Agustín Tapia

Darío Agustín Tapia Nievas (born 24 July 1999), known as Agustín Tapia, is an Argentine professional padel player. He currently holds the number 1 position in the FIP ranking, is right-handed, and plays on the backhand side alongside Arturo Coello. Together, they form the current number one ranked padel pair in Premier Padel.

Despite his young age, he has played with some of the best players in history, such as Juan Martín Díaz, Fernando Belasteguín, and Pablo Lima, eventually becoming world number 1 by winning the 2023 Vigo Open with Coello. They repeated the feat in the 2024 and 2025 Premier Padel editions, padel main circuit.

He is known in the world of padel as "El Mozart de Catamarca" (The Mozart of Catamarca).

Padel Career Agustín Tapia began his career on the World Padel Tour in 2018, starting with Marcello Jardim as his partner. At the Catalunya Master, held in March of that year, he already began to stand out, reaching the quarterfinals.

2019 Midway through the 2019 season, after months of speculation,Fernando Belasteguín became his new sporting partner. The partnership had one of the largest age differences in the circuit, with a 20 years difference between the two players. They debuted in the Mijas Open, exiting in the round of 16. On September 2019 they surprised winning the Madrid Master, their second tournament together and Tapia's first title, at only 20 years of age. During the tournament, they defeated the No. 2 ranked team Paquito Navarro and Juan Lebrón in the round of 16, Franco Stupaczuk and Matí Díaz in the quarterfinals, Javier Ruiz and Uri Botello in the semifinals, and defeated the No. 1 ranked Sanyo Gutiérrez and Maxi Sánchez in the final.

They reached the next four tournaments semifinals, but were unable to reach another final. They were defeated by Alejandro Galán and Pablo Lima in the Portugal Master, by Sanyo Gutiérrez and Maxi Sánchez in the Menorca Open, and by Paquito Navarro and Juan Lebrón at both Córdoba and São Paulo Open's. At the Mexico Open, the last tournament before the Master Finals, they were unexpectedly eliminated in the round of 16. At the Master Finals, they defeated the new No. 1 ranked team, Lebrón and Paquito, in the semifinals, but lost in the final against Galán and Lima. They ended the season ranked fourth as a pair, with Belasteguín finishing seventh in the individual Ranking.

2020

Belasteguín and Tapia continued together in 2020, starting as the No. 5 ranked pair due to other players changing partner, and forming new teams. The season was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and only had 11 tournaments. They began the new season, losing in the quarter-finals of the Marbella Master, shortly before the circuit was suspended. After a three-month hiatus, they returned to competition in the Madrid Open, again losing in the quarterfinals. In the third tournament of the season, also in Madrid, the Argentine duo reached the final, where they lost to the No. 1 ranked team, Galán and Lebrón. They had two more quarter-final exits in the Adeslas Madrid and Valencia Open's.

In the only international tournament of the season, the Sardinia Open, Belasteguín and Tapia won their second title together, defeating Javier Ruiz and Uri Botello in the final. In next four tournaments, they reached the final of the Menorca Open, but once again were defeated by Franco Stupaczuk and Sanyo Gutiérrez, followed by a semifinal loss in the Master Barcelona, a withdrawal from the Alicante Open due to contracting COVID-19, and a quarterfinal exit in the Las Rozas Open.

They entered the Master Finals as the No. 3 ranked team. Before their quarter-final match, Belasteguín and Tapia announced in an emotional video that the tournament would be their last together. They went on to defeat Gutiérrez and Stupaczuk in the semifinals and then overcame the No. 1 ranked Galán and Lebrón, 6–3, 7–6 in the final, which concluded with a 24-point tie-break. With the win, Belasteguín became the oldest Master Final champion, with 41 years, while Tapia became the youngest, at 21 years.

They finished the season ranked second as a pair, with both ranked third individually.

2021 Pablo Lima, who partnered Tapia for most of the 2021 season. In 2021, Pablo Lima became his new partner, and although they managed to win titles at the Las Rozas Open and the Málaga Open, in September 2021 they decided to split up as a pair after playing the Lugo Open. A few days later it was confirmed that Sanyo Gutiérrez would be his new partner for the remainder of the season. Together they won a tournament before the end of the year, the Malmö Open, after defeating the number 2 seeds, Paquito Navarro and Martín Di Nenno, in the final by 7–5 and 6–0.

