Padel rankings: who is number one, and how the FIP ranking works
On 26 October 2026, Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia are joint number one in the men's FIP ranking, and Gemma Triay and Delfina Brea share first place in the women's. Alejandro Galán and Bea González are third. Below is how the points add up, why partners tie, and where to check the live list.
Men
- 1 Arturo Coello ESP
- 1 Agustín Tapia ARG
- 3 Alejandro Galán ESP
Women
- 1 Gemma Triay ESP
- 1 Delfina Brea ARG
- 3 Bea González ESP
FIP ranking, week 44, checked by hand on 26 October 2026. The full, live list is on the official FIP site.
One ranking for the whole professional game
Professional padel has a single world ranking, the FIP ranking, kept by the International Padel Federation. Premier Padel, the top circuit, is run by the FIP, so it has no separate table: points from Premier Padel events and from the second tier, the CUPRA FIP Tour, all go into the same ranking. There is one ranking for men and one for women, and both are updated every week.
The ranking is individual, even though every match is played in pairs. Each player has their own total, and a pair's standing for a tournament is the two totals added together.
How players earn ranking points
Points depend on two things: the category of the tournament and the round a player reaches. The bigger the event, the more it pays.
- Premier Padel Major. The top category. The winners get 2,000 points, the runners-up 1,200 and the semi-finalists 720.
- Premier Padel P1. Winners 1,000, runners-up 600, semi-finalists 360.
- Premier Padel P2. Winners 600, runners-up 360, semi-finalists 180.
- Premier Padel Finals. The season-ending event, worth 1,500 points to the winners.
- CUPRA FIP Tour. Four levels below Premier Padel: Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze. A title is worth 300, 150, 80 and 40 points respectively, so these events matter most to players working their way up.
Earlier rounds pay less, on a scale that roughly halves with each round: quarter-finalists at a Major take 360 points, and a first win at a smaller event is worth only a handful.
Only the best 22 results count, over 52 weeks
A player's total is the sum of their best 22 results from Premier Padel and CUPRA FIP Tour events. Players can enter more tournaments than that, but anything outside the best 22 does not add to the total, so the ranking does not reward volume on its own.
The window is a rolling 52 weeks. Points won at a tournament stay on a player's total for a year, then drop off when the same week comes round again and are replaced by whatever the player earns that week. That is why commentators talk about players "defending" points: a pair who won an event last year has to do as well again to keep those points, and a bad week there can cost them places even if they play well everywhere else.
Why partners can share a position
When two players have exactly the same number of points, they share the position and the next place is skipped. That is what you see at the top right now: Coello and Tapia are both number one, so Galán is listed third, and the same goes for Triay, Brea and Bea González in the women's ranking.
Ties at the top are not a coincidence. Partners who play every tournament together go out in the same round every time, so they earn identical points week after week. As long as neither player misses an event or plays one with someone else, their totals stay level. A tie usually splits when a pair breaks up, when one player is injured, or when points from an old partnership drop out of the 52-week window at different times.
How the ranking decides entry and seeding
For each tournament, pairs are ordered by their combined points, the two players' totals added together. That figure decides three things.
- Direct entry. The highest ranked pairs go straight into the main draw.
- Qualifying. Pairs without enough points play a qualifying stage in the first days of the tournament, and those who come through it join the main draw.
- Seeding. The top pairs are seeded, which keeps them apart in the draw so the strongest teams cannot meet in the early rounds.
Organisers can also hand out wildcards, invitations that let a pair into the draw whatever their points, often to give home players a chance. This is why a new partnership between two players outside the top places may have to start in qualifying, however well they play together, and why players watch their ranking so closely before a big event.
The ranking and the Race
The FIP also publishes a second table called the Race. It counts only results from the current calendar year, so it starts again from zero in January, and it decides which 16 players qualify for the Premier Padel Finals in Barcelona at the end of the season. The ranking, with its 52-week window, is the one used for entry and seeding during the year.
Where to check the live ranking
The official ranking is published by the FIP at padelfip.com/fip-rankings, with the full men's and women's lists and each player's points. It changes every week, so treat the top three above as a snapshot from week 44 of 2026 and check the official list for anything newer.
To see the ranking play out, find out where to watch Premier Padel this week, and for what the tour is and what a club player can copy from it, read Premier Padel explained.