July 29, 2026
Borrero and Baldi torch the scoreboard with 48.1 FP each, while the men's bracket delivers drama in bunches
The Pretoria P1 kicked off in serious style, with 28 matches packed into the Round of 32 and fantasy managers across the globe either punching the air or staring at their screens in disbelief. The headline number? 48.1 fantasy points — the joint-highest score of the round, shared by Marta Borrero and Caterina Maria Baldi after they dismantled the local wildcard pairing of Linge Steenkamp and Zoe Kruger in a ruthless 6-2 6-0 demolition. Meanwhile, Martina Fassio Goyeneche and Raquel Eugenio Barrera weren't far behind at 47.9 FP each, making it crystal clear that the women's draw was where fantasy gold was being minted in Round of 32.
The headline result on the men's side was almost comically one-sided on paper but utterly dominant in practice. Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia swatted aside Gonzalo Alfonso and Tino Libaak 6-4 6-4, racking up 9.3 FP each — respectable, but not spectacular. That's the curse of being world number one: the ranking multiplier works against you, and beating a pair that finished on -1.9 FP doesn't exactly send the difficulty coefficient through the roof. Alejandro Galan and Federico Chingotto had a similarly tidy afternoon, dismissing Juan Ignacio Rubini and Maxi Sanchez 6-2 7-6(6) to bank 12.2 FP apiece. Neither elite pair will top the fantasy charts this week, but they're exactly the kind of safe floor picks that keep your squad ticking.
The real drama — and the real fantasy points — came from the mid-table grinders. Enrique Goenaga and Manuel Castaño were the standout men's scorers, posting 30.7 and 32.4 FP respectively after a grinding three-set win over Jorge Nieto and Jon Sanz (7-6(3), 6(4)-7, 6-4). That kind of three-set war burns points into the scoreboard — the extended match time means more stats, more break points, more opportunity to accumulate. Tolito Aguirre and Pablo Garcia Rodrigo weren't far off either, with 30.2 and 33.7 FP from a clinical 6-2 6-4 win, and Javier Garcia and Alex Ruiz posted 28.5 and 25.0 FP from a dominant 6-2 6-3 victory. These are the mid-range picks who are genuinely delivering value right now.
There were upsets too. Aimar Goñi and Edu Alonso came through a real fight against Pablo Reina Ambel and Marcel Font, winning 7-5 3-6 7-6(3) to bank 10.3 FP each — and crucially, Reina Ambel and Font finished on exactly 0.0 FP, which is the brutal reality of a close-loss result under our scoring system. Inigo Jofre and Jairo Bautista also survived a heart-stopper against Maxi Sanchez Blasco and Daniel Santigosa — that third-set tiebreak was 9-7 on the scoreline — but with 7.9 and 7.3 FP, they didn't cash in as much as you'd hope from a thriller. On the flip side, Sanchez Blasco (12.8) and Santigosa (13.1) actually outscored the winners, which tells you everything about how the ranking multiplier rewards the underdog who goes the distance.
| # | Player | FP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pablo Garcia Rodrigo | 33.7 |
| 2 | Manuel Castaño | 32.4 |
The women's Round of 32 was nothing short of a fantasy feast. Marta Borrero and Caterina Maria Baldi delivered the round's joint-highest scores — 48.1 FP each — with a 6-2 6-0 scoreline that didn't leave Linge Steenkamp and Zoe Kruger with a single game in the second set. It was clinical, it was cold, and from a fantasy perspective it was near-perfect execution. Martina Fassio Goyeneche and Raquel Eugenio Barrera matched that energy almost identically, posting 47.9 FP apiece after a 6-0 6-0 obliteration of Tamara Pieters and Simoné Roets — a double bagel that left those two on a jaw-dropping -31.1 FP each. If you had Pieters or Roets in your squad, you felt that one in your soul.
Marta Caparros Maldonado and Julieta Evangelina Bidahorria were the next-best performers, with 35.4 and 36.8 FP from a 6-3 6-2 win that was clean and authoritative. Victoria Iglesias Segador was the round's standout individual performer in the 'rising stock' category — 32.8 FP from a 6-3 6-4 win alongside Lorena Rufo Ortiz (26.8 FP), and with an average season FP of just 28.3 at a cost of 108.7 credits, she looks seriously underpriced right now. Marta Talavan was another eye-catcher: she and Jessica Castello Lopez pulled off a genuine upset against Sofia Saiz Vallejo and Lucia Sainz Pelegri, coming through 1-6 7-5 6-4 in three sets, and Talavan's 34.7 FP was the best individual men's or women's score outside the top four — brilliant value.
The most dramatic women's match was the Barbara Las Heras and Daria Kucheriavaia versus Jana Montes Cabruja and Marta Barrera De La Fuente encounter, which went the full three sets — 3-6 7-6(5) 7-6(3) — with Montes Cabruja and Barrera De La Fuente coming through to bank 19.0 and 13.2 FP. Las Heras and Kucheriavaia finished on -3.1 and -3.7 respectively, which stings, but barely — they pushed it to the wire and the 40% base retention rule softened the blow. The big established names didn't disappoint either: Alejandra Salazar Bengoechea and Aranzazu Osoro Ulrich (19.3 and 22.4 FP) brushed past Alix Collombon and Ksenia Sharifova 6-2 6-4 with minimal fuss.
| # | Player | FP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marta Borrero | 48.1 |
| 2 | Caterina Maria Baldi | 48.1 |
| 3 | Martina Fassio Goyeneche | 47.9 |
| 4 | Raquel Eugenio Barrera | 47.9 |
| 5 | Julieta Evangelina Bidahorria | 36.8 |
The clearest trend of this round is that dominant scorelines are doing serious heavy lifting for lower-ranked players. When you're outside the top 20, your ranking multiplier is above 1.0 — and if you win convincingly, the game score component balloons fast. Borrero, Baldi, Fassio Goyeneche and Eugenio Barrera are your proof of concept: four players combining a big game score with a healthy multiplier to crack the 47-48 FP ceiling. Compare that to Coello and Tapia's 9.3 FP from a 6-4 6-4 win, and you start to understand why elite players need to go deep into the tournament before they start printing points.
