Great Britain’s Lucy Shuker, Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne have all qualified to take part in the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Loughborough next month – the season finale to the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis World Tour. The International Tennis Federation’s season-ending championship for the world’s top wheelchair singles players will be hosted once
Gordon Reid, Alfie Hewett and Lucy Shuker all play on Arthur Ashe Stadium when the 10th US Open Wheelchair Tennis Competition gets underway later today in New York, with former champion Andy Lapthorne completing the full complement of Brits in action on the opening day when he contests the first of his three quad singles
Great Britain’s Lucy Shuker partnered Stephane Houdet of France to claim the 2017 British Open Mixed Doubles title, but there was disappointment for fellow Brits Alfie Hewett and Andy Lapthorne as they lost out in the men’s and quad singles finals respectively. On the other side of the net to Shuker in the mixed doubles
While all eight seeds are through to Thursday’s men’s singles quarter-finals, all four top seeds have booked their places in the women’s singles semi-finals. British interest in the women’s singles came to an end with world No. 7 Lucy Shuker’s 6-1, 7-6(3) loss to German third seed and former champion Sabine Ellerbrock. Shuker battled hard
British No.1 Lucy Shuker and local favourite James Shaw both came through tough three set matches on Tuesday’s opening day of the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Nottingham, to reach the quarter-finals of the women’s singles and quad singles respectively. Meanwhile, among the British success it was a big day for rising young star
Wimbledon champions and Rio Paralympic medallists among British Open Wheelchair Tennis entries. Britain’s Wimbledon champions Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett are among 24 world top 10 ranked players across the men’s, women’s and quad events who are part of another stellar field for the 2017 British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships, which takes place at Nottingham
Great Britain’s Jordanne Whiley won a record-equalling tenth Grand Slam title in claiming the Ladies’ Wheelchair Doubles crown on the final day of play at Wimbledon alongside Japanese partner Yui Kamiji. Whiley’s win caps a successful tournament for wheelchair tennis in this country following the Men’s Doubles victory by Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid on
Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley both begin their doubles campaigns on Friday after bowing out of the ladies’ singles on Thursday. Shuker kept pace with Japan’s world No.1 Yui Kamiji early in their ladies’ singles quarter-final before Kamiji broke in the sixth game and the Australian Open and Roland Garros champion went on to record
British No.1 and world No.7 Lucy Shuker (pictured above), singles semi-finalist at the Australian Open in January, begins her ninth Wimbledon with a ladies’ singles match-up against current world No.1 Yui Kamiji of Japan. Shuker is one of four Brits on the Tennis Foundation’s Wheelchair Tennis World Class Programme playing at the third Grand Slam
A groundbreaking development in the wheelchair tennis calendar will become a reality next month following the announcement of a new grass court tournament to take place at Surbiton from 6th – 8th July. The invitational tournament is being organised by the Tennis Foundation, Great Britain’s leading tennis charity, and is seen as the first step
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