by reaching the latter stages of CUPRA FIP Tour tournaments during the end of the year.

These six players mentioned could secure their places at the Palau Sant Jordi in the coming months, considering that they have already surpassed, or are on course to surpass, the points tally of last season’s final qualifier for the Finals — Guinart herself, with 3,810 points.

Who would make it if the Finals started today?

13. Marina Guinart: 3,030 pts, 19 tournaments, QF / QF / R16

14. Alejandra Alonso: 2,700 pts, 19 tournaments, QF / QF / R16

15. Alejandra Salazar: 2,624 pts, 21 tournaments, QF / QF / R32

16. Verónica Virseda: 2,265 pts, 19 tournaments, R16 / R32 / R16

If the entry list for the Finals was to close today, there would be no new faces compared with last year’s edition. Guinart, Alonso, Salazar and Virseda will be fighting to maintain their status, but their closest rivals are pushing.

Marina Guinart rounds off the list, enjoying the most solid season of her career. She has the opportunity to secure a second consecutive appearance at the Finals in a season in which she has competed alongside Verónica Virseda and promising youngster Alejandra Alonso since June.

She has competed in more tournaments than any of the other 13 players currently at the top of the FIP Race, but she has won both FIP Platinum events she has entered (Tirana and Paredes), adding 600 points to her tally and fixing early exits at the Buenos Aires and Riyadh P1s and the Brussels P2.

Her teammate also stands in a good position. She has finished runner-up at both FIP Platinum events she has played (Marseille and Tirana), as well as reaching eleven quarter-finals and one semi-final on Premier Padel this season. She competed alongside Salazar until June and has partnered Guinart since then. That explains the small gap between her and her former team-mate (76 points), as their results since parting ways have been very similar.

Salazar, the most decorated player in women’s padel history, could secure one last dance in Barcelona if she holds on to her place in the FIP Race top 16. Set to retire at the end of the season, she is chasing a farewell appearance at the Tour Finals alongside Aranzazu Osoro, who currently sits outside the qualification places. 

If the two continue performing at the level they have shown so far — they have reached one semi-final and two quarter-finals inPremier Padel, as well as the FIP Gold Belgrade final in six tournaments — they will have a strong chance of making it to the Palau Sant Jordi as a team. However, Salazar will need to avoid an early exit in the final tournaments of the season at all costs, having already made 21 events appearances in 2026.

If nothing changes between now and the end of the season, her team-mate at the Finals would be Virseda, who currently occupies the final qualifying spot. The other teams would already be set as they form the current top seven seeds of Premier Padel. With 2,265 points to her name, Virseda will need to maintain a good level over the coming weeks, with particular focus on reaching the quarter-finals of the Major tournaments, which would earn her 360 points — more than her best result so far in 2026 (the 300 points she earned by winning the FIP Platinum Paredes).

Who’s on the hunt?

17. Aranza Osoro: 2,157 pts (-108 top 16), 20 tournaments, QF / QF / R32

18. Giulia Dal Pozzo: 2,134 pts (-131), 19 tournaments, R16 / R16 / R32

19. Nuria Rodríguez: 2,134 pts (-131), 19 tournaments, R16 / R16 / R32

20. Raquel Eugenio: 1,940 pts (-325), 20 tournaments, R16 / R32 / R16

21. Carmen Goenaga: 1,910 pts (-355), 19 tournaments, R16 / R16 / QF

22. Bea Caldera: 1,910 pts (-355), 19 tournaments, R16 / R16 / QF

23. Marta Barrera: 1,869 pts (-396), 22 tournaments, R16 / R16 / R16

24. Victoria Iglesias: 1,767 pts (-498), 20 tournaments, R16 / R16 / R16

25. Patty Llaguno: 1,744 pts (-521), 18 tournaments, QF / R16 / R32

26. Lorena Rufo: 1,725 pts (-540), 22 tournaments, R16 / R16 / R16

27. Jimena Velasco: 1,709 pts (-556), 21 tournaments, R16 / R32 / R16

Eleven players are still in contention for one of the final spots. For now, the closest to achieving that goal are Osoro, Nuria Rodríguez and Giulia Dal Pozzo.

Salazar’s current team-mate is enjoying the best momentum of the three, having recently reached the quarter-finals at the Madrid P1 and Paris Major.

Rodríguez and Dal Pozzo, one of the breakout pairs of the season, are also fighting for a spot. They started 2026 playing in the Premier Padel qualifying rounds and gradually earned their place in the main draw, producing memorable performances with semi-final appearances at the Italy Major and Valladolid P2. Dal Pozzo became the first female Italian player to reach that stage in Premier Padel and she is looking to break another barrier becoming the first Italian to make it to the Tour Finals. 

However, they need to improve their results to keep their hopes alive, with their focus on reaching the quarter-finals at Premier Padel events, particularly at Major (360 points) and P1 (180 points) tournaments.

Raquel Eugenio and Premier Padel’s No. 10 team, Carmen Goenaga and Bea Caldera, are also above the 1,900-point mark.

Eugenio has won five of the six CUPRA FIP Tour events she has played, including one FIP Platinum (Marseille) and one FIP Gold (São Paulo). However, her best result on the Premier Padel Tourthis year has been reaching the quarter-finals at the Valladolid P2, so she will need to focus on producing similar performances alongside Jimena Velasco, particularly as she has already played 20 tournaments in 2026.

Goenaga and Caldera missed out on the last Finals by just 95 points. They will need to produce big upsets on Premier Padel and try to win some of the FIP Platinum or FIP Gold events still to take place in order to have chances.

Finally, Marta Barrera, Victoria Iglesias, Patricia Llaguno, Lorena Rufo and Jimena Velasco are also still in contention, but they will only have a chance of making the Finals if they produce outstanding results, particularly at the Majors.

All eyes are now on the final two and a half months of competition, which will feature as many as six Premier Padel tournaments: two Majors (Kuwait and Mexico), two P1s (Milan and Dubai) and two P2s (Rotterdam and Germany), as well as four FIP Gold and two FIP Platinum events.

Excitement and fierce competition are guaranteed as the players battle to finish the year at the top of the FIP Race and secure a place at the Finals, the tournament no one wants to miss.