Halfway through 2026, the padel season looks VERY different from what we predicted. Chingalan’s No. 1 hopes, LeBurger’s ceiling, surprise teams, disappointments, breakups… and the biggest questions are still unanswered.
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Welcome to Padel Pulse Podcast Season 2 Episode 18, our full 2026 Mid Season Recap.
With Premier Padel returning in Madrid, Yousef, Ismaeel, and Haroon look back at everything that has happened so far, revisit some takes that aged beautifully and others that aged terribly, and make our biggest predictions for the second half of the season.
Who has given us the best story of 2026?
Who has surprised us the most?
Who has been the biggest disappointment?
And most importantly… what happens next?
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:37 Best story so far this season?
9:30 Most surprising team/player?
13:47 Most disappointing team/player?
22:25 Revisiting our biggest predictions
27:15 Most exciting part of 2nd half of the season
30:59 Who will finish as World Number 4?
34:26 Will the race for world no. 1 be decided in Barcelona or before?
36:46 What’s your biggest prediction for the second half of the season?
38:33 Who wins Madrid P1?
🏆 BEST STORY OF 2026 SO FAR
Every season has the teams that win the most.
But sometimes the best story has nothing to do with who is World No. 1.
We pick the player or team whose journey has made the first half of 2026 special.
🤯 BIGGEST SURPRISE
Which player or partnership completely exceeded expectations?
Was it a young team exploding onto the scene? A veteran resurgence? Or a partnership nobody expected to become a genuine threat?
📉 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
There were some HUGE expectations coming into 2026.
Not everyone delivered.
We debate which player or team has fallen furthest below what we expected before the season started.
🔮 REVISITING OUR BIGGEST PREDICTIONS
Time to pull out the receipts.
Chingalan will finish World No. 1.
How are we feeling about that one now?
LeBurger will challenge Coello and Tapia more than anyone else.
Have Juan Lebrón and Leo Augsburger actually lived up to that expectation?
Sanyo and Gonza will make the Barcelona Masters Final.
We revisit one of the wildest predictions from before the season.
👀 WHAT ARE WE MOST EXCITED FOR?
New partnerships. Young players emerging. The World No. 1 race. World Cup selections. And potentially another transfer window full of chaos.
What is THE storyline we cannot wait to watch during the second half of 2026?
⚔️ WHO FINISHES WORLD NO. 4?
This race could get fascinating.
Stupa and Sanz vs Yanguas and Nieto vs Guerrero and Leal
Which partnership finishes the season as the fourth best team in the world?
👑 WHEN WILL WORLD NO. 1 BE DECIDED?
Does the fight between Coello and Tapia and Chingotto and Galán survive all the way to the Barcelona Finals?
Or will one team have already killed the race before we even get there?
👇 Drop one second half prediction in the comments so we can come back to it at the end of the season.
🇪🇸 WHO YA GOT: MADRID P1
The break is over.
Premier Padel is back.
We finish with our men’s and women’s picks for Madrid P1.
👇 JOIN THE DEBATE
Who has been your biggest surprise of 2026?
Who has disappointed you most?
And who finishes the year as World No. 1?
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