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 partner Agustín Tapia, forming the current number one ranked padel pair in padel main circuit, Premier Padel.
Arturo won his first tournaments as a professional alongside Fernando Belasteguín in the 2022 World Padel Tour, before joining Agustín Tapia and becoming number 1 ranked team in the circuit next edition 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.
Different partners 2020–2021
In 2020 he played with Iván Ramírez, while in 2021 he started the season with Miguel Lamperti. In their first tournament together, the Madrid Open, they eliminated Martín Di Nenno & Paquito Navarro (the world number 4 pair) and surprisingly reached the semifinals, where they were defeated by the number 2 pair, Fernando Belasteguín & Sanyo Gutiérrez. They repeated the feat at the following tournament by eliminating the number 3 ranked pair, Agustín Tapia & Pablo Lima, although, once again, they failed to reach the finals. In the five next tournaments, they did not reach the quarterfinals on any occasion, and in July they chose to end their partnership, 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 & 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.
Partnership with Fernando Belasteguín 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 & Martín Di Nenno.
They finished the season with quarter-final exits in the Swedish Open and Buenos Aires Master, and a round of 16 elimination at the Mexico Open. In the Master Final, Belasteguín and Coello finished the season with a loss to Di Nenno & Paquito 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
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 were defeated before the semifinals each time. They then competed in the inaugural Premier Padel tournament, the Qatar Major, reaching the quarter-finals, and improved their results reaching the Brussels Open and Premier Padel's Italy Major semi-finals.
In the following four tournaments, they would reach the semifinals only once, in Vienna, where they were defeated by the world number ones. The rematch would come in the Valladolid Master, where they advanced to the final, but were again defeated by Galán & Lebrón. In the five tournaments leading to the summer break, they suffered an unexpected first-round defeat at the Málaga Open and reached three more quarterfinals, however, their best performance camed at the Mendoza P1, where they lost in the finals a third-set tiebreak to Franco Stupaczuk & Pablo Lima.
Belasteguín and Coello performances would improve in the last third of the season, starting in the return to World Padel Tour, by reaching the semi-finals in both the Portugal and Swedish Open's. Next they won the Madrid Master, defeating the top ranked team, Alejandro Galán & Juan Lebrón in the semi-finals, and won the Amsterdam Open, after defeating Franco Stupaczuk & Pablo Lima in the final. They would also reach the final of the Santander Open, but were defeated by Martín Di Nenno & Paquito Navarro. They would reach their seventh final of the season two tournaments later in the Buenos Aires Master, where they were defeated by Galán & Lebrón, who had also eliminated them in the semi-finals of Premier Padel's NewGiza P1.
Before the Master Final they competed in two Premier Padel tournaments, winning the Mexico Major, by defeating their future partners Agustín Tapia & Sanyo Gutiérrez in the finals, 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 & Tapia.
Partnership with Agustín Tapia 2023
In 2023, Coello joined forces with Agustín Tapia 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 maintaining 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.
They recovered winning the Qatar Major dropping only two games in the final, winning the Acapulco P1 after beating Galán & Lebrón in their last match together at the finals, and defeating Federico Chingotto & Galán to win the Puerto Cabello P2. In the next two tournaments, they would lose twice to Chingotto & Galán, first in the Brussels final and then in the semifinals of the Seville P2, which would turn out to be the only tournament of the season where they failed to reach the final. In the six remaining tournaments leading up to the summer break, Coello and Tapia faced 'ChinGalán' in every final; they won the Asunción P2 and the Santiago and Málaga P1s, but lost the Mar del Plata P1, the Genoa P2, and the Italy Major, heading into the break with a 4–5 head-to-head record (4–4 in finals) against their rivals.
Coello and Tapia returned from the summer break unstoppable, facing Chingotto & Galán four times in the span of a month and defeating them on every occasion to win the Madrid and Rotterdam P1s, the Valladolid P2, and the Paris Major, thus reaching their 25th title in just 46 tournaments played and 33 finals contested. After not competing in the season's nineteenth tournament in Egypt, they reached four more finals during the second half of November and the first half of December, winning all of them to claim the Dubai, Kuwait, and Milan P1's, as well as the Mexico Major. By winning the tournament in Mexico, they mathematically secured finishing the season as the world number ones in the ranking, and with their victory in Milan, they claimed their ninth consecutive title and extended their winning streak to 45 straight matches.
Thus, the 'Golden Boys' headed into the Premier Padel Finals having won 14 of the 20 Premier Padel circuit tournaments they had entered, reaching every final except the one in Seville, and closing the regular season with a record of 93 wins in 99 matches. They reached the final of the season's last event but were surprisingly defeated in three sets by Coki Nieto & Jon Sanz.
2025