Country Report: Spain Rules, Argentina Bites Back, Italy Makes History, and Brazil's Lucas Duo Keeps Climbing

Four countries, four completely different stories — and all of them matter for your OutOfTheCourt fantasy squad. Spain is still the sport's beating heart, fielding the biggest rosters, the deepest FP costs, and the players who will almost certainly decide who lifts the OutOfTheCourt season trophy. Argentina is the challenger nation that refuses to be a subplot: two Argentines have been in every major final conversation, and a third dominates the women's world number one spot alongside a Spaniard. Italy just wrote its own chapter at the Foro Italico with a 21-year-old who had the padel world completely stunned. And Brazil? Two Lucases are quietly making the case that South America has more than one padel country. Let's get into it.

🇪🇸 Dominant

Spain's 71-point presence in the OutOfTheCourt player pool isn't a coincidence — it's a reflection of a country that simply produces more elite padel than anywhere else on the planet. With Gemma Triay at the top of the women's world rankings (alongside Argentina's Delfina Brea), Arturo Coello holding the world number one men's position, and Alejandro Galán as the relentless number two, the Spanish roster on OutOfTheCourt is effectively a who's who of people who win things. The cumulative FP cost sits at 35.5, which sounds manageable until you start adding Triay, Coello, AND Galán to the same lineup and realise you've burned through your entire budget before you've touched a single Argentine or Italian wildcard.

Coello's track record right now is frankly obscene. In the 2025 season alone, Tapia and Coello won 13 titles and appeared in 17 finals — a number they shared with Galán and Chingotto.[1] That's the kind of output that makes OutOfTheCourt managers feel bulletproof when they've got Coello in the squad — and rightly so. The Spaniard is the highest-scoring individual in terms of career tournament wins on the circuit, having claimed 29 titles in total, including 8 Majors and 15 P1s. You are not finding a more reliable fantasy asset anywhere on the planet right now, and at 35.5 FP for the full Spanish complement, the bang-per-point ratio for Spain is genuinely the benchmark that every other nationality is being judged against.

Triay is the other side of Spain's dominance. The women's circuit has been more open than ever, with titles alternating between Sánchez–Josemaría, Triay–Brea, and Fernández–González.[2] That openness is actually what makes Triay an interesting OutOfTheCourt call rather than just a passive pick — she's not an automatic title winner every week anymore, and that variance means her FP-to-points ceiling is enormous when she peaks. After the disappointment at the Madrid P1 final earlier this season, Triay and Brea came back with Triay eyeing her fourth straight Major tournament victory, the Paris Major the perfect opportunity to reset.[3] That bounce-back instinct is exactly what you want from a flagship fantasy asset.

And then there's Galán — who in the context of OutOfTheCourt is perhaps the most nuanced Spain pick of all. The 2025 season concluded with Galán and Chingotto sharing the final appearances record with Tapia and Coello, both pairs reaching 17 finals.[4] Seventeen finals. Let that breathe for a second. Galán is the player who makes Chingotto great, and the player who keeps the top of the men's draw honest every single week. His FP cost as part of Spain's 35.5-total package is steep — but in a deep OutOfTheCourt season, his floor is consistently extraordinary. Spain at 71 points and 35.5 FP isn't just the dominant nation. It's the baseline against which every other fantasy decision you make gets measured.

🌍 Rising

Argentina at 20 points and 48.7 FP tells you something important: the Argentines who are on this circuit are expensive because they are genuinely elite. You're not getting depth here. You're getting three of the most consequential padel players in the world, and two of them happen to share a court in every major final on the men's side. Agustín Tapia and Federico Chingotto faced each other in the men's Tour Finals final, while Delfina Brea chased the women's title alongside Gemma Triay.[5] Three Argentines, two finals, one night in Barcelona — that's what this country delivers at the biggest moments.

Tapia is the ultimate OutOfTheCourt asset if you're chasing ceiling rather than floor. Born in Catamarca and known as 'El Pollito', he currently holds the number one position in the FIP ranking.[6] The 48.7 FP cost for the Argentine roster stings in budget terms, but when you consider Tapia's individual output — he and Coello won the most titles of anyone in 2025, across all tournament categories — there's a case to be made that he's the single most valuable asset relative to his actual peak production in this entire game. The catch: he plays with a Spaniard, meaning you're double-dipping on court time with Coello and Tapia but only one of them counts in your nationality allocation.

Chingotto is where it gets genuinely exciting for OutOfTheCourt managers who love a storyline. At the 2026 Buenos Aires P1, Chingotto and Galán swept Tapia and Coello 6-2, 6-1 in front of more than 14,000 people[7] — a crowd that was already a world-record attendance for a padel semi-final earlier that week. Since pairing with Galán, Chingotto has added a notch of speed and aggression to his bandeja, complementing his legendary defensive solidity.[8] The Chingalán pair had four 2025 titles and 17 final appearances, making Chingotto a legitimately premium pick who gives you Argentine points AND forces the top seeds to raise their level every single time. Then there's Brea — world number one, consistent, and the partner that makes Triay dangerous. Argentina at 48.7 FP is expensive. It is also, categorically, worth considering if you can build the rest of your squad efficiently around it.

