Men's · Round of 64
Finished
| Live scores | S1 | S2 | S3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Ruiz / Facundo Lopez | 7 | 0 | 6 |
| Pablo Lijo / Tolito Aguirre | 5 | 6 | 2 |
Winner: €3,410 per player
Court: Court 1 AlghanimReceived
MajorKuwait 🇰🇼Equal pay · 0% taxToday · Men’s first round, opening day10 min read
Premier Padel Kuwait Major 2026
Live scores & today's matches ↓23 – 31 October · The Arena Kuwait · €1,044,849 prize pool · third Major of 2026
Today · Men’s first round, opening day, jump to bracket →Bas Hogeveen
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€48,000
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per champion, men and women · 0% tax withheld
Kuwait was a P1 when the tour last came here in 2024, and paid its champions €25,500 (men) and €17,000 (women) per player. In May it was upgraded to a Major, the third of 2026 after Rome and Paris: the pool rises to €1,044,849, and both titles are worth €48,000 per player. Kuwait levies no personal income tax, so that cheque arrives whole. The same title in Rome lost €14,400 to Italian withholding. Coello & Tapia, the 2024 champions here, arrive with twelve titles in 2026 after winning Milan on 18 October; in the women's draw the lead in the earnings race can change hands.
Same title, three Majors
Tax by country →The only Major of 2026 that withholds nothing
Rome, Paris and Kuwait pay the same €48,000 per player to their champions. What reaches the players differs: Italy withholds 30% from non-resident athletes, France 15%, Kuwait nothing. The Mexico Major in November withholds 25%. Coello and Tapia have already won the first two Majors of the year; a third would be the biggest net cheque of their season.
Rome, June · 30% withheld
€33,600 net per player
Paris, September · 15% withheld
€40,800 net per player
Kuwait, October · 0% withheld
€48,000 net per player
Tournament Overview
The Premier Padel Kuwait Major 2026 is played from 23 to 31 October 2026 at The Arena Kuwait, with qualifying from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 October and the main draw from Sunday 25 October. It is the third Major of the season after the Italy Major in Rome and the Paris Major at Roland-Garros. The FIP lists €1,044,849 in total prize money, about €522,425 per category. Both champions earn €48,000 per player, and each winning pair collects 2,000 FIP ranking points.
From P1 to Major in May
Kuwait was on the 2026 calendar as a P1. On 7 May 2026 Premier Padel and the FIP upgraded it to a Major, and Pretoria from a P2 to a P1, for this season only. The Qatar Major, planned for April in Doha, had been postponed over operational disruptions linked to the conflict in the region, and the two upgrades rebalance the prize money and ranking points lost with it. For the players the difference is concrete: a Kuwait title paid €25,500 per player in 2024 (men) and pays €48,000 now, and the women's cheque rises from €17,000 to the same €48,000.
Back after a year off
Premier Padel first came to Kuwait in November 2024, when Coello and Tapia and Josemaría and Sánchez won the P1 titles. PadelSpain.net nominated it as one of five candidates for best professional padel tournament of 2024, the only one in the Arab world. In 2025 the tour skipped Kuwait and the country hosted the first FIP World Cup Pairs instead. The Major starts a week after the Milano P1 final and ends nine days before the Dubai P1 (9–15 November).
What is a Major?
A Major is the top tier of Premier Padel. In 2026 a Major means:
- €1,044,849 total prize pool, about 2.2 times a P1 and four times a P2
- Equal prize money for the men's and women's draws, round for round
- 2,000 ranking points for the winning pair, against 1,000 for a P1 and 500 for a P2
- Bigger draws: 48 men's pairs and 40 women's pairs, against 28 women's pairs at the Milano P1
Draw Sizes & the Kuwaitis in the Field
How the draws are built
Official FIP entry numbers. Qualifying sends four pairs into each main draw.
- Men's main draw: 48 pairs, 41 direct entries, 4 qualifiers, 3 wildcards. The sixteen seeds skip Sunday's first round.
- Women's main draw: 40 pairs, 34 direct entries, 4 qualifiers, 2 wildcards. Seeds 5 to 16 skip the first round; the top four seeds go straight to the round of 16 on Wednesday 28 October.
- Men's qualifying: 24 pairs, 22 direct entries and 2 wildcards, from Friday 23 October.
- Women's qualifying: 16 pairs, 15 direct entries and 1 wildcard, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October.
