Partner and ranking changes
In the women's category, the three pairs that finished 2023 with the highest rankings remained together for 2024. Due to the conflict between the WPT and Premier Padel/FIP, which led FIP to disregard World Padel Tour tournaments held in 2023 for ranking purposes, the ranking restructuring resulted in Bea González and Delfina Brea (who had finished 2023 as the number 3 pair) starting the new season as the number 2 pair, while the reverse occurred for Gemma Triay and Marta Ortega, who began as the number 3 pair. Closing the top four, Alejandra Salazar and Sofia Araújo parted ways, with Salazar and Tamara Icardo becoming the new fourth-ranked pair.
In the men's category, the top three ranked pairs also chose to stay together for 2024. However, as in the women's category, the exclusion of points earned in WPT tournaments led to changes in the rankings. Despite speculation about a split between Alejandro Galán and Juan Lebrón, the Spaniards, who had finished the 2023 as the No. 3 pair, opted to start the season together and, due to the ranking changes, claimed the number one spot, while Arturo Coello and Agustín Tapia, who had finished as world number ones, took second place. Rounding out the top four, Paquito Navarro and Sanyo Gutiérrez, who challenged for the number one ranking in 2016 and 2017, joined forces for a second stint as a pair.
First tournaments of the season
March
In both the men's and women's divisions, the top-ranked pairs continued their strong form from the end of the previous year and won the season's first tournament by defeating the number-two seeds.
The season's first changes would come in the subsequent tournaments. After Riyadh, Gemma Triay and Marta Ortega parted ways, with Gemma teaming up with Cláudia Fernandéz and Ortega joining forces with Veronica Virseda. Meanwhile, Galán and Lebrón would split up following a controversial match in which they were eliminated by Javi Garrido and Mike Yanguas, who went on to make a surprise run to the Qatar Major final. Galán chose Federico Chingotto as his new partner, while Lebrón reunited with Paquito Navarro, with whom he had held the world number one spot in 2019.
Meanwhile, Coello and Tapia would go on to win the season's second and third tournaments, the latter against Galán and Lebrón in the final, during their "Last Dance." As for Ariana and Paula, they won the second tournament, but having sat out the third one, they saw Claudia Jensen and Jessica Castelló take the title in Acapulco.
April–May
The next four tournaments were dominated by Bea and Delfina, who won all four, defeating the world number ones in Seville and the number threes in Brussels and Asunción. In the men's division, Coello and Tapia missed out on a final for the only time that season (in tournaments they entered) when they were eliminated in the semifinals by Galán and Chingotto, who went on to win the Seville P2. The matchup would be repetead in Puerto Cabello, Brussels, and Asunción, with the world number ones winning the first and last of these, while "ChinGalán" won in Brussels.
The same matchup would be repeated in Mar del Plata and Santiago de Chile, with the number twos winning in Argentina and the number ones winning in Chile. In the women's division, Ariana and Paula returned to winning ways at the Mar del Plata P1, preventing Bea and Delfina from achieving a fifth consecutive title, while Claudia Fernández and Gemma Triay won their first title as a pair in Santiago. With the victory, Claudia became the youngest player ever to win a professional padel tournament, at 18 years, 3 months and 4 days.
June–July
In the season's tenth tournament, the top four men's pairs— Coello/Tapia, Chingotto/Galán, Lebrón/Paquito, and Di Nenno/Stupaczuk— opted not to participate, while three of the top four women's pairs —Josemaria/Sánchez, Brea/Gonzalez, and Salazar/Icardo— did the same. Consequently, the ninth-ranked duo of Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz became the first pair outside the top two to win a title, while Claudia and Gemma claimed their second consecutive tournament victory.
In the remaining tournaments of the first half of the season, there were no surprises on the men's side with the "Super Clásico" being played in Rome, Genoa, and Málaga. Chingotto and Galán won both tournaments in Italy, with a dominant performance in Rome, while Coello and Tapia won the Málaga P1 to close out the first half of the season with a 4–4 record against "ChinGálan" in finals and six titles to their name, matching Galán's tally (with Chingotto having five). The Genoa P2 semifinals also featured one of the most highly anticipated clashes, with the tie between Galán and Lebrón, with Galán coming out on top.
