August 8, 2026
Martina Calvo Santamaria torches the semifinal leaderboard while Chingotto and Galan book their final ticket the hard way
The semifinals at London P1 2026 delivered everything you'd want — a three-set thriller on the women's side, a dominant statement from the sport's top men's pairing, and one fantasy performance so ridiculous it needs its own paragraph. Martina Calvo Santamaria, ranked 12th and costing just 115.5 credits, put up a jaw-dropping 74.2 FP in a straight-sets win, making her the runaway top scorer of the entire round. Meanwhile, Chingotto and Galan ground out a tense tiebreak battle to set up what promises to be a mouthwatering men's final.
Tapia and Coello made it look easy — perhaps too easy for fantasy purposes. The world's top men's pairing dismantled Di Nenno and Navarro 6-3, 6-2 without breaking a sweat, with Tapia banking 30.6 FP and Coello not far behind at 28.8 FP. Solid numbers, absolutely, but nothing spectacular given the semifinal base. Di Nenno and Navarro, meanwhile, were absolutely savaged by the scoreline — finishing at -5.0 and -5.3 FP respectively. That's what a drubbing does to your fantasy returns when the difficulty coefficient works against you.
The other men's semi was a completely different story. Chingotto and Galan needed every bit of their combined firepower to edge Augsburger and Lebron, eventually coming through 7-6(3) 6-3 after dropping the first set in a tiebreak. It wasn't pretty, but it was effective — and the fantasy points reflected the tougher path. Chingotto led all men with 34.3 FP, and Galan was right behind at 33.1 FP. Augsburger and Lebron, despite the valiant effort, ended up with just 5.9 and 5.7 FP — the losing multiplier is brutal at this stage of the tournament. So the men's final is set: Tapia and Coello vs. Chingotto and Galan. This is the match everyone's been waiting for.
| # | Player | FP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Federico Chingotto | 34.3 |
| 2 | Alejandro Galan | 33.1 |
| 3 | Agustin Tapia | 30.6 |
| 4 | Arturo Coello | 28.8 |
Triay Pons and Brea Senesi had to earn their final spot the hard way, going the full three sets against Sanchez Fallada and Ustero Prieto before prevailing 7-6(4) 5-7 6-3. It was scrappy, it was tense, and for two sets it genuinely looked like an upset was brewing. Triay Pons held her nerve to post 32.2 FP, and Brea Senesi chipped in 29.1 FP — respectable returns for a three-setter that clearly took something out of both pairs. On the losing side, Ustero Prieto actually edged out Sanchez Fallada with 8.0 FP to 6.9 FP, those three sets keeping their returns from total collapse.
And then there was Claudia Fernandez Sanchez and Martina Calvo Santamaria, who didn't just win — they announced themselves as genuine contenders for the whole thing. A 6-2, 6-4 demolition of Josemaria and Gonzalez saw Calvo Santamaria rack up an absurd 74.2 FP, the single biggest haul of the entire semifinal round by an enormous margin. Fernandez Sanchez wasn't far behind with 52.6 FP. Josemaria and Gonzalez, on the other hand, finished at -4.4 and -5.4 FP — another brutal reminder of what happens when you lose by a big margin in the semis. The women's final shapes up as the form pair against the established number ones, and honestly? It could go either way.
| # | Player | FP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martina Calvo Santamaria | 74.2 |
| 2 | Claudia Fernandez Sanchez | 52.6 |
| 3 | Gemma Triay Pons | 32.2 |
| 4 | Delfina Brea Senesi | 29.1 |
| 5 | Andrea Ustero Prieto | 8.0 |
The big story in fantasy this round is the gap between the top scorers and everyone else. Calvo Santamaria's 74.2 FP is more than double what Triay Pons managed in three sets, and that's not a fluke — it's the system rewarding lower-ranked players who outperform expectations against tough opposition. Her ranking multiplier and difficulty coefficient both did serious work here. If you had her in your lineup at 115.5 credits, you're feeling very smug right now. If you didn't, you're doing the painful maths on what that would've done to your score.
On the flip side, the losers this round were absolutely punished. Di Nenno, Navarro, Josemaria, and Gonzalez all finished in negative territory, dragging down any fantasy team that held them into the semis hoping for a miracle. The semifinal round base is 28 — but with a loss you're only keeping 40% of that, and a bad scoreline eats into the game score on top of that. It's a brutal combination. For the final, every player still in the draw is worth owning — but the value gap between Calvo Santamaria (0.68 FP/credit) and the rest is impossible to ignore.
