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), and he is currently the active player with the most tournament wins.
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.
Partnership with Juan Martín Díaz 2019 In 2019, Tapia became the new partner of 14-time world number one Juan Martín Díaz. In their first tournament together, they were eliminated in the Round of 16 by three-time world number ones and future partners of Tapia, Fernando Belasteguín & Pablo Lima. However, they would play only three more tournaments together due to an injury Díaz sustained at the Buenos Aires Master, with Tapia playing the subsequent three tournaments alongside different temporary partners.
Partnership with Fernando Belasteguín Midway through the 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, however in their second tournament together, the Madrid Master, they defeated all the top teams on their road to the title, beating the No. 2 ranked team Juan Lebrón & Paquito Navarro in the round of 16, and the No. 1 rankeds Maxi Sánchez & Sanyo Gutiérrez in the final, with Tapia claiming its first professional title, at only 20 years of age.
They would also reach the next four tournaments semifinals, but were unable to progress in any of them. At the Mexico Open, the last tournament before the year-ending Master Final, they were unexpectedly eliminated in the round of 16. At the Master Finals, they defeated the newly crowned No. 1 ranked team, Lebrón & Paquito, in the semifinals, but lost in the final against Alejandro Galán & Lima, ending the season ranked fourth as a pair.
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 Estrella Damm Open, again losing in the quarterfinals. In the third tournament of the season, also in Madrid, the Argentine duo reached the final, but lost to the No. 1 ranked team, Galán & Lebrón.
After two quarter-final exits in the following two Open's, in the sixth tournament of the season, and the only international tournament of the year, the Sardinia Open , Belasteguín and Tapia won their second title together, defeating Javier Ruiz & Uri Botello in the final. In next four tournaments, they reached one more the final, in the Menorca Open, but were once again defeated by Franco Stupaczuk & Sanyo Gutiérrez.
They entered the Master Final 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 & Stupaczuk in the semifinals and then overcame the No. 1 rankeds Galán & 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.
Partnership with Pablo Lima 2021
In 2021, Tapia teamed up with three-time world number one Pablo Lima. They reached the semifinals in their first tournament together but failed to repeat the feat in the following event, suffering a surprise quarterfinal exit at the hands of Arturo Coello & Miguel Lamperti. After a semifinal appearance and an early exit in the round of 16 in the next two tournaments, Lima and Tapia reached their first final in the fifth tournament of the year, the Marbella Master, where they were defeated by the world number ones, Galán & Lebrón.
After two early exits in subsequent tournaments, the Argentine-Brazilian duo reached their second final at the Las Rozas Open, having defeated Galán & Lebrón in the semifinals, where they beat the second-ranked pair, Fernando Belasteguín & Sanyo Gutiérrez, to claim their first trophy of 2021. They went on to win another title at the following tournament, the Malaga Open, by defeating Martín Di Nenno & Paquito Navarro. However, the results following the summer break were not as positive, reaching only one semifinal across four tournaments, leading Tapia to decide to end his partnership with Lima.
Partnership with Sanyo Gutiérrez 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 Swedish Open, after defeating the number 2 seeds, Martín Di Nenno & Paquito Navarro, in the final by 7–5 and 6–0.
2022
In 2022, Tapia continued playing alongside Sanyo throughout the year. The pair began the season being eliminated in the Miami Open semifinals but bounced back to win the Reus Open, defeating Galán & Lebrón in the finals. However, the world number ones avenged the loss by eliminating them in the semifinals of the Vigo, Alicante, and Brussels Open's.
Next came a victory at the Danish Open, followed by a semifinal loss to the top-ranked pair in Marbella, a defeat they avenged in the Vienna Open final. At the French Open, they lost again in the semifinals to Galán & Lebrón, as well as in the Valladolid Master semifinals to Arturo Coello & Belasteguin. However, they headed into the summer break with wins in Valencia (against the world number ones) and Málaga, and a 3–5 record against their main rivals, allowing them to rise to the number two spot and significantly close the gap on the top-ranked pair in the rankings.