Kuwait 🇰🇼 in the main draw
Three of the five main-draw wildcards went to Kuwaiti players. One first-round win guarantees at least €3,410 per player.
- Men: Abdulaziz Redha plays with Spain's Pau Miñano against Enrique Goenaga / Guillermo Collado on Sunday 25 October. The winners meet the 16th seeds, Javier Garrido / Juan Ignacio De Pascual.
- Women: Noor Hasan and Valeria Atencia open against Lorena Vano / Carmen Castillón, with the ninth seeds Caldera / Goenaga waiting. Dalal Al Qenaei and Eugenia Guimet face Natividad López / Aida Martínez, then possibly the sixth seeds Icardo / Jensen.
- The other wildcards: Qatar's Rashed and Mashari Nawaf, whose own Major was postponed in April, and Pablo Castillo with Egypt's Youssef Hossam, who would meet Galán and Chingotto in the second round.
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Today · Men’s first round, opening day
The Arena Kuwait · All times AST (UTC+3) · Free on Premier Padel YouTube, Red Bull TV from the quarter-finals
Premier Padel publishes the official daily order of play the evening before. The men's first round starts at 14:00 on Sunday 25 October and the women's first round at 12:00 on Monday 26 October; the round of 16 starts at 12:00 on Wednesday 28, the quarter-finals at 14:00 on Thursday 29, the semi-finals at 14:00 on Friday 30, and both finals on Saturday 31 October from 16:00. We update the bracket tab live as matches complete; for the official schedule, check the FIP event page →
Kuwait (host) 🇰🇼
AST (UTC+3)
No daylight saving. From Sunday 25 October two hours ahead of Spain, Italy and France, three ahead of the UK, six ahead of Argentina.
Tickets 🎟
Qualifying + main draw
Sold separately for qualifying (23–25 October) and the main draw (25–31 October). Check availability on the Premier Padel tickets page.
🏆 Finals day
Sat 31 Oct, 16:00
Both finals on the centre court, €48,000 per player to each champion. 14:00 in Madrid, 13:00 in London.
Fri · 23 Oct
Men’s qualifying, round 1
24 pairs in men’s qualifying at The Arena Kuwait
Sat · 24 Oct
Qualifying, day 2
Men’s qualifying final round and women’s qualifying round 1 with 16 pairs
Sun · 25 Oct
Men’s first round, opening day
▶ Today: Women’s qualifying final round, then 16 men’s first-round matches from 14:00, Abdulaziz Redha and the two other wildcard pairs among them
Mon · 26 Oct
Women’s first round + men’s round of 32
Women’s first round from 12:00 with the Kuwaiti wildcards Noor Hasan and Dalal Al Qenaei; the sixteen men’s seeds enter · €3,410 per player for a round-of-32 exit
Tue · 27 Oct
Round of 32, day 2
Rest of the men’s round of 32 and the women’s second round
Wed · 28 Oct
R16, Round of 16
Men’s + women’s round of 16 from 12:00; the top four women’s seeds play their first match · €5,330 per player already banked
Thu · 29 Oct
QF, Quarter-finals
Men’s + women’s quarter-finals from 14:00 · €8,660 per player
Fri · 30 Oct
SF, Semi-finals
Men’s & women’s semi-finals from 14:00 on the centre court · €13,325 per player
Sat · 31 Oct
Finals
Women’s and men’s finals from 16:00 (14:00 in Madrid), €48,000 per player to both champions, on Red Bull TV and Premier Padel YouTube
Start times from the FIP event page, in Kuwait time (UTC+3). The daily order of play can shift; check the official FIP event page for the latest.
Prize Money Breakdown: Equal Pay, Round for Round
The Kuwait Major 2026 offers €1,044,849 in total prize money, roughly €522,425 per category. Every row below is identical for the men's and women's draws. A week earlier in Milan the same players were paid on a P1 scale, where the women's champions earned 35% less than the men's.
