But when it came to challenging Agustin Tapia and Arturo Coello, the successive executioners of Belluati and Lamperti (in the half), Campagnolo / Sanchez (in the quarter) and Navarro / Tello (in the eighth) were unable to achieve a new feat.

Did Leo Augsburger and Tino Libaak lose momentum watching the long and thrilling female final who preceded theirs? The two young Argentinians aged 18 and 17 were indeed in the audience for the Salazar / Triay vs Ortega / Gonzalez match.

Perhaps impressed by what was at stake and crushed by the firepower of Tapia and Coello, the two kids from the Nox team in Barcelona were too inconsistent, committing many mistakes. Their few strokes of brilliance were too isolated for them to manage to chain points and games.

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Coello was intractable in the final

Opposite, the favorites played on cloud nine to win, in just 42 minutes and with a score of 6/1 6/0, their second title of the season on the WPT, after the one picked up in Abu Dhabi. With a first set of 25 minutes and a second completed in just 17 minutes, it would be the most expeditious final ever played on the World Padel Tour.

But without a doubt, Augsburger and Libaak will have the opportunity to experience other finals and win them – together or separately – thus erasing this bitter memory.

Tapia and Coello are positioning themselves more than ever to take the world No. 1 spot from Juan Lebron and Ale Galan, who have not yet reached the final this season.

To review the match, it's happening on Canal + Sports 360

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After 40 years of tennis, Jérôme falls into the pot of padel in 2018. Since then, he thinks about it every morning while shaving… but never shaves pala in hand! Journalist in Alsace, he has no other ambition than to share his passion with you, whether you speak French, Italian, Spanish or English.

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