September 13, 2026
🏆 Tournament ChampionsParis Major 2026 – Crowning the Champions
Tapia and Coello claim the City of Light, while Alpha Mika turns fantasy padel into an art form with 863 points.
Paris delivered. On the clay courts of the French capital, Agustin Tapia and Arturo Coello survived a brutal three-set final to lift the Paris Major 2026 trophy — and in the fantasy standings, Alpha Mika did something equally ruthless, pulling 863 points out of 86 matches to run away with the title by a country mile. Eighty-six matches, nineteen of them going the distance across three sets, and somehow this tournament managed to feel like it was always building toward one explosive conclusion.
🥇 Final Standings — Top 10
🎾 The Premier Padel Final
Men's Final: Agustin Tapia / Arturo Coello def. Alejandro Galan / Federico Chingotto 6-3 4-6 7-6(1)
Women's Final: Andrea Ustero Prieto / Ariana Sanchez Fallada def. Claudia Fernandez Sanchez / Martina Calvo Santamaria 2-6 0-6
The men's draw was a war. Tapia and Coello cruised through the semis against Leo Augsburger and Juan Lebron 7-5, 6-3 — efficient, dominant, no drama needed — while on the other side of the bracket, Alejandro Galan and Federico Chingotto had to survive a genuine firefight against Martin Di Nenno and Francisco Navarro, clawing back from a set down in a 5-7, 2-6 reverse that must have shaken their confidence heading into the final. It didn't show. The final itself was a masterpiece of tension: Tapia and Coello took the opener 6-3, Galan and Chingotto hit back to level with a 4-6 second set, and then everything collapsed into a tie-break that finished 7-6(1). A champion-level performance under maximum pressure.
On the women's side, the final was far less cinematic — but the journey to it was anything but straightforward. Ariana Sanchez Fallada and Andrea Ustero Prieto had to dig deep in the semis against Sofia Araujo and Marta Ortega Gallego, losing the first set 5-7, then finding another gear entirely to close out 6-4, 6-1. Claudia Fernandez Sanchez and Martina Calvo Santamaria, meanwhile, produced one of the upsets of the tournament by beating Gemma Triay Pons and Delfina Brea Senesi 4-6, 2-6 — a result that rocked the draw and sent ripples through every fantasy lineup in the game. The final itself? Ustero Prieto and Sanchez Fallada were absolutely ruthless: 2-6, 0-6, a statement scoreline that announced two new champions without apology.
📖 The Champion's Story
Alpha Mika didn't just win the Paris Major fantasy title — they dismantled the competition round by round with a composure that felt almost unsettling. The opening round was quietly strong at 146 points, built on a women's lineup that was already humming with values like 392, 540, 418, and 463. But the real signature of this campaign was consistency under fire: three rounds in a row of 110, 146, and 154 points, absorbing penalties along the way (-36, -33, -12) without ever letting the leaderboard gap close. The quarterfinal women's stack hit 434/553/413/469 — that 553 was no accident; this was a manager who understood value and timing in equal measure.
Then came the Final. One hundred and twenty-eight points clear of second place going into the last round, Alpha Mika still posted 217 points on the day — the kind of final-round performance that wins tournaments on its own. The men's side delivered 65/279/66/212, the women 410/696/388/555, and a minor -6 penalty meant absolutely nothing at that stage. Eight hundred and sixty-three points in total. That 217-point final is the number that defines this campaign: when the title was already half-won, Alpha Mika kept swinging.
📈 Alpha Mika — Round-by-Round
🥈 BaiamontiKing
BaiamontiKing's 735-point campaign tells one of the stranger stories of this tournament — because those lineup numbers never changed. From the Round of 64 straight through to the Final, BaiamontiKing ran the exact same team: M: 65/100/66/465, W: 410/489/388/493, every single round. No transfers, no rotations, pure faith in the picks. And it nearly worked. A 31-point opening round hurt badly, but the recovery was real — 133, 117, 89, 143, and then a tournament-high 223 in the final that was the single best round-six score in the top ten. The problem? Alpha Mika's 217 in the same round came with 128 points of runway already banked. BaiamontiKing found the winning formula one round too late.
🥉 Lobita
Lobita earned third place the hard way. Five rounds of penalties — including a brutal -60 in the Round of 32 — and a final-round lineup that returned 162 points meant the podium finish came through grinding consistency rather than any single explosive week. The women's stack in the semis told the real story: 410/589/388/661, that 661 a pick that clearly paid off when it mattered. Lobita's 712 points held off Tim (709) by just three points, which in this game is basically a photo finish. Hats off.
💎 Fantasy Takeaways
🏆 Final-round firepower still matters — Alpha Mika's 217-point close was the highest score of any manager in the decisive round, proving that coasting to the finish line is never actually an option.
🔒 The set-and-forget experiment has limits — BaiamontiKing's unchanged lineup from R64 to the Final is fascinating, but that 31-point opener left a gap that even a 223-point final couldn't fully close.
⚠️ Penalties are the silent title killers — Lobita absorbed over 170 points in cumulative penalties across the week and still nearly caught BaiamontiKing. Cut those losses and third place easily becomes second.
Paris is done. The trophy cabinet is stocked, the fantasy standings are locked, and the question now is: where does the tour go next? Stay tuned to OutOfTheCourt for every lineup tip, squad preview, and fantasy breakdown as the Premier Padel calendar rolls on — you don't want to go into the next one flying blind.