What if Ale Galan and Arturo Coello decided to team up for a few events, while waiting for their respective partners to return to form?

Coello and Galan, a temporary luxury pair

For the moment, this association is not planned. However, given Lebron and Tapia's current physical woes, we figure it would be almost natural for Coello and Galan to consider a temporary partnership.

While waiting for the return of "del Lobo", the Madrid player currently plays with Sanz, but an association with Coello would be more competitive on paper, and it is not the Navarrese who will say the opposite. Besides, we noticed in Marbella that Ale spent a lot of time “in the fridge”, and it would obviously be different with Arturo, who is able to punish his opponents from any corner of the track.

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We therefore say to ourselves that an association between Coello and Galan could be beneficial, at least in the short term, in order to keep up the pace and prevent competitors from grabbing too many points from the two pairs that dominate the ranking.

That's especially true for Lebron and Galan, who have missed a lot this season, and see Di Nenno and Stupa getting closer, as you'll see below:

ranking padel wpt 2023

What interest for Coello / Tapia?

As you have seen above, Coello and Tapia currently have a comfortable lead with around 18 points each, which puts them out of any immediate threat. Before his teammate suffered arm pain, Arturo also had to take a break to let his body recover after a start to the season of rare intensity.

The player from Valladolid must certainly want to take advantage of his teammate's absence to fully recover. In the short term, we say to ourselves that he would be right to rest and prepare for the rest of the season which is going to be very long. Obviously, if Tapia is out for several weeks then the Spaniard will probably prefer to play and keep up the pace. But we are not there yet...

On the other hand, we say to ourselves that Coello and Tapia have every interest in ensuring that Lebron and Galan remain their runners-up in the standings. Indeed, the players of Mariano Amat are the only ones to have really worried the Spanish-Argentinian pair this season, and therefore we imagine that Arturo and Agus' prefer that they remain in second place. Otherwise, they could play them in the semi-finals and therefore potentially be more in danger in the tournaments...

So in your opinion, will we be entitled to a temporary association between Coello and Galan?

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