After the acceptance lists closed on 14 July, a real wave of withdrawals swept through the tournament. More than half of the original names disappeared from the field, both among boys and girls. Their places were taken by players from the alternate lists, which means the acceptance lists now look completely different than they did just yesterday.<\/p>\n
In the boys\u2019 tournament, the most important thing remains unchanged: two Poles are still at the very top of the field \u2014 Aleksander Blus (ITF 74) and Tymon Litwic (ITF 88). Behind them, however, there has been plenty of movement. Among those who withdrew are last year\u2019s finalist Michael Savano (USA, 113), as well as Eric Mueller (Germany, 95) and Dominik Vagner (Czech Republic, 125). The biggest effect of the reshuffle? A true red-and-white surge: the number of Polish players in the field has increased from four to as many as sixteen. The boys\u2019 tournament will therefore have a much more \u201chome\u201d feel.<\/p>\n
The changes in the girls\u2019 field are even greater. The entire previous top section of the list has dropped out, including the former leading players Lujza Beviz (Hungary) and Veronika Sekerkova, as well as a strong group of Czech players. The highest-ranked player now is Denmark\u2019s Caroline Hermanns (ITF 169), followed by Sara Oliveriusova (Czech Republic, 190). The red-and-white presence has become even stronger here as well: the number of Polish girls has jumped from two to fifteen. Among them is Anna Skorupska \u2014 last year\u2019s Grand Prix doubles champion.<\/p>\n
The jubilee 50th edition is therefore taking on a clearly more home-grown character, and fans in Poznan will have many more reasons to cheer for the red and white. The current full acceptance lists for both girls and boys are available in the Players section. Only a few days remain until the first balls are struck!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Po zamkni\u0119ciu list startowych 14 lipca przez turniej przetoczy\u0142a si\u0119 prawdziwa fala wycofa\u0144. Z pierwotnej stawki znikn\u0119\u0142a ponad po\u0142owa nazwisk, zar\u00f3wno w\u015br\u00f3d ch\u0142opc\u00f3w, jak i dziewcz\u0105t. Ich miejsca zaj\u0119li zawodnicy z listy rezerwowej (alternates), przez co listy startowe wygl\u0105daj\u0105 dzi\u015b zupe\u0142nie inaczej ni\u017c jeszcze wczoraj. W turnieju ch\u0142opc\u00f3w najwa\u017cniejsze pozosta\u0142o bez zmian: na czele ca\u0142ej<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28168,"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28166\/revisions\/28168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpwfibaka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}