2022 ITF Wheelchair Tour

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RE: 2022 ITF Wheelchair Tour

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lucy lost her opening round in 3 sets

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Alfie Hewett won his last 8 match comfortably, but Gordon Reid was upset and lost to the young Japanese, Oda. Reid was 4th seed.

So just Andy Lapthorne and ALfie left in singles now

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As CD points out elsewhere, Alfie and Andy both crashed out today breadsticks and bagels respectively . Just doubles left now.

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Bad day, Lucy also out of doubles, Andy went out of doubles as well. Just leaves Alfie and Gordon in the mens doubles as our only wheelchair players left.

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Alfie and Gordon into mens doubles final. Can they keep their remarkable run going

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Congrats to Alfie and Gordon who win their final, 7-6(5) 7-6(5)

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Coup Droit wrote:
Congrats to Alfie and Gordon who win their final, 7-6(5) 7-6(5)

Well done indeed! Thats something like the last 10 slams or something like that - dominating the format !

Jan · Hall of fame

Brilliant!!!!!

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This week is the big Super Series event , The French Riviera Open, which is played at the Mouratagolu Academy near Nice.

It is a big field - the Super Series events in some ways are tougher than the 4 Slams, they have 32 draw singles versus 8 or 12 in Slams - and on Clay, still. The grass season starts next week across Queens, Birmingham and Eastbourne before Wimbledon for the wheelchair players.

In terms of Brits - we have Gordon Reid in mens, Lucy Shuker and Cornelia Oosthuizen in womens, and Andy Lapthorne in quads. No Alfie Hewett this week and as a result Gordon is seeded 3. Presumably Alfie is getting ready to play Queens next week.

www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/french-riviera-open/fra/2022/wc-itfss-fra-01a-2022/

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Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne are still left in singles here, Andy is also in quads doubles and Lucy and Cornelia are in womens doubles action still.

www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/french-riviera-open/fra/2022/wc-itfss-fra-01a-2022/

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The prizemoney for Wimbledon is impressive. Given these are 8 player events in singles, there is £160k per wheelchair event with £51k for the winner. If someone like Alfie could win singles and doubles, he could win £62k in total.

www.wimbledon.com/pdf/The_Championships_2022_Prize_Money.pdf

That is quite tidy.

I would love to know how much the top players can earn a season, there is an elite group, the top 10, and the Slams are pretty much a closed shop to the top 10 or fewer players. I imagine someone like Alfie could win a couple of hundred K a year in prizemoney, plus endorsements. A nice living and good luck to them!

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Recent results on clay and of course at RG mean that Alfie has lost his number one singles spot this week to Japanese Kunieda. Alfie is now down to number 2 . In doubles, Alfie swaps places with partner Gordon Reid and goes to number one.

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In the British Grass Court events this week, Alfie lost his semi and so no British singles finalist in the mens at Queens.

In Birmingham, the quads had a 3 man field of all Brits in a round Robin ,
Andy Lapthorne plays James Shaw to decide the title.

Women play at Eastbourne next week.

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All the British women lost in the first round in Eastbourne.

Not been a good event for Brits, sadly.