2022 In 2022, Tapia continued playing alongside Sanyo throughout the year. Their first half of the season was very successful; they reached at least the semifinals in the first 13 tournaments (up to September) and won 5 of them, which propelled them to the second-place and brought them significantly closer to the number 1 pair, Galán and Lebrón, in the rankings. However, they were unable to maintain their level of play during the final months of competition; they only advanced beyond the quarterfinals in 2 of the last 9 WPT tournaments of the year. They ultimately finished as the number 2 ranked pair with over 10,000 points each, and after the Barcelona Master Final, they officially announced their split. Before the end of the year, confirming the rumors of recent weeks, Tapia announced that his new partner for 2023 would be the even younger Arturo Coello. This union generated a certain impact on padel fans, as many of them considered that this young duo had enough potential to achieve the number 1 ranking and thus break the 3-year hegemony of Galán and Lebrón in world padel.

2023 Arturo Coello, who has partnered Tapia for the last four season, finishing as the number one ranked in three of them. In the 2023 season, Tapia and Coello started the year in the best possible way, defeating Galán and Lebrón in two sets at the finals of the Abu Dhabi Master, demonstrating their ability to challenge for the number one ranking that year. Next, they won the La Rioja Open tournament in Argentina, beating the young pair of Augsburguer and Libaak in the final. They continued their strong performance, at the third World Padel Tour event of 2023, the Chile Open, Tapia and Coello once again claimed the title, defeating Lebrón and Galán in a 3-sets final, in a match marred by controversial refereeing decisions in the second set. In the next three tournaments (Paraguay Open, Granada Open and Brussels Open) they faced Franco Stupaczuk and Martín Di Nenno in the final, winning the three and closing the gap to the number one place in the ranking.

On 14th May, Coello and Tapia faced Galán and Lebrón in the Vigo Open final, winning 6–3 / 6–7 / 7–6 and becoming the number one ranked team in the circuit. They missed the following tournament but upon returning won the Vienna Open and the Marbella Master. After missing the France Open they reached the final of the Valladolid Master, losing the first match of the season in WPT, to Stupaczuk and Di Nenno. In the second half of the season, Coello and Tapia only reached four finals in the reamining eleven tournaments, winning the Málaga and México Open's. Still they finished the season ranked first.

In Premier Padel, they won four of the six tournaments held during the season, winning the Italy and Paris Major's and the Madrid and Mendoza P1's.

2024 In the 2024 season, now with Premier Padel as the main circuit, Tapia and Coello started the year losing to Galán and Lebrón in three sets at the finals of the Riyadh P1. They recovered winning the next three tournaments, but followed it with two P2 finals losses in Brussels and Seville, to Galán and Fede Chingotto. In the final eight tournaments before the summer break, the Golden Boys competed in six of them reaching the final in all of them, facing Galán and Fede Chingotto in all of them, but only winning three.

After the summer stoppage, they reached the final of eight of the nine tournaments, winning them all and finishing the season as the first ranked pair. In the Barcelona Tour Finals, the last tournament of the season, Coello and Tapia reached the finals but lost in three seasons to Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz.

2025 The 2025 season started like the previous one, with Tapia and Coello reaching the finals of the Riyadh P1, against Franco Stupaczuk and Lebrón, winning three sets. They missed the Gijón and Cancún P2's, but returned in the Miami P1 losing in the semi-finals to Stupaczuk and Lebrón. In the Santiago P1 in Chile, they were surprisingly knocked out in the round of 16 by the 9th ranked pair, Pablo Cardona and Leandro Augsburger. They reacted winning the next two tournaments, but again surprisingly eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Asunción P2. They bounced back reaching the last six finals before the summer break, playing five times against Galán and Chingotto and once against Stupaczuk and Lebrón, winning five of those finals.

In the first tournament after the break, the Madrid P1, they reached the final but were defeated by Leandro Augsburger and Martín Di Nenno. In the following four tournaments both Coello–Tapia and Galán–Chingotto the finals, with each team winning two tournaments. After missing the NewGiza P2, they won the Dubai P1 and the Mexico Major, finishing first ranked for the third consecutive year. In the Tour Finals, they once again met Galán and Chingotto in the finals, winning 6–7, 6–3 and 7–6.

Honours World Padel Tour (2019–2023)

Finals

Premier Padel

Finals

Padel World Championship

Teammates Agustín Tapia has played with 6 different teammates. Marcello Jardim (01/2018 – 12/2018) Juan Martín Díaz (01/2019 – 08/2019) Fernando Belasteguín (08/2019 – 12/2020) Pablo Lima (01/2021 – 09/2021) Sanyo Gutiérrez (09/2021 – 12/2022) Arturo Coello (01/2023 – present)