On the women's side, the world number ones Ari and Paula also won two tournaments, in Rome and Málaga (defeating Cláudia and Gemma in the latter's final), but failed to secure a third, suffering a surprise loss in Genoa to Marta Ortega and Sofia Araújo, who were playing their first tournament as a team. With this victory, Sofia claimed her first professional title at the highest level. With their win in Malága, Ariana and Paula tied the twins Mapi and Majo as the pair with the most tournament wins in padel history, with 32 titles.
Final part of the season
On the men's side, there were changes for the final part of the season. Franco Stupaczuk and Martín Di Nenno ended their partnership, with Di Nenno becoming the new partner of Juan Lebrón, who also parted ways with Paquito Navarro after just eight tournaments together, while Stupaczuk teamed up with Mike Yanguas.
August
With both Coello/Tapia and Chingotto/Galán not competing in Nokia, Lebrón and Di Nenno claimed their first title as a team, Lebrón's 39th, while in the women's side Ariana and Paula secured their 33rd, becoming the most successful women's pair in the history of padel.
September–October
In September, the dominance of the top two men's pairs continued, with the two teams facing each other in Rotterdam, Valladolid, and Paris, however, the world number ones reigned supreme, as Coello and Tapia won all three tournaments. In Paris, Galán and Lebrón faced each other again, with Galán coming out on top for the second time. On the women's side, the top two pairs also met in the finals, with Ariana and Paula extending their record by winning in Rotterdam, while Cláudia and Gemma triumphed in Valladolid. Ariana and Paula also went on to win the Paris Major as well.
Just as in Bordeaux and Nokia, four of the top five men's pairs opted not to compete in the season's nineteenth tournament in Giza, with Ariana and Paula also sitting it out. Franco Stupaczuk and Mike Yanguas won the tournament, marking the third time in 2024 that a pair not including Coello, Tapia, or Galán won a men's tournament, while on the women's side, Marta Ortega and Sofia Araujo secured their second title together.
November–December
In the following four tournaments, Coello and Tapia continued their dominant form, winning the tournaments in Dubai, Kuwait, Mexico, and Milan. This brought them to their ninth consecutive title, and fourteenth overall, marking a season with just six losses in 99 matches. After the summer break, they had a 45-match winning streak, and with the victory in Mexico, they mathematically secured the year-end world number one ranking for the second consecutive season. The biggest surprise came with their rivals Chingotto and Galán, who, after being eliminated in the semifinals of Kuwait and Mexico by Franco Stupaczuk and Mike Yanguas, failed to reach the finals for the first time. Since forming their partnership at Puerto Cabello P2, 'ChinGalán' had reached 14 consecutive finals, surpassing the record of 12 finals set by Fernando Belasteguín and Pablo Lima in 2016.
In the women's division, however, the competition was more open. While Bea González and Delfina Brea won in Dubai, Bea's first tournament back after injury, Ariana Sánchez and Paula Josemaría secured their 36th title as a pair in Kuwait (their ninth of 2024). This mathematically guaranteed them the year-end world number one ranking, tying them with the Fernando Belasteguín and Pablo Lima duo as the second most successful partnership of all time. Meanwhile, in Mexico and Milan, Cláudia and Gemma continued their strong form by winning both tournaments.
In Milan, Fernando Belasteguín played the last tournament of his career. In the final tournament of the year, the Premier Padel Finals, Claudia Fernández and Gemma Triay aimed to equal their 6–6 record against the number 1 seed before splitting as a pair. However, Ariana and Paula would win to finish the year with their tenth trophy. In the men's category, Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz reached the final, where they ended the win streak of Agustín Tapia and Arturo Coello to claim the final title of the season.
Agustín Tapia
Arturo Coello
