U.S. juniors win San Diego titles as Cancún team championship approaches

U.S. junior padel has a new set of results to build on before November's continental team championship: Daniil Voit and Pablo Avina won the boys' 18-and-under title in San Diego, while Alejo Kalil and Emiliano Gonzalez took the boys' 16-and-under crown.

The Pan American Junior Circuit Finals brought the regional season to Southern California earlier this month. The next major team event is the FIP Junior America Padel Cup in Cancún, Mexico, November 10–14, giving the American program a quick transition from circuit competition to national-team play.

Two different routes to gold

Voit and Avina defeated Colombia's Simon Del Río and Pablo Lemus 7–6, 4–6, 7–6 in the oldest boys' final at Padel N9NE, according to USA Padel's October 14 report. The match lasted more than two hours and reversed their defeat against Colombian opposition in Veracruz.

Kalil and Gonzalez beat Rodrigo Hernández and Jacob Segura, also of Colombia, 6–2, 6–4 for the 16-and-under title. In the younger boys' division, Santiago De la Torre and Sebastian Hernandez finished runners-up to Mexico's Marco Diaz and Carlos Acosta. Ariana Sagrera and Olivia Gherardi reached the girls' 16-and-under final, losing to Mexico's Emma Treviño and Renata Preciado.

Those results describe progress across several age groups, rather than a breakthrough confined to a single pair. They also identify different competitive tasks: repeating a win against a familiar opponent, surviving a deciding set and converting a semifinal run into a title.

Miami supplied another American winner

The San Diego performances followed an American girls' title on the FIP Promises Tour. Emma Cantu and Roberta Berlanga won the under-18 event at Padel X in Miami, recovering to defeat Brazil's Karine Peluso Tirloni and Ana Peluso Tirloni 2–6, 6–4, 10–0, as recorded in FIP's September 29 results.

The last number is a deciding match tiebreak, rather than a conventional set score. Miami's event and the Pan American circuit are separate competitions; neither result alone establishes selection for Cancún.

Cancún puts the emphasis on national teams

FIP's October 19 host announcement confirms boys' and girls' competition at under-14, under-16 and under-18 levels. The event completes the Americas' part of a season featuring Junior Continental Cups across four continents for the first time.

The federation's continental competition plan also gives these championships a qualifying role for the 2027 Junior World Cup. The sporting stakes therefore extend beyond the November trophies.