Five draws, five champions, and a US Senior National Team player in every final. The FIP Beyond B3 Greenoak Open wrapped up Sunday at Padel X in Miami, and the whole field now has its first FIP Beyond ranking points on the board.
Jose De Armas and Juan Arraya delivered on their billing in the men’s 45+. Nancy Dingwall and Mariana Talarico went unbeaten in the women’s 50+, and Annica Cooper and Sophie Cousins did the same in the 40+. Natalia De Biasi and Amela Hadziosmanovic took out the top seeds to claim the 45+ title, and British pair Sally Fisher and Julie Bradbury turned a 50+ final loss into the 55+ crown.
Men’s 45+: The headline pair delivered
Top seeds Jose De Armas and Juan Arraya, the US 45+ pairing at last month’s Senior World Cup, won the title without dropping a set. After a first-round bye, they beat Alex O’Brien and Nalle Grinda 6-2, 6-1 in the semifinals.
Withdrawals cleared the bottom half for No. 2 seeds Rudi Kalil and Claudio Risco. The final was the champions’ toughest test. De Armas and Arraya took the first set 6-4, then held their nerve through a second-set tie-break to win 6-4, 7-6.
Women’s 40+: Cooper and Cousins perfected
The 40+ was played as a four-pair round robin, and Annica Cooper and Sophie Cousins won every set they played. They beat top seeds Karen Hazzard and Lucie Wade, Marieline Grinda and Dorothy Zerbst, and Susie Azoulay and Natalie Gill. That first-set tie-break was the closest they came to trouble all weekend.
Grinda and Zerbst finished second at 2-1, beating Azoulay and Gill and getting past Hazzard and Wade by walkover. Hazzard and Wade’s only win came against Azoulay and Gill, who had taken the first set 7-5 before Gill was injured at 3-2 in the second and the British pair had to retire.
The final was a rematch, and Cooper and Cousins won it 7-5, 6-2 to finish 4-0 with eight sets won. Cooper also reached the 45+ semifinals, making her one of the busiest players of the weekend.
Women’s 45+: De Biasi and Hadziosmanovic went the distance
The draw packed with national-team names produced the weekend’s biggest upset. Unseeded Natalia De Biasi and Amela Hadziosmanovic beat Susie Azoulay and Kristen Kepler, then came from a set down to stop top seeds Annica Cooper and Marieline Grinda 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Both seeds went out in the semifinals. Ana Magrini and Laura Gaviria Halaby, who opened with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 comeback against Elizabeth Escobar Subirats and Sabrina Quintana, ended the run of No. 2 seeds Kimberly Wattrick and Andi Neugarten.
The all-American final was the only one of the five to go three sets. De Biasi and Hadziosmanovic took the first 6-2, Magrini and Gaviria Halaby levelled in a tie-break, but De Biasi and Hadziosmanovic closed it out 7-5 in the third.
Women’s 50+: Dingwall and Talarico dominated
No pair controlled the draw like Nancy Dingwall and Mariana Talarico. The World Cup 50+ teammates won all four matches without dropping a set, conceding just 12 games across eight sets.
In the round robin, they beat Lucie Wade and Vivien Linehan, Sally Fisher and Julie Bradbury, and Michelle Kalsi and Lauren Aaron. Fisher and Bradbury finished second at 2-1, beating Wade and Linehan and Kalsi and Aaron. Wade and Linehan took third with a win over Kalsi and Aaron.
The final was another rematch, and the result stayed the same. Dingwall and Talarico won it 6-2, 6-2.
Women’s 55+: Fisher and Bradbury bounced back
Beaten in the 50+ final, Sally Fisher and Julie Bradbury made no mistake in the 55+. The No. 2 seeds came from a set down to beat Kristen Kepler and Karyn Kobe Kobayashi in the semifinals. Kepler and Kobayashi had also recovered from a set down in their opener against Vivien Linehan and Michelle Kalsi.
In the top half, Ana Magrini and Karina Tenenbaum beat Kari Yerg and Bins Latham, then knocked out top seeds Andi Neugarten and Jennifer Demsey.
Fisher and Bradbury won the final 6-3, 6-4. For Magrini, it was a second runner-up finish of the weekend, and a second semifinal win over Neugarten, whom she had also beaten in the 45+.
How the storylines played out
World Cup silver shines in Miami. Less than a month after Buenos Aires, US Senior World Cup players won four of the five titles. Dingwall and Talarico, Cooper, De Biasi, De Armas and Arraya all leave Miami as champions.
Double duty, double results. Ana Magrini was the weekend’s iron woman, winning four matches and reaching both the 45+ and 55+ finals. Annica Cooper won the 40+ and made the 45+ semifinals, while Andi Neugarten reached the semifinals of both her draws.
Results at a glance
Champions
Men’s 45+: Jose De Armas / Juan Arraya
Women’s 40+: Annica Cooper / Sophie Cousins
Women’s 45+: Natalia De Biasi / Amela Hadziosmanovic
Women’s 50+: Nancy Dingwall / Mariana Talarico
Women’s 55+: Sally Fisher / Julie Bradbury
Full draws and results are on the official FIP event page.