Dubai P1 Without Galán and Chingotto: Coello/Tapia Lead a Reshaped Draw

The EMAAR Dubai Premier Padel P1 is underway at the Hamdan Sports Complex (8–15 November), but one of the tour's two dominant pairs is missing. Alejandro Galán and Federico Chingotto have been removed from the official entry list after Galán failed to recover from a right-hand injury, and the men's draw now looks very different from the one most fans expected.

A third straight absence for Galán

According to Padel Addict, Dubai is the third consecutive event the Spaniard has had to skip. He first withdrew from the Kuwait Major, then missed the FIP World Padel Championship in Doha, where Javi Leal took his place in Spain's squad, and has now pulled out of the final leg of the Middle East swing. Chingotto chose not to look for a substitute partner and is sitting out the tournament as well.

The injury has already cost the pair in the rankings. Withdrawing from Kuwait ended any chance they had of finishing the year as world No. 1, and Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia secured top spot. Reports say the plan now is to recover without rushing, with the Mexico Major in Acapulco (23–29 November) and especially the season-ending Barcelona Finals (10–13 December) as the targets.

Lebrón and Augsburger move up, Leal and Guerrero get a reprieve

With Galán and Chingotto gone, the seedings have been reshuffled. As listed by Padelstar, the men's top four are:

1. Arturo Coello / Agustín Tapia
2. Juan Lebrón / Leo Augsburger
3. Franco Stupaczuk / Jon Sanz
4. Paquito Navarro / Martín Di Nenno

Navarro had a big week in Doha, where he won the world title with Spain in his farewell to the national team. He is still playing on the tour, and he and Di Nenno head the fourth quarter of the draw.

The withdrawal also gives Javi Leal and Fran Guerrero an unexpected lift. Padel Magazine reports that the pair missed the registration deadline and had only been given a wildcard into qualifying. Under the circuit rule that gives a vacated main-draw place to the highest-ranked pair entered in qualifying, they have gone straight into the main draw as sixth seeds, with 13,569 ranking points.

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According to the FIP's draw preview, the top seeds will open against either Álvaro Cepero/Pincho Fernández or Alex Chozas/Juani Rubini. That gives Coello and Tapia a clear route to defending their 2025 title, which they won by beating none other than Galán and Chingotto 6-3, 6-4 in the final.

Women's draw: Bea González chases a Dubai hat-trick

In the women's event, Gemma Triay and Delfi Brea are the top seeds, followed by Paula Josemaría and Bea González, Ari Sánchez and Andrea Ustero, and Claudia Fernández and Martina Calvo. González has won Dubai in each of the last two years, in 2024 with Brea and in 2025 with Fernández. This time she is with Josemaría, fresh from Spain's seventh consecutive women's world title in Doha.

The stakes are high on both sides of the draw. The total prize money is €479,068, and each player on the winning pairs earns 1,000 points in the Race to the Barcelona Finals. For Galán and Chingotto, the next date is Acapulco on 23 November, provided the hand has healed by then.