| Round | Per pair | Men / player | Women / player | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | €96,000 | €48,000 | €48,000 | Equal |
| Final | €48,000 | €24,000 | €24,000 | Equal |
| Semi-final | €26,650 | €13,325 | €13,325 | Equal |
| Quarter-final | €17,320 | €8,660 | €8,660 | Equal |
| Round of 16 | €10,660 | €5,330 | €5,330 | Equal |
| Round of 32 | €6,820 | €3,410 | €3,410 | Equal |
| Total prize pool | €1,044,849 | |||
Per pair = combined prize for the team. Per player = what each individual takes home. The FIP total also covers the first round and qualifying, which are not in the table. Live earnings appear on the Kuwait Major 2026 tournament page →
Major champion, 2026
€48,000
Men and women, per player
Kuwait P1 champion, 2024
€25,500 / €17,000
Men / women, per player
Milano P1 champion, 2026
€26,000 / €17,000
Men / women, 18 October
Read the full picture in our analysis of the padel gender pay gap →
Tax on Prize Money in Kuwait: 0% Withheld
Kuwait has no personal income tax, so the organisers withhold nothing from the prize money: a €48,000 champion cheque is paid in full. That puts Kuwait with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE as the zero-tax stops of the calendar, and makes it the only Major of 2026 without withholding. Rome took 30% (€14,400 per champion), Paris 15% (€7,200), and Mexico withholds 25% in November. Players still settle with the tax office of their country of residence, so a Spanish resident pays Spanish tax on Kuwaiti prize money at home; what Kuwait changes is that nothing is taken before the money leaves the country.
0%
Withholding in Kuwait
€14,400
Withheld from the same title in Rome
€48,000
Paid to each champion in Kuwait
Compare tax rates at every Premier Padel tournament in our complete tax-by-country guide →
What to watch
Three storylines at the Kuwait Major
Men's draw
A third Major in a row for Coello and Tapia, or a first for anyone else
Coello & Tapia have won both Majors of 2026, beating Galán & Chingotto in the final in Rome and in Paris, and arrive with twelve titles and €366,700 per player, €80,000 clear in the race. They won Milan on 18 October by coming from a set down against Lebrón & Augsburger, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, the pair that knocked out Galán and Chingotto 0-6, 6-2, 6-2 the day before. Seeded 1 and 3, they are in the same half again and can only meet in the semi-final. No result in Kuwait can change the men's lead: even a title for Galán and Chingotto with an early exit for the top seeds leaves them more than €35,000 behind.
Men's earnings race →Women's draw
If Sánchez and Ustero win, they lead the 2026 race
Triay & Brea lead the women's race on €204,650 per player. Sánchez & Ustero are second on €176,975, €27,675 behind, and have won three of the last four tournaments: the Paris Major, Rotterdam and Milan, where they beat Triay and Brea 6-1, 6-4 in the semi-final. The draw put both pairs in the top half, so a Kuwait title for Sánchez and Ustero means Triay and Brea finish no higher than the semi-final: €48,000 against at most €13,325, and the lead changes hands. Josemaría & González, the second seeds and Milan finalists, cannot overtake this week.
Women's earnings race →The occasion
The Gulf gets back the Major it lost in April
The 2026 Major season was meant to open in Doha in April. That event was postponed, and the Major came to Kuwait instead, two years after its first P1. Three Kuwaitis play the main draw on wildcards: Abdulaziz Redha on Sunday, Noor Hasan and Dalal Al Qenaei on Monday. A single win is worth at least €3,410 per player; our database has no tour prize money on record for Redha or Al Qenaei so far. The Dubai P1 follows from 9 November.
See the full prize breakdown ↑Key Players to Watch
All eight 2024 Kuwait finalists are back, but only Coello and Tapia still play together: every other finalist pair from 2024 has split.
Men's Draw
Arturo Coello
Top seed with Tapia, twelve titles in 2026 and €366,700 per player, including the Rome and Paris Majors. Kuwait champion in 2024, 6-4, 6-2 over Stupaczuk and Yanguas in 79 minutes.
Agustín Tapia
Coello's partner. Earned €25,500 for the Kuwait title in 2024; the same title pays €48,000 this week, with nothing withheld.
Alejandro Galán
Second seed with Chingotto, seven titles and €286,700 per player. Runner-up at both 2026 Majors; lost the Kuwait semi-final in 2024 with the same partner.
Federico Chingotto
Galán's partner. The pair won the opening set in Milan 6-0 and then lost twelve of the next sixteen games to Lebrón and Augsburger.
Juan Lebrón
Third seed with Leo Augsburger, €148,025 per player. Semi-finalists at both 2026 Majors and finalists in Milan, a set up against Coello and Tapia.
Franco Stupaczuk
Fourth seed with Jon Sanz and the 2024 Kuwait finalist with Miguel Yanguas. Semi-finalist in Milan, in Galán and Chingotto's half this week.
