Martina Calvo won the London Premier Padel P1 on 9 August alongside Claudia Fernandez, and at 18 years, 1 month and 4 days became the youngest player ever to win a title on the highest professional circuit. She beat the record set last year in Bordeaux by Andrea Ustero by 20 days.
The final at Olympia London finished 7-5 6-3 in 1 hour and 45 minutes against Delfi Brea and Gemma Triay, winners in Malaga and, a week earlier, in Pretoria. The number 4 seeds led 3-0 and then 4-1 in the opening set before the top seeds fought back and lost serve again just before the tiebreak. Fernandez and Calvo raced to 5-0 in the second set, and the gap closed to 5-3 before they served it out.
In the men's final, Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia needed three sets to beat Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan 6-3 5-7 7-5. It was their eighth title of the season, after Riyadh, Cancun, Rome, Valencia, Valladolid, Bordeaux and Malaga, leaving their rivals on six.
The Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour now breaks for the summer and resumes at the end of the month with the P1 in Madrid followed by the Major in Paris.
