Ahead of ‘National School Sport Week at Home’ this Monday 22nd June, the LTA have announced that double Paralympic medallist Lucy Shuker has been appointed ‘National School Sport Champion’ for tennis. In partnership with children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust, Lucy will join a group of international athletes from other sports such as cricket, football
Lucy Shuker will open her women’s singles campaign against Dutch defending champion Diede de Groot, while Andy Lapthorne plays former champion David Wagner of the USA in his first of three quad singles round-robin matches. Reigning US Open champion Alfie Hewett faces a rematch of September’s men’s singles final in New York against world No.
Thirteen world top 10-ranked players, including two former tournament champions and two current World Champions, feature among a star-studded line-up for the 2018 Bath Indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament, which takes place from 6-10 November at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Forty three players from 16 different countries, including a host of top Brits,
British No.1 Lucy Shuker had a tournament to remember at Wimbledon but missed out on winning what would have been her first ever Grand Slam title. Sunday’s final saw Shuker contest her first Grand Slam final for five years, partnering Germany’s Sabine Ellerbrock in the Ladies Doubles final. After successive straight sets semi-final defeats over
A fine last day of competition for players on the Tennis Foundation’s Wheelchair Tennis World Class Programme saw British No.1 Lucy Shuker partner Diede de Groot of the Netherlands to win the women’s doubles title. From 5-2 down in the third and deciding set of the final the second seeds launched a stirring comeback to
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
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
World No.1 Gordon Reid begins his Australian Open men’s singles title defence against Joachim Gerard of Belgium in a rematch of last year’s final when the first wheelchair tennis Grand Slam of 2017 gets underway at Melbourne Park on Wednesday. With four Brits on the Tennis Foundation’s Wheelchair Tennis World Class Programme lining up for
Earlier this week I was privileged to have the opportunity to interview Lucy Shuker. For anyone who doesn’t know, Lucy is an British wheelchair tennis player, ranked #7 in the world at singles and #8 in the world in doubles. Lucy’s life changed forever in 2001 when, just 12 days after getting her motorbike licence she
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