Alpine Paris Major 2026
6–13 September · Stade Roland-Garros, Paris · €1,044,849 prize pool · equal pay
Today · First Round (Men's & Women's), jump to bracket →Owner, Padel Earnings
Padel is back at Roland-Garros: six courts inside the stadium, one of them built on Court Philippe-Chatrier, for the biggest pay cheque of the autumn. And unlike almost every other week of the season, the money is split evenly: the women's champions earn exactly what the men's do, €48,000 per player. Seven days earlier at the Madrid P1, the women's winners take home €17,000 against €26,000 for the men. Coello & Tapia and Triay & Brea return as defending champions.
One week in Paris pays more than two P1 titles
A Major champion banks €48,000 per player. A men's P1 champion banks €26,000; a women's P1 champion €17,000. Even a quarter-final exit in Paris (€8,660) pays more than winning a women's P2 (€8,500), which is why Major weeks reshape the season earnings race more than any other event outside the Finals.
Champion
€48,000 per player, men and women alike
Per category
€522,425 of the €1,044,849 pool
The week before
Madrid P1: €26,000 (men) vs €17,000 (women)
Tournament Overview
The Alpine Paris Major 2026 is played from 6 to 13 September 2026 at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris. As one of the season's Majors, the top tier of Premier Padel, it carries €1,044,849 in total prize money, about €522,425 per category, and pays men and women identically at every round: €48,000 per player to the champions.
Padel on Philippe-Chatrier
This is the fifth edition of the Paris Major, and the setting has no equivalent anywhere else on the calendar: six glass-walled courts built inside the home of the French Open, one of them on Court Philippe-Chatrier itself. Run with the French Tennis Federation, the week opened with qualifying on Sunday 6 September, the first men's main-draw matches follow on Monday afternoon, and play then runs day by day to a single finals session on Sunday 13 September from 14:00.
Straight After Madrid
Paris qualifying began on the very day of the Madrid P1 final, the tightest turnaround of the autumn. Galán and Chingotto won the men's title in Madrid on Sunday 6 September against Yanguas and Nieto, and Triay and Brea the women's against Josemaría and González. Both champion pairs arrive in Paris with no rest day, and the reward for surviving the week is the largest single pay cheque between now and the Finals in Barcelona.
What is a Major?
A Major sits at the top of the Premier Padel pyramid. Majors feature:
- €1,044,849 total prize pool, more than double a P1
- Equal prize money for the men's and women's draws, round for round
- The most FIP ranking points on offer outside the season Finals
- The largest draws on tour, with a qualifying phase feeding the main draw
Draw Sizes & Seeds
How the draws are built
Official FIP entry numbers. Both qualifying draws have 16 pairs (15 direct, one wildcard) and send four qualifiers each into the main draw.
- Men's main draw: 48 pairs, 39 direct entries, 4 qualifiers, 2 special exempts, 3 wildcards. Top 16 seeds skip the round of 64.
- Women's main draw: 40 pairs, 32 direct entries, 4 qualifiers, 2 special exempts, 2 wildcards.
Men's seeds (FIP draw, 5 September)
- Tapia / Coello
- Galán / Chingotto
- Augsburger / Lebrón
- Stupaczuk / Sanz
- Yanguas / Nieto
- Di Nenno / Navarro
- Guerrero / Leal
- González / Campagnolo
Seeds 9–16: Bergamini / Garrido, Arce / Tello, Ruiz Granados / García, Alonso / Goñi, Esbrí / Gutiérrez, Jiménez / Arroyo, Jofre / Bautista, Barahona / Sánchez Blasco. The women's seeds will be added once the FIP publishes the women's main draw.
Click any player name to see their career prize money history.
Tournament Bracket
Match results and bracket progression
Today · First Round (Men's & Women's)
Stade Roland-Garros, Paris · All times CEST (UTC+2) · Free live on Premier Padel YouTube
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CEST (UTC+2)
First matches at 12:00 on most days (11:00 on Wednesday), 13:00 for quarter- and semi-finals, finals from 14:00 on Sunday.
Tickets 🎟
From €15
€15 for qualifying day, €25 for the other rounds, via tickets.parispadelmajor.com.
🏆 Finals day
Sun 13 Sep
Men's & women's finals at Roland-Garros, both worth €48,000 per player.
Sun · 6 Sep
Qualifying, round 1
Men’s and women’s qualifying opens at 11:00, 16 pairs per draw, €15 tickets
Mon · 7 Sep
Qualifying final round + men’s first round
Qualifying from 12:00, first men’s round-of-64 matches not before 16:00 on Philippe-Chatrier
Tue · 8 Sep
First round
▶ Today: Men’s and women’s first round from 12:00 CEST, seeds enter the draw
Wed · 9 Sep
Second round
Second round across the six courts from 11:00
Thu · 10 Sep
R16, Round of 16
Men's + women's round of 16 from 12:00 · €5,330 per player already banked
Fri · 11 Sep
QF, Quarter-finals
Men's + women's quarter-finals from 13:00 · €8,660 per player
Sat · 12 Sep
SF, Semi-finals
Men's & women's semi-finals from 13:00 · €13,325 per player
Sun · 13 Sep
Finals
Men's & women's finals from 14:00, €48,000 per player to the champions, free on Premier Padel YouTube
Schedule is provisional and subject to change. Check the official FIP event page closer to the date.
