September 8, 2026
Franco Dal Bianco's 79.4-point masterclass headlines a chaotic round of upsets, bagels, and bracket carnage at the Paris Major
The Round of 64 at the Paris Major 2026 didn't mess around. Across 28 matches — 16 men's, 12 women's — the courts served up blowouts, three-set thrillers, and the kind of scoreline dominance that fantasy managers dream about. Leading the charge was Franco Dal Bianco, who stacked an eye-watering 79.4 FP in a straight-sets demolition job, making him the runaway top scorer of the entire round. If your squad had him, you're feeling smug right now.
The headline act on the men's side was Franco Dal Bianco and Facundo Rodriguez Luis Lopez, who dismantled Juan Cruz Belluati and Facundo Dominguez 6-2, 6-1 without breaking a sweat. Dal Bianco's 79.4 FP and Lopez's 49.9 FP combined to make this the most lucrative pairing of the round — fantasy managers who had both in their squad are sitting very pretty heading into the R32. Right behind them, Clement Geens and Dylan Guichard were absolutely ruthless in a 6-0, 6-2 romp against Javier Ruiz and Santiago Pineda Cabello — a scoreline so one-sided it almost felt disrespectful. Geens banked 57.5 FP, Guichard 46.5 FP, and the French crowd presumably loved every second of it.
Timeo Fonteny was another man who lit up the fantasy charts, racking up 57.9 FP alongside Nacho Moragues Moltò (35.1 FP) in a comfortable 6-1, 6-4 win over Jose Luis Gonzalez and Álvaro Melendez Amaya. That poor opposing pair finished the match with -26.1 FP each — yes, minus. Ouch. There were upsets worth flagging too: Tino Libaak and Gonzalo Alfonso came from a set down to beat Pablo Lijo and Francisco Gil in a scrappy 4-6, 6-3, 1-6 (wait — they won the super tiebreak 2-1) affair. Lijo and Gil finishing with negative FP sums it up. Federico Mouriño and Marc Quilez also caused damage, dispatching Ramiro Valenzuela and Daniel Santigosa 6-1, 6-5 for 33 and 31.4 FP respectively — handy scores in anyone's team.
The match of the round on the men's side? Almost certainly Aris Patiniotis and Diego Garcia Garcia surviving a gruelling three-setter against Antonio Fernandez and Mario Del Castillo — 7-6(4), 6(6)-7, 7-6(5). Three sets, two tiebreaks, and an absolute war of nerves. Both Patiniotis and Garcia Garcia walked away with 19.5 FP each, while Fernandez and Del Castillo earned a moral victory and 1.4 FP apiece. You don't get three-setters much tighter than that.
| # | Player | FP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franco Dal Bianco | 79.4 |
| 2 | Timeo Fonteny | 57.9 |
| 3 | Clement Geens | 57.5 |
| 4 | Facundo Rodrigo Luis Lopez | 49.9 |
| 5 | Dylan Guichard | 46.5 |
The women's draw had its own fireworks, and Monica Gomez Rivas was the standout performer with 38.1 FP — the top women's scorer of the round. She and Julia Polo Bautista (32.7 FP) were utterly dominant, bageling Xenia Clasca Vidiella and Carla Touly in the first set and wrapping up a 6-0, 6-3 win without fuss. Similarly dominant were Noemi Aguilar Carrillo (32.7 FP) and Claudia Escacena Montero (34.5 FP), who dropped only four games across two sets against Melania Merino Saez and Lucia Peralta Exposito. Carmen Castillon Gamez had an excellent day too — 33.5 FP in a controlled 6-4, 7-5 win with Lorena Vano over Giorgia Marchetti and Lara Arruabarrena.
There were drama merchants on the women's side as well. Barbara Las Heras and Carla Mesa Salazar edged out Lucia Martinez Gomez and Letizia Manquillo Alarza in a three-set rollercoaster — 6(1)-7, 6-4, 4-6 — in what was arguably the most competitive women's match of the round. Las Heras finished with 21.5 FP and Mesa Salazar with 17.9 FP, solid returns for a grinding win. Aida Martinez Sanjuan and Natividad Lopez Diaz also needed three sets to get through Caterina Maria Baldi and Ana Catarina Nogueira — 0-6, 6-3, 3-6 — which is the kind of scoreline that looks chaotic written down and probably felt even stranger to watch live. Ariadna Cañellas Rodero (34.8 FP) and Patricia Martinez Fortun (31.8 FP) were the most efficient women's pair of the round, cruising past Araceli Martinez and Laura Lujan Rodriguez 7-5, 6-1 and banking points that'll look great in any squad.
| # | Player | FP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monica Gomez Rivas | 38.1 |
| 2 | Ariadna Cañellas Rodero | 34.8 |
The FP spread this round was genuinely extreme. At the top, Dal Bianco's 79.4 made him not just the men's leader but the overall top scorer by a country mile — nearly 22 points clear of second-place Fonteny. The Geens-Guichard combination was the best-performing pair in terms of combined output, and if you had all four of those names (Dal Bianco, Lopez, Geens, Guichard) in your squad, you were essentially printing credits. The flip side? The losing sides in the one-sided matches were brutal. Jose Luis Gonzalez and Álvaro Melendez Amaya both hit -26.1 FP, while Javier Ruiz (-30.4) and Santiago Pineda Cabello (-25.8) were similarly hammered. Owning any of those four was a rough afternoon.