Nevertheless, they were unable to maintain their level of play during the final months of the competition, advancing past the quarterfinals in only two of the last nine World Padel Tour tournaments of the year. Even so, they finished as the number two ranked pair, with over 10,000 points each, and officially announced their split following the Master Final.
In 2022, Tapia also made his debut on the new Premier Padel circuit. His best performance came at the Mexico Major, where he reached the final alongside Sanyo but lost in three sets to Belasteguín & Coello.
Partnership with Arturo Coello 2023
In 2023, Tapia joined forces with Arturo Coello with the goal of dethroning Galán and Lebrón to claim the number one ranking spot. They started the year in the best possible way, defeating the world numbers ones 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 were eliminated by Franco Stupaczuk & Martín Di Nenno, who would be their main rival during the season, in the semifinals of Premier Padel's Qatar Major but reacted in the best possible way, winning the La Rioja Open in Argentina, beating the young pair of Augsburguer & Libaak in the final, and mantaining their invincibility in WPT. They continued their strong run, at the next World Padel Tour event, the Chile Open, winning their third title of the year, after defeating Galán & Lebrón in a 3-sets final, in a match marred by controversial refereeing decisions in the second set. In the next three tournaments, the Paraguay, Granada and Brussels Open's, they faced Franco Stupaczuk & Martín Di Nenno in the finals, winning the three and closing the gap to the first ranking spot.
On 14th May, Coello and Tapia faced Alejandro Galán & Juan Lebrón in the Vigo Open final, winning 6–3 / 6–7 / 7–6, claiming their seventh title of the year, becoming the number one ranked team in the circuit and at 21 years, 2 months and 21 days, Coello became the youngest player in history to reach number 1. They missed the following tournament but upon returning won the Vienna Open, beating once again Di Nenno & Stupaczuk, and the Marbella Master clinching their nine consecutive WPT title of the season. After missing the French Open due to physical issues, the new world number ones reached the finals of the Valladolid Master, where they lost their first WPT match of the season to Franco Stupaczuk & Martín Di Nenno, thereby ending a 46 match winning streak. At the following tournament in Valencia, Coello and Tapia suffered their first pre-final defeat, being eliminated in the semifinals by Galán & Jon Sanz, but went on to win the last WPT tournament before the summer break in Málaga, heading into the summer break with ten out of a possible fourteen World Padel Tour titles.
During the break, they played three Premier Padel tournaments, the Italy Major and the Madrid and Mendoza P1s, winning all of them. The return to WPT events began with a surprising Round of 16 loss at the Finland Open against Lucas Bergamini and Victor Ruiz, but was followed by a fourth Premier Padel trophy of the season: the Paris Major, played at Stade Roland Garros. The worst stretch of the season for both came in the following five tournaments, where they managed to reach only two finals, losing in Madrid Master to Di Nenno & Stupaczuk, and in Menorca Open to Galán and a returning Lebrón.
However, by winning the Mexico Open, the penultimate tournament on the WPT calendar, Coello and Tapia mathematically secured the year-end number one spot in the WPT rankings. In the final two events of the year, the Premier Padel Milan P1 and the Master Finals, which marked the last-ever tournament in World Padel Tour history, they would only reach the semifinals in both; nevertheless, the combined results from WPT and Premier tournaments allowed Coello and Tapia to claim 15 titles out of 28 events played, setting a record for the most titles won in a single season.
2024
In 2024, following the conflict between WPT and Premier Padel/FIP, which led the FIP to disregard 2023 World Padel Tour tournaments for ranking purposes, and with Premier Padel now established as the premier circuit, Coello and Tapia began the year as the world's number two pair, despite having finished the previous year in the top spot. In the first tournament of the season, the Riyadh P1, they would reach the finals where they faced and lost to Galán & Lebrón in three sets.