Ustero Makes History As Youngest Ever

Premier Padel Title Winner In Bordeaux

Young Spaniard pairs with Portuguese Araújo for P2 win as Coello and Tapia triumph again.

Andrea Ustero Prieto became the youngest ever Premier Padel event winner after she paired up with Portuguese player Sofia Araújo to win the

Bordeaux P2 event on Sunday as top seeds Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia came out on top in the men’s final at the Patinoire de Mériadeck.

Araújo and Ustero fought their way through the draw to face unseeded Spaniards Beatriz Caldera Sanchez and Carmen Goenaga Garcia in

Sunday’s final and looked on course for victory after winning the first set 7-5, only for their opponents to hit back to level it 6-2.

The fourth seeds regrouped, though, and ground them down in the deciding set to win 6-2 for their first title this season in front of an

enthusiastic crowd in the French port city.

Ustero, 18, said: “I’ve been working very hard since I was a little girl. To my parents who have taken me to the training sessions every day so that I

can be here. We’ve been going through a pretty bad patch with Sofi, but we’ve recovered. Congratulations to her, because she is an example for

me. She makes me play my best padel when I’m not at my best.” Araújo and Ustero were helped by the shock exit of top seeds Paula

Josemaría Martín and Ariana Sánchez Fallada in the quarter-finals with third seeds Bea González and Claudia Fernández Sánchez falling to Caldera and

Goenaga in another surprise 6-3 6-2 result during Saturday’s semi-finals.

Sunday’s final saw Araújo as the only player with a Premier Padel title with her and Ustero playing their first final as a duo, while Caldera and Goenaga

were the first pair outside the top 10 to ever play in a Premier Padel 1 / 3women’s final.

After not dropping a set throughout the tournament, Araújo and Ustero’s greater experience eventually paid off with Ustero overtaking compatriot

Fernández as the youngest ever Premier Padel event winner aged just 18 years, one month and 24 days old.

Araújo, 30, added: “First of all, congratulations to my partner as this is her first title. I hope it is the first of many! And congratulations also to the girls,

who had a great tournament.”

The men’s draw took on a similar pattern to so many events in the past year with number one seeds Coello and Tapia winning a tricky three-set

match in the Round of 16 and a titanic quarter-final tussle with Jon Sanz and Jeronimo Gonzalez to book another final – after they benefitted from a

semi-final injury walkover.

At the bottom of the draw, second seeds Alejandro Galán and Fede Chingotto overcame a hard three-set match themselves in the Round of 32

before getting back into their usual rhythm to cruise through their next three matches to set up their fourth 2025 clash with Coello and Tapia – who

led the 2025 head-to-head 2-1.

The first set was a tight, arduous affair which the top seeds eventually ground out in a long tiebreak, then they held their nerve in the second set

to close it out 6-4 in two hours and 10 minutes. It is their sixth title of the 2025 season, their 24th together and Coello’s

25th individually with Chingalan now down 13-6 in the career head-to-head standings between the top two pairs on the circuit.

Coello, 23, said: “We’ve worked very hard since Rome to get back to full fitness, to get back up to the level of this type of player who, if you’re not

at 100 per cent, they beat you and overwhelm you.”

Tapia, 25, said: “They get the best out of us, so congratulations. We could have gone home in the quarter-finals. We played two heart-stopping

2 / 3tiebreaks in this tournament. And even so, with set and match ball against us, we were able to bring out our best version. That shows what a team we

are.”

The players now have a welcome week off before they take on the Malaga P1 event from July 14-20.

The 2025 season begins another exciting chapter for Premier Padel as the unified global tour continues to expand under the governance of the FIP.

With 24 tournaments in 16 countries across five continents, the world’s best players will compete throughout the year, all vying for a place at the

prestigious Qatar Airways Premier Padel Finals in Barcelona from December 8-14. As the season progresses, fans around the world will be able to follow

the excitement, with all quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals streamed live on Red Bull TV.