Women's Draw
Gemma Triay
Top seed with Brea and 2026 earnings leader on €204,650 per player with six titles, the Rome Major among them. Kuwait finalist in 2024 with Claudia Fernández.
Delfina Brea
Triay's partner. Lost the Kuwait semi-final in 2024 with Bea González; lost 6-1, 6-4 to Sánchez and Ustero in the Milan semi-final.
Ariana Sánchez
Defending Kuwait champion, with Josemaría in 2024. Third seed with Ustero, five titles in 2026 including the Paris Major and Milan, €176,975 per player.
Andrea Ustero
Sánchez's partner and the form player of the autumn: three titles and a final in the last four events.
Paula Josemaría
The other 2024 Kuwait champion, now second seed with Bea González. Six titles in 2026, €154,535 per player, beaten 7-6(3), 6-3 in the Milan final.
Claudia Fernández
Fourth seed with Martina Calvo. Paris Major finalist and Düsseldorf champion; Kuwait finalist in 2024 with Triay.
The Last Time in Kuwait: the 2024 P1
Kuwait's only previous Premier Padel tournament was the P1 of 9 to 17 November 2024. Both finals went to the pairs that finished the season as world number one.
2024 · P1
Kuwait City, final on 17 November 2024
Per player
€25,500
Coello and Tapia's 12th title of 2024 and their 35th match win in a row; Josemaría and Sánchez's ninth title of the season, which made them certain to end 2024 as world number one. Galán / Chingotto and Guerrero / Bautista lost the men's semi-finals, Brea / González and Ortega / Araujo the women's.
Venue & Location: The Arena Kuwait
The Arena Kuwait stands on the Sixth Ring Road in South Surra (Al Zahra), Hawalli, inside the Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah International Tennis Complex, next to the 360 Kuwait mall. The same complex holds the Rafa Nadal Academy Kuwait, which shared the 2024 P1 with the arena. The FIP lists four indoor competition courts built by MejorSet on a Mondo turf, with the Bullpadel Next Pro as the official ball. Tamdeen Group, the developer behind 360 Kuwait, managed the 2024 edition.
Tournament Details
- Official name: Premier Padel Kuwait Major
- Category: Major (top tier), upgraded from P1 for 2026
- Venue: The Arena Kuwait, four indoor courts
- Prize pool: €1,044,849, equal pay
- Dates: 23 – 31 October 2026, main draw from 25 October
- Edition: second Premier Padel event in Kuwait, first Major
Getting There
- Address: Sixth Ring Road, South Surra (Al Zahra), Hawalli 21816
- By car or taxi: Kuwait has no metro; the arena sits off the Sixth Ring Road next to 360 Kuwait
- Landmark: 360 Kuwait mall and the Rafa Nadal Academy Kuwait
- Timezone: AST (UTC+3), no daylight saving
- Tickets: separate sales for qualifying and the main draw
How to Watch the Kuwait Major 2026
Streaming & TV
Premier Padel YouTube
Free live streaming of qualifying and the early rounds with commentary. No subscription required.
Red Bull TV
Carries Premier Padel from the quarter-finals on Thursday 29 October through to both finals on Saturday, depending on your country.
Kick-off times for the finals
- Kuwait (AST): 16:00, Saturday 31 October
- Madrid, Rome, Paris (CET): 14:00
- London (GMT): 13:00
- Buenos Aires (ART): 10:00
- Earlier rounds: from 12:00 or 14:00 Kuwait time, two hours earlier in Spain
Latest Earnings
Earnings appear here as soon as main-draw results are synced, from Monday 26 October. Check back during and after the tournament for live prize money data.
Go to tournament page →Frequently Asked Questions
When is the Kuwait Major 2026?
The Premier Padel Kuwait Major runs from Friday 23 to Saturday 31 October 2026 at The Arena Kuwait, with qualifying from 23 to 25 October. The men’s first round is played on Sunday 25 October from 14:00, the women’s first round and the men’s round of 32 on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 October, the round of 16 on Wednesday 28 October from 12:00, the quarter-finals on Thursday 29 October from 14:00, the semi-finals on Friday 30 October from 14:00 and both finals on Saturday 31 October from 16:00 Kuwait time (UTC+3), which is 14:00 in Madrid, Rome and Paris.
How much is the Kuwait Major 2026 prize money?