Prize Money Breakdown: Equal Pay, Round for Round
The Paris 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. That is what makes a Major different from the rest of the calendar. The same players were paid on a 53% gap at the Madrid P1 seven days earlier.
| 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. Live earnings appear on the Paris Major 2026 tournament page →
Major champion
€48,000
Men and women, per player
P1 champion (men)
€26,000
Madrid, the week before
P1 champion (women)
€17,000
Same week, 53% less
Read the full picture in our analysis of the padel gender pay gap →
Tax on Prize Money in France: Around 15% Withheld at Source
France applies a withholding of roughly 15% on French-source prize money paid to non-resident athletes, with a player's final liability potentially higher under the progressive system and dependent on any tax treaty with their country of residence. On a €48,000 champion's cheque that is about €7,200 taken at source, noticeably less than the UK bite in London, and far more than the tax-free Gulf stops.
~15%
Base withholding for non-residents
~€7,200
Withheld from a €48,000 title
Treaty-dependent
Final net varies by residency
Compare tax rates at every Premier Padel tournament in our complete tax-by-country guide →
Three storylines at the Paris Major
A title defence, and a final rematch waiting
Coello & Tapia won here in 2025 by beating Galán & Chingotto in the final, the same two pairs that met in the London P1 final in August, where Coello and Tapia won again, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5. Galán and Chingotto arrive as the second seeds straight from winning the Madrid P1 on Sunday, and Paris is where a Major-sized cheque either extends the leaders' advantage or lets it close.
Men's earnings race →The one week the women's draw is paid the same
Triay & Brea defend the title they won in 2025 and lead the season race, but Fernández & Calvo beat them in the London final, and Josemaría & González sit second after losing to Triay and Brea in Sunday's Madrid final. A Major title here is worth almost three women's P1 titles.
Women's earnings race →France's biggest padel week
Padel inside Roland-Garros, on a court laid over Philippe-Chatrier, with tickets from €15: the sport's best shop window in a market growing as fast as any in Europe. Alix Collombon is the highest-ranked French player, with Léa Godallier and Dylan Guichard among the home names in the draw: France holds three men's wildcards, and Thomas Leygue is seeded in qualifying.
See the full prize breakdown ↓Key Players to Watch
Both defending champion pairs are still together and still leading their respective earnings races, and both were beaten at some point this summer by the pairs chasing them.
Men's Draw
Defending Paris champion and 2026 earnings leader with Tapia. Won the London P1 in August, the last event before the break.
Coello's partner and the tour's most inventive attacker. Earned €50,000 for the 2025 Paris title; the 2026 rate is €48,000.
Beaten in the 2025 Paris final and in the London final this August, then won the Madrid P1 on 6 September with Chingotto. Second in the 2026 race, and a Major is the fastest way to close it.
Galán's partner and the best defender in the game; the pair won the Pretoria P1 in August and the Madrid P1 the day Paris qualifying began.
Third in the 2026 race with Augsburger after a Málaga final. A big stage suits him.
Lebrón's partner and one of the breakout earners of 2026.
Women's Draw
Defending Paris champion and 2026 women's earnings leader with Brea, with titles in Málaga, Pretoria and, on 6 September, Madrid.
Triay's partner; the pair earned €50,000 each for the 2025 Paris title, their biggest single cheque of that season.
London champion with Calvo and the form pair of the late summer, after a Pretoria final.
Fernández's partner; a first Major title would be the biggest pay day of her career by a wide margin.
Second in the women's 2026 race with González, and a finalist in Málaga and Madrid.
The highest-ranked French player on tour, inside the world top 40, and the home hope in front of a Roland-Garros crowd.
Venue & Location: Stade Roland-Garros
The Stade Roland-Garros at 2 Avenue Gordon Bennett, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, is the home of the French Open, and for one week in September, of professional padel. Six glass-walled courts are built inside the grounds on synthetic grass, including one installed on Court Philippe-Chatrier, the main show court. The tournament is staged with the French Tennis Federation. The FIP lists the courts as outdoor, built by Mejorset on a Mondo surface.
Tournament Details
- Official name: Alpine Paris Major
- Category: Major (top tier)
- Venue: Stade Roland-Garros, six courts, one on Philippe-Chatrier
- Prize pool: €1,044,849, equal pay
- Dates: 6–13 September 2026
- Edition: fifth Paris Major
Visiting
- Country: France
- Location: 16th arrondissement, Paris
- Timezone: CEST (UTC+2)
- Tickets: from €15 (qualifying), €25 (other rounds)
- First match: 12:00 on most days, finals from 14:00
How to Watch the Paris Major 2026
Streaming Options
Premier Padel YouTube
Free live streaming of main court matches with commentary. No subscription required.
FIP TV
The official International Padel Federation platform, with wider court coverage.
Red Bull TV
Carries Premier Padel in many territories; French viewers should also check local broadcast listings.
Schedule Tips
- Time zone: CEST (UTC+2)
- First matches: 12:00 most days, 11:00 on Wednesday
- Quarter- and semi-finals: from 13:00
- Finals: Sunday 13 September, from 14:00
- Argentina: 5 hours behind Paris
Latest Earnings
Earnings appear here as soon as main-draw results are synced, from Monday 7 September. Check back during and after the tournament for live prize money data.
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