On the women's side, the scoring ceiling was lower than in the men's — Monica Gomez Rivas's 38.1 FP topped the chart, compared to a men's ceiling of 79.4 FP. That's partly the ranking multiplier and difficulty coefficient doing their work: big wins over weaker opposition in the men's bracket inflated certain scores significantly. The three-set matches on both sides tended to produce moderate, not spectacular, FP totals — Patiniotis and Garcia Garcia's 19.5 each was solid but not explosive. That's the nature of close, grinding wins: the game score component stays modest when margins are tight.
Let's talk about Franco Dal Bianco's 79.4 FP, because that number deserves a proper explanation. The round base at R64 is just 1 point — it's early doors in the tournament. But add the win bonus and that jumps to 7. Then the game score component kicks in: Dal Bianco and Lopez won 6-2, 6-1, which is a dominant scoreline with big game margins, and that added 18.2 points. Pile on a stats bonus of 9 (think aces, break points converted, serve dominance) and the subtotal is 34.2. Now here's where it gets interesting. Dal Bianco carries a ranking multiplier of 1.35 — he's not one of the elite few who get penalised for being expected to win, so that multiplier bumps him up to 46.2. Finally, the difficulty coefficient of 1.72 reflects the fact that his opponents, while not world-beaters, were still a real-enough match-up to push his score over the line. Multiply it out: 46.2 × 1.72 = 79.4 FP. That's how you top the leaderboard.
Now compare that to Clement Geens's 57.5 FP from an equally dominant 6-0, 6-2 win. Geens had an even better game score component — 22.1 — reflecting that near-perfect scoreline. His subtotal after adding a stats bonus of 8 was actually higher than Dal Bianco's at 37.1. But his ranking multiplier (1.28) and difficulty coefficient (1.21) were both lower, meaning the system rewarded him less for beating a weaker pair. The lesson is clear: raw dominance on court is only part of the story. Who you beat, and how unexpected that win is, shapes your FP just as much as the scoreline itself. Dal Bianco's opponents were rated tougher, and that 1.72 coefficient is the reason he sits 22 points clear of Geens at the top of the board.
💎 Back Gonzalo Alfonso (#26, 91.5 credits, 0.39 FP/credit avg) — that value rating is the best on the advancing men's list, and his 35.3 average FP shows he's consistently delivering. One of the clearest holds heading into R32.
🚀 Timeo Fonteny already showed 57.9 FP is on the table for him — if he's in your budget, he's a must-look for R32. His pairing with Nacho Moragues Moltò (35.1 FP this round) is firing, and both look comfortable in Paris.
💡 Patricia Martinez Fortun (#49, just 49.4 credits) is ludicrously cheap for a player averaging 10.3 FP who just posted 31.8 FP with a clean 7-5, 6-1 win. At 0.21 FP/credit she's the best-value women's option still standing — pick her if you need budget relief without sacrificing output.
⚠️ Think carefully before holding Marta Caparros Maldonado (#42, 89.5 credits, 0.19 FP/credit) — she won in three sets and the value ratio is middling. Agueda Perez Ortiz at 0.12 FP/credit is even shakier. Both are expensive relative to what they're returning. There are better places to put those credits.
🔥 Franco Dal Bianco's 79.4 FP is the benchmark — a straight-sets hammering amplified by a 1.35 ranking multiplier and a 1.72 difficulty coefficient made it the standout fantasy performance of the entire round
🎾 The Geens-Guichard wrecking ball — a 6-0, 6-2 annihilation that combined for 104 FP as a pair and left their opponents with -56.2 FP between them, one of the most lopsided outcomes of R64
⚔️ Three-set thriller of the round goes to Patiniotis / Garcia Garcia vs Fernandez / Del Castillo — two tiebreaks, three sets, and a final score of 7-6(4), 6(6)-7, 7-6(5) that had everything except a comfortable fantasy return
📉 Fantasy bloodbath alert: Jose Luis Gonzalez and Álvaro Melendez Amaya both finished on -26.1 FP, while Javier Ruiz hit -30.4 FP — owning any of these three was a genuine points drain that could hurt a manager's tournament leaderboard position badly
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ganchitos team | 164.3 |
| 2 | Cojos rulo | 152.1 |
| 3 | Mochuelos | 149.1 |
| 4 | Guisanderos | 146.9 |
| 5 | Alpha Mika | 146.1 |
1. Three-set wins rarely produce elite FP at this stage — the game score stays modest when it's close. Prioritise picks you trust to win clean.
2. Difficulty coefficient matters as much as performance — a dominant win over a strong pair (like Dal Bianco) will always out-score a dominant win over a weak pair (like the Geens match). Chase the upsets.
3. Negative FP from losing players is a real drag on total scores — don't hold dead weight or speculative picks in one-sided matchups where your player is likely to get bageled.
R32 is where the points really start flowing — round base triples to 3, the field gets tougher, and the gap between smart squads and lazy ones widens fast. Update your picks before the deadline and don't leave credits sitting on the bench.