The ETTU 2026 CCB Europe Top 16 Cup will bring together the continent’s crème de la crème from 5 to 8 February in the picturesque Swiss town of Montreux.
In both the women’s and men’s events, fourteen players qualify directly through the ETTU Rankings, while eight additional players in each category will compete for the final two available places. The seeding list is based on the December ETTU Rankings, with Sweden’s Truls MOREGARD leading the men’s field and Germany’s Sabine WINTER heading the women’s draw.
Truls MOREGARD returns to Montreux as one of the standout figures of the modern era. He has already reached the final of the Europe Top 16 Cup twice, in 2022 and 2024, and advanced to the semifinals last year. His career achievements include two silver medals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in both the singles and team events. At the European Championships, MOREGARD won team gold in Malmö in 2023, claimed silver in doubles in Linz in 2024, secured bronze medals with the Swedish team in Nantes in 2019 and Cluj-Napoca in 2021, and added a bronze medal in singles at the 2024 Championships in Linz. His World Championship record features a bronze medal in singles in Doha in 2025, a silver medal in singles in Houston in 2021, and a bronze medal in the team event in Halmstad in 2018. He also captured a silver medal with the Swedish team at the 2023 European Games in Kraków–Małopolska.
The reigning CCB Europe Top 16 Cup champion, Alexis LEBRUN, enters the tournament as the second seed. He also reached the semifinals in 2024 and played a key role in France’s bronze-medal finish at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In 2025, in Zadar, Alexis was part of the French team that captured the European title alongside his brother Felix LEBRUN. He is also the reigning European champion in both singles and doubles, having claimed the doubles title with Felix in 2024. The LEBRUN brothers previously stood on the podium together with bronze medals in doubles at the 2022 European Championships in Munich and in the team event at the 2023 Championships in Malmö. Alexis further strengthened his international résumé with a silver medal at the 2024 World Championships in Busan in the team event and a bronze medal in doubles at the 2025 World Championships in Doha.
Felix LEBRUN, in addition to his team and doubles success, secured an Olympic bronze medal in singles at Paris 2024 and captured gold at the 2023 European Games in Poland.
Slovenia’s Darko JORGIC, seeded fifth, is one of the most dominant players of the competition, having won the CCB Europe Top 16 Cup three consecutive times in 2022, 2023 and 2024, while finishing runner-up in 2020 and 2025. His major titles also include a silver medal in singles at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, as well as bronze medals with the Slovenian team at the European Championships in 2015 and 2017.
Germany’s top-ranked representative, Benedikt DUDA, seeded sixth, claimed the silver medal in singles at the 2024 European Championships in Linz. He has also been an integral part of Germany’s highly successful teams, contributing to gold medals at the European Championships in Nantes in 2019 and Cluj-Napoca in 2021, a silver medal in Malmö in 2023, and a bronze medal at the 2025 Championships in Zadar.
Just below him in the seeding list is compatriot Patrick FRANZISKA, the winner of the Europe Top 16 Cup in Thessaloniki in 2012. FRANZISKA reached the semifinals of the competition last year and previously in 2022. He claimed bronze in singles at the 2018 European Championships in Alicante, while enjoying remarkable team success with Germany, standing atop the podium at the European Championships four times in 2013, 2017, 2019 and 2021. With the German team, he also won silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and two silver medals at the World Championships in Tokyo and Halmstad.
The German presence continues with Dang QIU, runner-up in Montreux in 2023. The 2022 European singles champion from Munich also owns a European Championships gold medal in mixed doubles from Warsaw in 2020. At the 2023 European Games, he reached the top step of the podium in both the mixed doubles and team events.
Five-time Europe Top 16 Cup winner Dimitrij OVTCHAROV, who lifted the trophy in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019, brings an extraordinary list of accolades to Montreux. Over the course of his illustrious career, he has collected ten European Championship gold medals since 2007, including two singles titles in 2013 and 2015 and eight team titles. OVTCHAROV is also the European Games singles champion from 2015 and a team champion at the Games in 2019 and 2023. At the Olympic Games, he won bronze medals in singles in London 2012 and Tokyo 2020, silver medals in the team event in Beijing and Tokyo, and team bronze medals in London and Rio.
The second Swedish representative, Anton KALLBERG, has built much of his success in team competitions. He was a member of the Swedish team that claimed silver at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, won team gold at the European Championships in Malmö, and collected bronze medals in the team event in 2019 and 2021. In 2024, in Linz, he also finished runner-up in doubles.
Denmark’s Anders LIND was part of the Danish team that secured a bronze medal at the 2021 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca.
France’s Simon GAUZY, silver medalist in singles at the 2016 European Championships, was a member of the French team that captured European gold in Zadar in 2025. He also won bronze medals in the team event at the European Championships in 2015, 2017 and 2019. At the Olympic Games in Paris, GAUZY helped France to bronze, while in the same year he claimed silver at the World Championships in the team event. His European Games record includes silver in Baku in 2015 and bronze in Kraków in 2023.
Another Danish representative, Jonathan GROTH, seeded twelfth, reached the semifinals of the Europe Top 16 Cup in 2018. He was runner-up in singles at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, claimed gold in doubles at the 2016 European Championships, and finished runner-up in doubles at the 2010 European Championships in Ostrava.
Portugal’s Marcos FREITAS lifted the Europe Top 16 Cup trophy in 2014 in Lausanne, finished runner-up in 2015 and 2021, and reached the semifinals in Montreux in 2024. His European Championship successes include gold in doubles in 2011 and gold with the Portuguese team in 2014, as well as silver medals in singles in 2015 and in the team event in 2017 and 2019. He has also collected four bronze medals, including one in Warsaw in 2020 and another with the team in Malmö in 2023.
The players who need to go through the qualifications are: Alvaro ROBLES of Spain, Andrej GACINA of Croatia, Milosz REDZIMSKI of Poland, Tomislav PUCAR of Croatia, Kristian KARLSSON of Sweden, Joao GERALDO of Portugal and Pedro OSIRO of Switzerland.
