{"id":297034,"date":"2026-02-25T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/?p=297034"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:34:00","slug":"finland-from-tolito-to-los-javis-stars-take-the-court-in-espoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/2026\/02\/finland-from-tolito-to-los-javis-stars-take-the-court-in-espoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland, from Tolito to &#8220;Los Javis&#8221;: stars take the court in Espoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Tolito Aguirre with Alex Arroyo to Pol Hernandez and Guille Collado, as well as Carolina Orsi, Araceli Martinez, Noa Canovas and Laia Rodriguez. These are some of the stars set to compete at the <strong>FIP Silver ESC Padel<\/strong> in <strong>Espoo<\/strong>, the new Finnish stop on the <strong>CUPRA FIP Tour<\/strong> following last season\u2019s three Bronze events. The tournament will feature many top-ranked players, with 30 men and women from the top 100 in the <strong>ranking FIP<\/strong> among the seeded entries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s draw, <strong>Tolito Aguirre<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Arroyo<\/strong> lead the entry list ahead of the \u201cJavis\u201d \u2014 <strong>Javi Garcia<\/strong> and <strong>Javi Barahona<\/strong> \u2014 two of the most successful players on the CUPRA FIP Tour, with 11 and 10 titles respectively. After their outstanding weekend at the FIP Silver in Dubai, <strong>Pol Hernandez<\/strong> and <strong>Guille Collado<\/strong> (6) are aiming for a second consecutive title. Other contenders include <strong>David Gala<\/strong> and <strong>Pablo Garcia<\/strong> (3), as well as the 2025 CUPRA Finals winners <strong>Jos\u00e9 Jimenez<\/strong> and <strong>Maxi Sanchez Blasco<\/strong> (4).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s tournament also promises strong competition, led by <strong>Carolina Orsi<\/strong> and <strong>Araceli Martinez<\/strong>, returning to the CUPRA FIP Tour following their success at the FIP Silver in Naples last November. <strong>Noa Canovas<\/strong> and <strong>Laia Rodriguez<\/strong> open the lower half of the draw, with challengers including <strong>Leti Manquillo<\/strong> and <strong>Melania Merino<\/strong>, and <strong>Nuria Rodriguez<\/strong> and <strong>Giulia Dal Pozzo<\/strong>. The first round begins on Thursday at 16 with the women\u2019s draw, while the men will not take to the court before 18.30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tolito Aguirre with Alex Arroyo to Pol Hernandez and Guille Collado, as well as Carolina Orsi, Araceli Martinez, Noa Canovas and Laia Rodriguez. These are some of the stars set to compete at the FIP Silver ESC Padel in Espoo, the new Finnish stop on the CUPRA FIP Tour following last season\u2019s three Bronze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":297035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fip-silver"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297037,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297034\/revisions\/297037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}