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Fernando Belasteguín
Fernando Belasteguín, known throughout the sport as "Bela," held the World Padel Tour's world number one ranking from 2002 to 2017 — 16 consecutive years, the longest run atop the rankings in the sport's history — and retired with a record 230 career titles from 286 finals. His partnership with Juan Martín Díaz held the world's top doubles ranking for 13 straight seasons, from 2002 to 2014, winning 170 titles together, and between September 2005 and May 2007 the pair went undefeated for one year and nine months, a streak of 22 consecutive tournament wins. After that partnership ended in 2014, Belasteguín paired with Pablo Lima and held the world number one ranking for a third consecutive season in 2017, closing out a stretch of world number one rankings spanning parts of three different decades with two different partners. His combination of a record 230 career titles and his unmatched 16 years as world number one has made Belasteguín almost universally regarded as the greatest padel player the sport has produced.
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Alejandro Galán
Alejandro Galán and partner Juan Lebrón retained the World Padel Tour's number one doubles ranking for a second consecutive year in 2021, part of a run that's kept the pairing at number one for four straight years, and together they've won 32 World Padel Tour titles plus seven Premier Padel titles since the tour's rebrand. The pair won four Premier Padel titles in the 2022 season alone, a level of single-season dominance that Red Bull's own athlete profile of the duo has specifically singled out as the peak of their partnership to date. Galán's game combines strong defensive court positioning with the ability to transition quickly into net play, a versatile profile that's helped the pairing sustain its ranking against a far deeper competitive field than the one Belasteguín and Díaz faced during their own earlier period of dominance. His combination of a four-year run at world number one and 39 combined World Padel Tour and Premier Padel titles alongside Lebrón has made Galán one of the most significant players in padel's modern professional era.
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