A pair steeped in history is reunited at FIP ​​Bronze Marnes II. Thomas Leygue will compete alongside Jesús Moya, the Spaniard with whom he shared the track during his serious Achilles tendon injury in Rome in 2025. This partnership will also allow the Frenchman to return to his right side, with a partner accustomed to playing on the left. 

The reunion will inevitably have a special flavor.

On the first list of entrants of the  FIP Bronze Marnes II Thomas Leygue and Jesús Moya appear in  second position , with a total of  816 points French is displayed.  149th in the world while the Spaniard appears  138e .

At this stage of registration, only the pair  Nacho Moragues / Timeo Fonteny , credited with 894 points, is ahead of them. Behind them, we find in particular Bergeron / Seurin, Boronad / Robert, Joris / Blanqué, Vives / Guy de Chamisso or Muesser / Hugounenq.

This position could obviously still change before the final closing of registrations this evening.

Leygue is reunited with Moya… and his right flank

From a sporting perspective, the association also makes sense.

 Jesús Moya is a left-footed player which will allow Thomas Leygue to regain his  preferred position on the right .

This detail is far from insignificant in the current period for the Frenchman, who is still trying to find his bearings and gradually rebuild his ranking after several months away from the international circuit.

Most importantly, the two men will not need to discover how they work.

They already know each other very well.

In 2025, Leygue had found a real project with Moya

Thomas Leygue and Jesús Moya had started building their association in the spring of 2025.

They had notably reached the round of 16 of the FIP Silver in Alcalá de Guadaíra before going through the Buenos Aires P1, where they had managed to get out of the qualifying rounds.

At that time, Moya was still  66th in the world , while Leygue occupied the  86th place FIP  before the FIP Silver in Bandol.

More than just a one-off partnership, the two players had decided to commit for the long term. Leygue explained after his injury that they had planned  eight tournaments together , including Bandol, Rome, Valladolid, Bordeaux, Málaga and Barcelona on the program.

The Frenchman felt he had finally found the consistency he was looking for on the international circuit.

Rome had stopped everything

Then came the  Premier Padel Italy Major 2025 .

In the first round of the main draw, Leygue and Moya face the Portuguese brothers  Miguel and Nuno Deus .

The Franco-Spanish pair got off to a perfect start and won the first set.  6/4 .

At 1-1 in the second set, Thomas Leygue moves back on a lob to play a high ball. On the reception, he collapses.

The diagnosis will confirm a  Achilles tendon rupture immediately ending his 2025 season.

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The image is even more powerful today:  The last partner with whom Leygue was building a real project before this long interruption was Jesús Moya. 

More than a year later, the two men will therefore resume together a story that was abruptly interrupted in Rome.

Two players who have lost a lot in the rankings

Their presence in Marnes also tells the story of two particular trajectories.

For Leygue, the drop in the standings is obviously directly linked to his prolonged absence. While he was settled around the  86th in the world before his injury it appears today  149e  on the list of those recruited from Marnes.

The challenge is now clear: to regain rhythm, string together matches and above all gradually recover the points lost during his long absence.

But the situation of Jesús Moya is also interesting.

The Spaniard has also fallen sharply in the international hierarchy.  92nd in the world at the start of the 2026 season He is currently around 140, while his best career ranking is a  27th place in the world .

At FIP ​​Bronze Marnes II, it now appears  138e .

At only 26 years old, Moya's current ranking is therefore very far from the level at which he has already played. But this is explained by two micro-tears in his pectoral muscle which have apparently finally healed after a lot of preparation as he explained to us last May.

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A pair to watch in Marnes

On paper, Leygue / Moya thus has a rather atypical profile for a FIP Bronze.

On one hand, the Frenchman is trying to rebuild a ranking heavily affected by an injury that kept him away from the slopes for many months.

On the other hand, an old Spaniard  27th in the world he too has fallen far from his best ranking.

And above all, two players who already know each other, with a natural distribution of positions:  Moya on the left, Leygue on the right .

One year after Rome,  Thomas Leygue and Jesús Moya will therefore be able to pick up where their story abruptly left off. .

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.

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