Yeah the problem with stats is that counting winners/UE gives you a very limited scope, and at the same time understanding what's happening during every exchange at the pro level is insanely difficult to read for most people. Spanish/Argentinean commentators tend to be good at narrating exchanges pretty well. Tapia does so much work that doesn't end with him smashing the ball x3 or x4, he dominates possessions, and conditions opponents like crazy because they have to constantly try to avoid him. On top of that he's one of the most creative and accurate players in the world so he's extremely unpredictable. Lebron has a very high Padel IQ but he still gets caught out. Tapia's smash was, for his standards, average or worse today, so he limited himself much more to defense and set up. Coello played well but made a lot of mistakes.
Read: mistakes=/= unforced errors.
Coello struggled a lot to play viboras and bandejas that would keep the pressure up and allow them to maintain the net. This lead to Lebron and Leo taking the net a lot more often, even when TC were serving. This doesn't show up in the basic stats but affected the game a lot and resulted in a close 3 set match, which as a fan I was very happy with. But yeah understanding momentum in each point and the importance of ball/stroke management is very hard to see for casual fans. You could see Coello repeatedly apologizing to Agustin, and tons of points where Tapia was basically defending against both opponents because of situations Coello either caused or failed to prevent.
All in all I think Tapia played incredibly well defensively and managed the game extremely solid. Coello was an offensive machine, amazing smashes and recoveries at the net as always, but below his best in other areas.
Leo played a lot better than Belgium, and had all in all a great game, with mistakes still spread across, especially unforced errors and bad decision making, all of which he can still fix and improve in the coming months. And Lebron I thought had a great match, he seems to have found his 'place' with Leo on a personal level, where they're both stubborn and confident. he's playing really smart padel, maybe smarter than a few years ago, defensively still a beast and his smashes are super dangerous. the only thing is that he's past-peak physically, and he's committing mistakes in crucial moments which he never used to in the past.
I think Coello's tendency to almost never use bandejas and not many viboras either is the only thing I could consider a slight weakness in his game overall.
