Marta Ortega started playing padel at 14 and just two years later made her World Padel Tour debut. She is from Madrid and was born on 14 February 1997. Alongside her playing career, she studied Medicine and trained as a doctor at Gregorio Marañón Hospital. In 2019, aged 22, she became the youngest world number 1 in WPT history. That year she won seven tournaments, several of them with Marta Marrero. She plays on the right side. She is sponsored by Adidas and in 2026 competes with the Cross It Light, a round-shaped racket with aluminised 24K carbon faces and a Soft Energy EVA core.
