Premier Padel is coming to Britain. In early August, Olympia London stages the London P1 — the first Premier Padel event ever held in the UK. The tournament week begins on 3 August, with the main event getting under way in the venue's Grand Hall from 4 August and building to the final on Sunday 9 August. Tickets are on sale via Ticketmaster.
For a country that has fallen hard for padel over the past few years, this is the moment the professional tour finally arrives on home soil.
Why Olympia matters
The scale of British padel's growth explains why the tour is coming now. According to LTA figures published in March 2026, 860,000 people play padel in Great Britain. By the end of 2025 the country counted 1,553 courts across 559 venues — up from 870 courts at 293 venues just a year earlier. The government has pledged at least £2.5 million towards covered facilities in 2026/27.
Until now, British fans have had to travel abroad to watch the world's best in person. The London P1 changes that, bringing the tour's elite into one of the capital's most famous exhibition halls for a full week of top-level padel.
Who's hot: the Coello–Tapia steamroller
All eyes will be on Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia. The world No. 1 pair arrive in ominous form: at the Betclic Bordeaux P2 in early July they beat Ale Galán and Federico Chingotto 5-7, 7-6, 6-2 in the final — their fourth title in a row and their sixth of the season.
This week they are defending their title at the Málaga P1. Win there, and they would head towards London on a five-tournament streak. Behind them, Galán and Chingotto remain the closest challengers: the FIP rankings of 13 July have Coello and Tapia on 21,409 points each, with Galán and Chingotto second on 17,677. The great rivalry of men's padel is very much alive — and London could host its next chapter.
A women's race blown wide open
The women's game arrives in London with fresh drama. In Bordeaux, Icardo and Jensen produced one of the shocks of the season, beating the world No. 1 pair Gemma Triay and Delfina Brea 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the final — having already knocked out the fourth and second seeds on their way through the draw.
It was Icardo's first Premier Padel title and Jensen's first since Acapulco 2024, completing a comeback after two and a half years without a trophy. With Triay and Brea still top of the rankings ahead of Bea González and Paula Josemaría, the women's draw at Olympia promises to be anything but predictable.
The warm-up: Stratford in July
British fans don't even have to wait until August for international padel. The FIP Beyond B2 London takes place in Stratford from 23 to 26 July — part of the first season in which the FIP Tour and the British Tour stage events across all the Home Nations.
Two weeks after Stratford wraps up, the main show rolls into Olympia. From 4 August, the Grand Hall becomes the centre of the padel world — and Britain's 860,000 players finally get to see, up close, just how high the ceiling of their new favourite sport really is.
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