The loss-side numbers are equally instructive. Steenkamp and Kruger's -23.7 FP and the Pieters/Roets -31.1 FP are a stark warning: if you're rostering wildcard or qualifier-tier players and they get bageled, you're haemorrhaging credits. On the men's side, Javier Barahona and Alex Chozas finished on -13.5 FP each after being swept 6-2 6-4 by Aguirre and Garcia Rodrigo, and Victor Ruiz posted a brutal -15.9 FP from a 6-2 6-1 loss. The key phrase this round: blowout losses are as dangerous to your fantasy squad as blowout wins are profitable.
Let's break down exactly how Marta Borrero hit 48.1 fantasy points — because the maths is genuinely satisfying once you see it laid out. She starts with a Round of 32 base of 5 points. Win bonus kicks in: +4 on top, so now she's at 9. Then comes the game score component — that 6-2 6-0 scoreline against Steenkamp and Kruger was devastatingly dominant, and dominant scorelines (especially games with a bagel set) reward you heavily: +22.1 points. Add a stats bonus of 9.0 for aces, break points converted and serve/return dominance, and the subtotal reaches 40.1. Then the ranking multiplier — Borrero isn't an elite top-5 player, so instead of being penalised, she gets a 1.2x boost. Forty point one times 1.2 equals exactly 48.1 FP. The difficulty coefficient stays at 1.0 because Steenkamp and Kruger weren't ranked high enough to push it above that — so no extra multiplier, but none needed. Caterina Maria Baldi hit the exact same number through the exact same path, which makes sense: same match, same result, same formula.
Now contrast that with Arturo Coello's 9.3 FP — also a win, also a two-set result. Coello starts with the same Round of 32 base of 5, takes the win bonus to 9, but his game score isn't as dominant and his stats bonus is more modest. Then the crucial difference: as a world number one, his ranking multiplier is below 1.0. He's expected to win these matches comfortably — the game knows that — so the system scales his return down. That's not a punishment, it's calibration. Coello's ceiling comes later in the tournament when the base points skyrocket, the opponents get tougher (difficulty coefficient rises), and his sheer consistency starts compounding. The takeaway for your squad? Lower-ranked players who win big in the early rounds can genuinely outscore the world's best. Pick your moments.
💰 Juan Lebron is your best value pick in the men's draw — 0.65 FP/credit is the highest value ratio among advancing men, at a cost of 136.7 credits against a 89.1 average FP. He and Augsburger won comfortably in two sets and look ominous going forward.
📊 Federico Chingotto is quietly the most productive elite men's player this season — 113.4 average FP at 0.59 FP/credit is better than Galan, Coello and Tapia. He's expensive at 193.7 credits but he's delivering where it counts. Don't drop him.
⚡ Victoria Iglesias Segador is the underpriced gem of the women's draw right now — 32.8 FP this round, a season average of 28.3, and she'll only cost you 108.7 credits. At #20 in the rankings her multiplier is working in her favour. She's a must-roster.
⚠️ Be careful holding Martina Fassio Goyeneche and Raquel Eugenio Barrera into the next round unless you're sure of their matchup — they scored brilliantly here (47.9 FP each) against opposition that frankly wasn't competitive, and their difficulty coefficient held at 1.0. If they draw a seeded pair next, the ceiling rises, but so does the risk of a flat performance.
🔥 48.1 FP tie at the top — Borrero and Baldi's 6-2 6-0 demolition was the fantasy performance of the round, and it wasn't particularly close
😬 Double bagel disaster — Pieters and Roets went down 0-6 0-6 and hemorrhaged -31.1 FP each, the single worst individual outcome of the round
⚔️ Three-set thrillers dominated the drama — Goenaga/Castaño, Jofre/Bautista, Leal/Guerrero, Campagnolo/Gonzalez all went the distance in the men's draw, while the women produced their own in Las Heras vs Montes Cabruja
📈 Marta Talavan's 34.7 FP upset special — she and Castello Lopez toppled the seeded Saiz Vallejo/Sainz Pelegri pairing in three sets, and Talavan was the best-scoring woman outside the dominant winners
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DavidCereCat | 441.7 |
| 2 | Padelcilu | 383.1 |
| 3 | FJorgensenTeam | 374 |
| 4 | sebsx4 | 353.2 |
| 5 | GusTeam | 336.9 |
1. Three-set matches pump up stats bonuses — when two evenly matched pairs face off, prioritise picking players from those clashes over comfortable favourites
2. The -31.1 FP from Pieters/Roets is a reminder: never roster wildcard or qualifier pairings in early rounds when there's a genuine skill gap on the other side of the net
3. Tournament leaderboard leader DavidCereCat is 58.6 points ahead of second place — if you're chasing, you need high-multiplier upsets this week, not safe big-name holds
Round of 16 matchups are live — update your squad now before the window slams shut and the big points start dropping.