The FIP lists €1,044,849 in total prize money, the same pool as the Italy Major in Rome and the Paris Major. Men and women are paid the same in every round: champions earn €48,000 per player (€96,000 per pair), finalists €24,000, semi-finalists €13,325, quarter-finalists €8,660, round-of-16 losers €5,330 and round-of-32 losers €3,410. The winning pairs also take 2,000 FIP ranking points. When Kuwait was a P1 in 2024, the men’s champions earned €25,500 per player and the women’s €17,000, so this year’s title cheque is 88% bigger for the men and almost three times as big for the women.
Why is Kuwait a Major in 2026?
On 7 May 2026 Premier Padel and the FIP upgraded Kuwait from a P1 to a Major, and Pretoria from a P2 to a P1, for the 2026 season only. The Qatar Major in Doha, scheduled for April, had been postponed over operational disruptions linked to the conflict in the region, and the two upgrades rebalance the prize money and ranking points across the calendar. Kuwait becomes the third Major of 2026 after Rome and Paris; the Mexico Major from 23 to 29 November is the fourth.
Do players pay tax on prize money in Kuwait?
Kuwait has no personal income tax, so nothing is withheld at source: a champion’s €48,000 is paid in full. At the Italy Major in Rome, Italy’s 30% withholding for non-residents took €14,400 from the same cheque, and France withholds 15% (€7,200) at Roland-Garros. Players can still owe tax in their country of residence, but Kuwait is the only Major of 2026 that takes nothing at the source.
Who won the last Premier Padel tournament in Kuwait?
Kuwait last hosted Premier Padel in November 2024, as a P1. Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia beat Franco Stupaczuk and Miguel Yanguas 6-4, 6-2 in 79 minutes for their 12th title of 2024. Paula Josemaría and Ariana Sánchez beat Gemma Triay and Claudia Fernández 7-5, 7-6 after two hours and 12 minutes, the win that made them certain to finish 2024 as world number one. The champions earned €25,500 (men) and €17,000 (women) per player. There was no Premier Padel event in Kuwait in 2025, when the country hosted the first FIP World Cup Pairs instead.
Where is the Kuwait Major 2026 played?
At The Arena Kuwait on the Sixth Ring Road in South Surra (Al Zahra), Hawalli, in the Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah International Tennis Complex next to the 360 Kuwait mall, which is also home to the Rafa Nadal Academy Kuwait. The FIP lists four indoor competition courts built by MejorSet on a Mondo turf, and the Bullpadel Next Pro as the official ball.
Which Kuwaiti players are in the Kuwait Major 2026 draw?
Three Kuwaitis received main-draw wildcards. In the men’s draw Abdulaziz Redha plays with Spain’s Pau Miñano against Enrique Goenaga and Guillermo Collado on Sunday 25 October; the winners meet the 16th seeds, Javier Garrido and Juan Ignacio De Pascual. In the women’s draw Noor Hasan plays with Valeria Atencia against Lorena Vano and Carmen Castillón, and Dalal Al Qenaei with Eugenia Guimet against Natividad López and Aida Martínez. The other two men’s wildcards went to Qatar’s Rashed and Mashari Nawaf and to Pablo Castillo with Egypt’s Youssef Hossam. A first-round win is worth at least €3,410 per player.
Who are the favourites at the Kuwait Major 2026?
In the men’s draw Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia are top seeds with 12 titles in 2026, both Majors among them, €366,700 per player and the Kuwait title of 2024; they won the Milano P1 on 18 October, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 over Juan Lebrón and Leo Augsburger. Alejandro Galán and Federico Chingotto, second seeds with seven titles and €286,700, lost both 2026 Major finals to them and went out in Milan to Lebrón and Augsburger, 6-0, 2-6, 2-6. In the women’s draw Gemma Triay and Delfina Brea lead the race on €204,650 with six titles, the Rome Major among them; Ariana Sánchez and Andrea Ustero, third seeds, won the Paris Major and Milan and beat Triay and Brea 6-1, 6-4 in the Milan semi-final. Both pairs are in the top half of the draw.
How to watch the Kuwait Major 2026?
Premier Padel streams the early rounds free on its YouTube channel, and Red Bull TV carries the tournament from the quarter-finals to the finals, depending on your country. Kuwait is on UTC+3 all year: after Europe’s clocks go back on Sunday 25 October it is two hours ahead of Spain, Italy and France, three hours ahead of the UK and six hours ahead of Argentina. The finals at 16:00 in Kuwait start at 14:00 in Madrid, 13:00 in London and 10:00 in Buenos Aires.
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Live earnings, results and the full prize money breakdown from the third Major of the 2026 season.