VIDEO: Swiatek and Hurkacz excite at Gdynia charity homecoming with exhibition singles and mixed doubles match
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Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz have emerged as top talents on the WTA and ATP tour with the former in particular being a Grand Slam champion while Hurkacz reached the Wimbledon semi-finals recently.
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Both will not play another tournament before they head to the Olympics to represent Poland but had time to head back to Gdynia ahead of the Poland Open taking part in exhibition matches for charity at the Arka Gdynia tennis club.
This included a singles match and a mixed-doubles exhibition contest both of which were won by the former Roland Garros champion.
They both posed for pictures with the crowd and wrote a message on the camera but Hurkacz was denied any space by Swiatek.
Watch the tie-break between them aired on TVP Sport in Poland below.
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