Arturo Coello

Arturo Coello Manso (born 8 March 2002), known as Arturo Coello, is a professional Spanish padel forehand player. He currently holds the number 1 position in the FIP ranking, with his current partner Agustín Tapia. Together, they form the current number one ranked padel pair in Premier Padel.

Arturo won his first tournaments as a professional alongside Fernando Belasteguín in the World Padel Tour 2022, before joining Agustín Tapia and becoming number 1 ranked team in the World Padel Tour 2023 edition, a feat they repeated in Premier Padel in 2024 and 2025.

Padel Career First years Arturo Coello began his career in the World Padel Tour in 2017 alongside Alberto Rea, but it wasn't until 2019 that he began to climb the rankings. In 2019 he played with Pincho Fernández, Fran Ramírez Navas and Guga Vázquez.

2020-2021 In 2020 he played with Iván Ramírez, while in 2021 he started the season with Miguel Lamperti. In July 2021 they separated as a couple, with Javi Ruiz becoming his new partner.

With Javi Ruiz, he reached the semi-finals of the Málaga Open, after defeating the world number 1s, Alejandro Galán and Juan Lebrón. In September, Coello was forced to play with Alejandro Arroyo at the Barcelona Master and the Lugo Open, due to an injury to Javi Ruiz, achieving a surprising semi-final in the second. Once both tournaments were over, the separation of Javi Ruiz and Coello as a pair was confirmed, with Fernando Belasteguín becoming his new partner.

With five tournaments remaining, Belasteguín announced that Arturo Coello would be his next partner. They made their debut as the sixth seeded team, in the Menorca Open, being eliminated in the round of 32. In the Córdoba Open, Belasteguín and Coello faced Belasteguín's last two partners, Sanyo and Tapia, in the quarter-finals, advancing to the semi-finals where they lost to Paquito Navarro and Martín Di Nenno.

They finished the season with quarter-final exits in the Córdoba and Malmö Open's, and a round of 16 elimination at the Mexico Open. In the Barcelona Master Final, Belasteguín and Coello lost to Navarro and Di Nenno in the quarter-finals. Despite not winning a title and Belasteguín finishing the season ranked 9th individually, the results were satisfactying enough to continue together one more season.

In November 2021, he was called up to the Spanish national team for the 2021 Padel World Championship, which Spain won. Coello played in one of the final matches, where he and Alejandro Galán secured the victory.

2022 Fernando Belasteguín, who partnered Coello for one and half seasons. Belasteguín and Coello started 2022, ranked seventh as a team, with them gradually improving their position during the year. They started the season winning the Miami Open. However, in the next three tournaments, they suffered a round of 16 loss and two quarter-final losses. They competed in the inaugural Premier Padel tournament, the Doha Major, reaching the quarter-finals. They improved their results reaching the Brussels Open and Premier Padel's Italy Major semi-finals, but in the next two tournaments, they were again defeated in the quarter-finals.

At the Vienna Open, Belasteguín and Coello reached the semi-finals, but were defeated by the number one ranked, Alejandro Galán and Juan Lebrón. In the French Open, they only managed to reach the quarter-finals, but in the following tournament, the Valladolid Master, they advanced to the final, were they were defeated by Galán and Lebrón. In the next two World Padel Tour tournaments, Belasteguín and Coello were eliminated in the quarter-finals in the first and suffered an unexpected first-round exit in the second. Between both events, they competed in the Premier Padel Paris Major, reaching the quarter-finals.

During the World Padel Tour summers break, Bela and Díaz competed in Premier Padel tournaments, reaching the quarter-finals of Madrid P1 and the final of the Mendoza P1. They returned to World Padel Tour, competing in the Cascais and Swedish Open's, reaching the semi-finals in both tournaments.

In the last third of the season, Belasteguín and Coello improved their performances. They won the Madrid Master, defeating the top ranked team, Alejandro Galán and Juan Lebrón in the semi-finals, and won the Amsterdam Open, after defeating Franco Stupaczuk and Pablo Lima in the final. Bela and Coello also reached the final of the Santander Open, but were defeated by Paquito Navarro and Martín Di Nenno. In the next two tournaments, they reached the semi-finals of the first and suffered an unexpected round of 16 elimination of the second. They reached their seventh final of the season in the Buenos Aires Master, where they were defeated by Galán and Lebrón, who had also eliminated them in the semi-finals of Premier Padel New Giza P1. Before the Buenos Aires Master, Belasteguín represented Argentina and won the World Championship.

Before the Barcelona Master Final they competed in two Premier Padel tournaments, winning the Mexico Major, defeating Franco Stupaczuk and Pablo Lima in the final, and reaching the semi-finals of the Milan P1. At the Master Final, Belasteguín and Coello were eliminated in the quarter-finals, finishing the season as the third-ranked team, slightly behind the second-ranked, Sanyo Gutiérrez and Agustín Tapia.

2023 Augustin Tapia , who has partnered Coello 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, becoming the number one ranked team in the circuit and at 21 years, 2 months and 21 days, becoming the youngest player in history to reach number 1. 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 (2022-present)

Finals

Padel World Championship

Teammates Alberto Rea (2017) Pincho Fernández (2019) Fran Ramírez Navas (2019) Guga Vázquez (2019) Iván Ramírez (01/2020 – 12/2020) Miguel Lamperti (01/2021 – 07/2021) Javi Ruiz (07/2021 – 09/2021) Fernando Belasteguín (09/2021 – 12/2022) Agustín Tapia (01/2023 – present)