Italy — 3 points, 13.5 FP — is the rising nation story of the moment, and if you've been sleeping on Italy in your OutOfTheCourt squad, the Foro Italico just woke you up very loudly. Italian padel celebrated a historic achievement at the Rome Major as Giulia Dal Pozzo became the first Italian player to reach the quarterfinals of a Premier Padel Major.[9] She's 21 years old. Her mother was a professional tennis player who represented San Marino — then Giulia discovered padel and never looked back.[10] But Dal Pozzo didn't just reach the quarters. She went a step further, becoming the first Italian in a Major semi-final, with her and Rodríguez eliminating Claudia Fernández and Sofía Araújo — the 6th and 8th best players in the world — in a stunning 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 comeback.[11] Italy at 13.5 FP is the cheapest national block on this OutOfTheCourt board. The upside right now, led by Dal Pozzo, Carolina Orsi, and Enzo Jensen, is real.

📊 Fantasy

Here's the core OutOfTheCourt nationality dilemma this season, and it's a genuinely hard one: Spain at 35.5 FP gives you the safest floor in the game. Argentina at 48.7 FP gives you the highest individual peaks. Italy at 13.5 FP and Brazil at 41.3 FP offer either pure value plays or hidden-gem upside. The maths depend entirely on which type of OutOfTheCourt manager you are — the one who optimises for consistency week-to-week, or the one who swings for the ceiling and lets the points table sort it out by December.

The current OutOfTheCourt leaderboard gives you an interesting lens on this. FJorgensenTeam leads at 10,437.2 points. DavidCereCat is second at 10,130.5, sebsx4 third at 10,017.2, GusTeam fourth at 9,823.9, and Padelcilu rounding out the top five at 9,663.1. A 774-point gap from first to fifth is significant — but it's not insurmountable. The managers currently leading have almost certainly leaned into Spanish depth (71 points of Spanish players available means you can build a squad that has consistent haul-generators across every tournament), and that points to a broader truth: Spain's FP cost of 35.5 is not cheap, but it is efficient. Triay at the world number one spot, Coello with 13 2025 titles in his back pocket, and Galán with 17 final appearances create a three-headed engine that produces OutOfTheCourt points in nearly every event, not just the marquee ones.

But here's the thing — Italy at 13.5 FP might be the single best value nationality on the board right now if Dal Pozzo keeps this form. After her Italy Major run, Dal Pozzo is projected to break into the world top 30[11], a ranking jump that translates directly into deeper tournament runs, more OutOfTheCourt points per event, and a player who's only going to get harder to draw against. At 21 years old, Dal Pozzo embodies the growth of padel in Italy.[12] Enzo Jensen is the other Italian flag-carrier to watch — he and David Gala arrived at the Italy Major as runners-up of the recent FIP Platinum in Albania[13], and they made it through the round of 32 at the Italy Major in a genuine upset before falling to the top seeds. Jensen is ranked in the world top 50 and is underpriced in a block that only costs Italy's 13.5 FP total. Carolina Orsi — the pioneer who became the first Italian to reach a World Padel Tour quarterfinal in 2023[9] — is the senior voice of this group. Italy is not Spain. But at 13.5 FP, Italy doesn't need to be.

🌐 Growth

Zoom out from the individual nationality battle for a second and the bigger Premier Padel story becomes clear: this circuit is genuinely global now in a way it wasn't three years ago. The 2026 Premier Padel season is the fifth edition of the circuit, running across 25 tournaments in 17 countries.[14] For context, the first season covered three continents and six venues. Now there's a Major at Roland Garros, a landmark debut at the Foro Italico producing historically great moments, and Buenos Aires confirming itself as one of the great padel venues in the world — over 14,000 fans inside Parque Roca for a P1 final.[7] The sport isn't growing. It's exploding.

That growth matters enormously for OutOfTheCourt managers thinking beyond the current season. Brazil's 41.3 FP block is a case study in what happens when a non-traditional padel nation punches above its weight. Lucas Bergamini crossed the Atlantic from Bento Gonçalves to chase a professional career in Spain and has built a top-20 profile by reading the game faster than the bigger hitters around him.[15] He's the shortest player in the top 100 at just 1.65 metres, and yet he's been in a major final — reaching the Buenos Aires 2025 final alongside Paquito Navarro before falling to Tapia and Coello 6-2, 6-2.[16] Meanwhile Campagnolo — Bergamini's former partner — combined with Momo González at the Italy Major to dump out the sixth-ranked Stupaczuk–Yanguas pair before reaching the semi-finals[17]. Brazil at 2 points and 41.3 FP is the circuit's ultimate underdog story, and OutOfTheCourt rewards managers who identify upside early.

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