Alvaro Montiel Caruso

Alvaro Montiel Caruso is a professional padel player from Italy, aged 21, standing 1.80 metres tall. Born on 4 February 2005 in Italy, he plays on the backhand side and is currently ranked 64. He partners Daniel Santigosa Sastre.

Álvaro Montiel Caruso was born in Barcelona and raised around the game: his father, Gonzalo Montiel, was a professional player turned coach, and his parents owned a padel club where he started at four or five. He played football alongside padel until committing fully at nine, with his father as his main coach, and later settled in Turin. In 2024 he said he dreamed of becoming number one, or at least top ten.

An early marker was beating Maxime Joris and Bastien Blanqué at the FIP Rise in Bandol with Marco Cassetta. In 2026 he teamed with Flavio Abbate, and the pair won two FIP Bronze titles in Cyprus in April and the FIP Silver Cyprus I in May.

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