A revenge, a childhood dream, a springboard: that’s how Bea, Martina and Marina earned their spot at the Finals

We remember it well: a year ago, Bea Gonzalez’s tears on the bench of the Allianz Cloud in Milan. An injury – the umpteenth one of 2024 – had forced her to retire in the final of the last P1 of the season, and deep down she knew that this physical problem would also prevent her from playing the Qatar Airways Premier Padel Finals. One year later, those tears and those words (“This has been mentally the toughest year of my career”) have turned into smiles and joy. Because from Thursday, Bea González will be at the Palau Sant Jordi, arriving just days after winning the first Major of her life in Acapulco: her fifth title of the season with Claudia Fernández, after Asunción, Málaga, Madrid, and Dubai. Bea and Claudia have been the only two players in 2025 who managed to challenge the dominance of Delfi Brea and Gemma Triay, and of Paula Josemaría and Ari Sánchez, and they will try to do the same in Barcelona, in a tournament that will feature two other debutants, each with a very different story.

Wonderful is that one of Martina Calvo, who celebrated her first-ever qualification for the Finals at just 17 by posting on her social media a photo of herself as a child, sitting in a basket of balls: “If someone told the Martina in the photo that she would play the Finals, she wouldn’t have believed it—neither that Martina nor the one from the beginning of this year. My main goal this season was to improve as an athlete so I could compete against the best. I knew that to achieve it I had to train and take care of myself as I have done, regardless of whether the results came or not. As a result, next week I will enjoy this great reward. I value it deeply and I’m aware of how hard it is to achieve it, which is why I will enjoy it to the fullest”. She will enjoy it alongside a padel legend like Alejandra Salazar, after starting the season with Aranzazu Osoro.

Marina Guinart will also play the Premier Padel Finals for the first time, although these will not be the first Finals of her life. A year ago, in fact, Guinart played and won the CUPRA FIP Finals in Bourg-en-Bresse, paired with Victoria Iglesias. The CUPRA FIP Tour as a springboard toward unexplored heights: a statement that also applies to the 29-year-old from Castellar del Vallès, a town in Catalonia, the same region hosting the Finals. And Marina, who won the FIP Euro Padel Cup with the Spanish national team, just like Calvo, and whose best Premier Padel result in 2025 has been the semifinal at the Rome Major, has put two tickets to the Palau Sant Jordi up for grabs for her debut match on Thursday against Brea and Triay. Considering that the weekend is already sold out, it’s a prize almost as precious as stepping onto the court itself.