Esbjerg, Vives-Joris and Santos-Garcia the top seeds

Leading the men’s seeding at the new stop of the CUPRA FIP Tour in Denmark, the FIP Bronze Skechers West Coast Masters in Esbjerg, is the French pair Manuel Vives and Maxime Joris (finalist at the FIP Gold Dubai in February), ranked 282 and 180 in the FIP ranking. On the other side of the draw are Jairo Guerrero (188) and Alejandro Calvo (221).

Plenty of talent also in the women’s draw, led by Catarina Santos (world number 92, winner of the FIP Silver Metepec and the FIP Bronze Curitiba) and Aimee Gibson (85, reigning champion of the FIP Silver Melbourne). On the other side of the draw are Patri Araus (world number 122 and winner of two FIP Bronze events in Indonesia this year) and Carla Fitó (world number 103 and finalist last week at the FIP Silver Aguascalientes).