2023 ITF Wheelchair Tour

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

2023 ITF Wheelchair Tour

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Big congrats to Alfie, he beat Gordon 6-1 6-0, a thrashing, and is into the semis.

Andy Lapthorne lost in 3 sets in quads

So Alfie is our last man standing. Good luck as it progresses.

All 4 players are in the doubles which is yet to start for them

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Alfie and Gordon won their doubles opening match to progress to the semis

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Alfie is in good form this week and wins his semifinal at a canter over Fernandez, a player he has had some battles with in the past. His opponent will be second seed, Tokito Oda, also world number 2 and, I think, whoever wins will take (keep) the WR 1 spot for Wimbledon.

Alfie has 3 previous FO titles, lets keep our fingers crossed for a 4th!!

Doubles follow this afternoon and tomorrow, I think the finals will be Saturday although that isnt clear!

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Lucy lost her doubles qf .

Alfie and Gordon to play tomorrow in semifinals , Andy will play the quads doubles semi tomorrow

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 8th of June 2023 03:02:47 PM

Lambda · Challenger level

Eastbourne entry lists

Womens Wheelchair

Name Ranking
Diede de Groot (NED) 1
Jiske Griffioen (NED) 3
Aniek Van Koot (NED) 5
Zhenzhen Zhu (CHN) 6
Lucy Shuker (GBR) 10
Abbie Breakwell (GBR) 35
Ruby Bishop (GBR) 43

Quad wheelchair entry list

Neils Vink (NED) 1
Andy Lapthorne (GBR) 7
Greg Slade (GBR) 15
Alberto Saja (ITA) 28
Gary Cox (GBR) 61

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Lambda wrote:
Eastbourne entry lists

Womens Wheelchair

Name Ranking
Diede de Groot (NED) 1
Jiske Griffioen (NED) 3
Aniek Van Koot (NED) 5
Zhenzhen Zhu (CHN) 6
Lucy Shuker (GBR) 10
Abbie Breakwell (GBR) 35
Ruby Bishop (GBR) 43

Quad wheelchair entry list

Neils Vink (NED) 1
Andy Lapthorne (GBR) 7
Greg Slade (GBR) 15
Alberto Saja (ITA) 28
Gary Cox (GBR) 61

Thanks Lambda - these will be the British Grass Courts Chps, presumably - I think the mens is alongside Queens? Ill need to check !

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The Queens entry list , the mens section of the above British Grass Courts at Eastbourne, has the entry list below

Men's wheelchair entry list

Name
Ranking
Alfie Hewett (GBR)
1
Gustavo Fernandez (ARG)
3
Joachim Gerard (BEL)
4
Ruben Spaargaren (NED)
5
Martin De La Puente (ESP)
7
Gordon Reid (GBR)
9
Stephane Houdet (FRA)
17
Dermot Bailey (GBR)
43

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The womens and quads are publicised as 8 player fields but both lists are short at 7 and 5 respectively, currently. Not sure if these fields will be completed or they will end up with reduced fields, which would be a shame. Presumably we can find some Brits to fill out the draw?

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Well some great results today!!

Alfie and Gordon , as expected, won their doubles semis in the mens, they now play the final again tomorrow

But the excellent news is that Andy Lapthorne and his South African partner, Donald Ramphadi, upset the top seeded pair of Schroder and Vink, winning a 10-6 MTB. That is a big upset in this level of play, upsets dont often happen to be honest.

So we have 3 finals with Brits in !!

Mens singles - Alfie Hewitt (1) versus Tokito Oda (JAP) (2) - World number one on the line

Mens doubles - Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid (1) versus Martin de la Puente (ESP) and Gustavo Fernandez (ARG) (2)

Quad doubles - Andy Lapthorne and Donald Ramphadi (RSA) (unseeded) versus Heath Davidson (AUS) and Robert Shaw (CAN) (2)

Good luck to all 3 Brits tomorrow!

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And the great news is that Alfie is playing on Court Phillippe Chatrier tomorrow, opening the action. What an honour and a big move for wheelchair tennis.

Go Alfie and lets hope Wimbledon follows suit and we see centre Court play for the wheelchair event!

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 9th of June 2023 07:15:26 PM

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Both Alfies singles final and Andys doubles start at 10 am our time. Alfie won the Australian Open in January and US Open in September, so gunning for a third consecutive slam title. Hes won the French 3 times before. Oda is looking to be the youngest ever slam winner.

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Poor start and Alfie is 5-1 down.

Andy and Donald are 4-1 down in the quad doubles final.

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Both lost the first sets 6-1

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Set two for Alfie closer, but still 3-4 down.

Andy and Donald came back well and lead 5-1 second set