Brussels P2 2026: New Pairs, Old Tears, the Race Reopens

Juan Lebrón and Leo Augsburger beat Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the men's final at the Brussels P2 to take their first title together, ending the Golden Boys' run and writing 2026's first real plot twist on the men's tour. It was the second meeting between the two pairs and Lebrón/Augsburger's first win after losing the previous. On the women's side, Beatriz González and Paula Josemaría closed out their third title in a row, beating world No. 1s Gemma Triay and Delfina Brea 7-5, 6-2 in the fourth consecutive final between the two pairs. Triay was playing her 100th career final. The race for the 2026 season is wide open.

The men's final ran an hour and thirty-seven minutes on Court. The Golden Boys took the first set 6-2, breaking in games six and eight and finishing the manga in 28 minutes the way they have won most things since 2024: clean and ruthless. The match turned in the fifth game of set 2, when Lebrón and Augsburger broke for the first time and rode it to a 6-3 levelling. From that point on they didn't concede a single break point. The decisive break in set 3 came in game four, and they closed 6-3 with ten more winners than Coello and Tapia. Coach Agustín Gómez Silingo, working with Juanma Rodríguez, has spent the off-season building Lebrón back toward consistency. "Beyond an aggressive style of play, I'm very happy to now be more consistent," Lebrón said after the win. "You have no idea the work they do." On Augsburger, more economical: "Al lado tengo a un fenómeno" — at my side I have a phenomenon. Augsburger broke down at the trophy ceremony. It's his second title in carreer, and Lebrón's first since the Cancún P2 with Stupaczuk fourteen months ago.

The path to the final is a study in how the men's tour just rebuilt itself. Seeded fourth, Lebrón and Augsburger entered at the round of 16 and didn't drop a set until the final: 6-2, 7-6(5) over Collado and Hernández, 7-5, 6-4 over Alonso and Goñi in the quarters, then a clean 6-4, 6-4 over Chingalán in what Spanish press called the golpe de autoridad of the week. Behind them, the chaos kept producing. Franco Stupaczuk and Miguel Yanguas — another off-season partnership born from a 2025 reshuffle, Stupa was Lebrón's 2024 partner and Yanguas spent 2025 with Coki Nieto — beat Bautista and Campagnolo 6-1, 6-2 in the quarters before the Golden Boys ended their run 7-5, 6-2 in a semifinal closer than the score reads. Nieto's new partnership with Jon Sanz produced the tournament's biggest scare for Coello and Tapia, pushing them to a 7-6(4), 5-7, 6-3 quarterfinal. Three of the four men's semifinal pairs were formed in the last six months. Chingalán is the only major men's pair that survived the off-season intact.

The women's final was, if anything, more emotionally loaded. Brussels was the fourth consecutive final between Triay/Brea and Bea González/Paula Josemaría: Cancún went to Triay/Brea, the next three to Perlamita. It was also Triay's 100th career final, and the weight of it surfaced. At 2-1 to Bea and Paula in set 2, Triay broke down at the bench. Her partner Brea is, in another wrinkle, Bea's former partner — the two won this same Brussels event together in 2024. Perlamita took the first set 7-5 on the back of late aggression from Bea and consistency from Paula, ran the second 6-2, and finished with 46 winners to 34, 11 break points conceded by Triay and Brea, and one hour and fifty-two minutes on the clock. González and Josemaría also produced the tournament's most dramatic match in the semis, coming back from 3-6 down in the first set to beat Sofía Araújo and Ariana Sánchez 6-3, 6-0. "Cada una tiene su propia guerra interna," Bea said about Triay's tears. "Nosotras estamos centradas en lo nuestro y si hacemos bien nuestro juego, el partido acabará cayendo." Three titles deep on the run-up to a number-one push.

Brussels was the first European stop of the season, and the takeaway is that 2026 isn't going to be a coronation. The Golden Boys remain the team to beat. Triay and Brea remain the most-decorated active women's pair on tour. But there are now two more pairs with finals trophies and the belief that comes with them, and the tour heads to South America next: Asunción P2, then the P1 in Buenos Aires, where the conditions change and the Argentine half of every new partnership gets a home crowd. Padel's pair market doesn't usually move in spring, but a few results like Brussels can change that.