Let's talk about Martina Calvo Santamaria's 74.2 FP, because it deserves to be broken down properly. It starts with the semifinal round base of 28 — that's the same for everyone at this stage. Add the win bonus of +4 and you're already at 32. Then her dominant 6-2, 6-4 scoreline adds a strong game score of +10.4, and her stats — serving, break point conversion, the full package — throw in another +6. That brings the subtotal to 48.4. Now the multipliers kick in. She's ranked 12th, so she gets a ranking multiplier of 0.97 — basically flat, she's good but not the favourite — bringing it down slightly to 46.9. Then the difficulty coefficient comes in at 1.58, reflecting the fact that she and Fernandez Sanchez weren't the expected winners of this match. Multiply 46.9 by 1.58 and you land at 74.2 FP. That coefficient is doing enormous lifting.
Now compare that to Claudia Fernandez Sanchez, who was in the exact same match, won the exact same way, had the exact same subtotal of 48.4, and the exact same 0.97 ranking multiplier for 46.9 going into the final step. But her difficulty coefficient was just 1.12 versus Calvo Santamaria's 1.58. Why? Because Fernandez Sanchez is ranked higher — the system expects more from her, so beating a lower-ranked pair doesn't trigger the same multiplier bonus. The result: 52.6 FP vs 74.2 FP, from literally the same match. That's the whole lesson in one comparison — in fantasy padel, buying low-ranked players who can genuinely compete isn't just savvy, it's potentially the difference between winning your week and finishing mid-table.
💎 Martina Calvo Santamaria is the pick of the tournament at 115.5 credits. She's averaging 78.5 FP on the season, she just put up 74.2 FP in the semis, and her value ratio of 0.68 FP/credit demolishes every other player still in the draw. Yes, she faces Triay and Brea in the final — but she's clearly not intimidated.
⚡ Federico Chingotto is your men's premium pick at 193.7 credits. He led all men with 34.3 FP this round despite a tough match, his season average is 113.4 FP, and he's got the best value among the men's finalists at 0.59 FP/credit. The Tapia/Coello matchup is fearsome, but Chingotto thrives in big moments.
🤔 Tapia and Coello are the safe holds — combined cost around 385 credits, solid season averages of 101.8 and 104.0 FP, but they're also both at the lower end of the value scale (0.53 and 0.54 FP/credit). If you need bang for your buck, there are better options. If you need reliability, they're your backbone.
📈 Claudia Fernandez Sanchez at 181.7 credits is underpriced relative to her form. She's ranked 6th, her season average is 86.0 FP, and she just posted 52.6 FP in a commanding semifinal win. At 0.47 FP/credit she looks like the weakest value on paper — but that was before this run. Expect her cost to climb.
🔥 Calvo Santamaria's 74.2 FP is the round's defining number — the 12th-ranked player out-scored everyone by a country mile thanks to a difficulty coefficient of 1.58
😤 Di Nenno and Navarro both finished at -5 FP after getting bagelled in the second set — the lesson: don't hold losing players into the semifinals expecting garbage time points
⚔️ Chingotto and Galan survive a first-set tiebreak scare to reach the men's final, setting up an absolutely enormous showdown with Tapia and Coello
🎭 The women's three-setter between Triay/Brea and Sanchez/Ustero was the match of the round on court — but it wasn't the match of the round in fantasy, where the clean Fernandez/Calvo win generated far more points
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Padelcilu | 711.4 |
| 2 | Pode Team | 654.3 |
| 3 | Futur Legend | 647.5 |
| 4 | ZeGalan | 636.8 |
| 5 | DavidCereCat | 594.3 |
1. Stack the women's final — both pairs have high-upside players, and the final round base of 40 means even a loss from Triay or Brea returns more than a semifinal win did for most players
2. Don't over-invest in the men's final at the expense of the women's side — Calvo Santamaria's 0.68 FP/credit value is impossible to replicate in the men's draw right now
3. Watch the difficulty coefficients: in a final between two top pairs, both coefficients will likely compress — meaning the upset winner gets a massive multiplier boost if a lower-ranked pair pulls it off
The London P1 finals are set — lock in your picks before the deadline and chase down Padelcilu at the top of the tournament leaderboard. 711.4 points is the target. Can you close the gap?