Men’s final: Coello and Tapia do it again, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
For a little while, it looked like the Milan final might belong to somebody else. Third seeds Juan Lebron and Leandro Augsburger came out firing against top seeds Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia and took the opening set 6-4. The world number ones had dropped a set in a final. The crowd smelled an upset.
Then the machine did what the machine does. Coello and Tapia regrouped, took the second set 6-3 and ran away with the third 6-2, closing out the Milan P1 title in three sets. It is their 12th title of the 2026 season and their fourth in a row, after the Paris Major, the Rotterdam P2 and the Dusseldorf P2. It is also their second Milan crown, adding to the one they won at the Allianz Cloud in 2024.
The path to the final tells the story of how far ahead of the field the top seeds are. Coello and Tapia beat fourth seeds Franco Stupaczuk and Jon Sanz 6-4, 6-3 in Saturday’s semi-final. On the other half of the draw, Lebron and Augsburger pulled off the weekend’s biggest surprise by knocking out second seeds Alejandro Galan and Fede Chingotto 0-6, 6-2, 6-2, storming back after a first-set bagel to reach their fourth final of the season.
Women’s final: Sanchez and Ustero rally, and Sanchez makes history
The women’s final had the heavier stakes, and it lived up to them. Third seeds Ari Sanchez and Andrea Ustero beat second seeds Bea Gonzalez and Paula Josemaria 7-6, 6-3 in a final that turned on a first-set tiebreak. Sanchez and Ustero edged the breaker 7-3, then carried that momentum through the second set to close out the title.
It is the pair’s fifth title of the 2026 season, and their third triumph in four tournaments. But the bigger story is the individual one. The win gave Sanchez the 58th title of her career, tying the all-time women’s padel record held by Gemma Triay and Alejandra Salazar. Few players ever get to share a line with those two names. Sanchez earned it by coming back in a final she did not control from the start.
That is the stat that will follow this tournament. Milan P1 2026 is the event where Ari Sanchez joined the 58-title club, where Coello and Tapia’s winning machine rolled to four straight, and where the season’s two defining stories, dominance on the men’s side and a wide-open, record-chasing race on the women’s side, both got their latest chapter. On to the next one.