2023 ITF Wheelchair Tour

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

2023 ITF Wheelchair Tour

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Well done to Andy Lapthorne, winning the all GB British Grasscourt Quad event, winning his matches 6-0 6-0 and 6-2 6-0

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

At Wimbledon , we have 8 singles entries and 4 doubles pairs (same 8 singles players) in each format.

Our British players will be:

Mens - Alfie Hewett , seeded 2, and Gordon Reid (wild card). Alfie and Gordon will be doubles top seeds
Womens - Lucy Shuker (wild card)
Quad - Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade (Greg will be a wildcard).

Alfie in singles and Alfie and Gordon in doubles are our main hopes, and Andy in quad doubles with Donald Ramphadi, assuming they are partnering each other after winning in France.

Play starts July 12th.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 2nd of July 2023 08:14:36 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The year ending Masters event this year, equivalent of the ATP or WTA Tour Finals, is in Barcelona end October and is on clay.

They do a good job of moving round the Masters to different places (USA year before last, Netherlands last year, Spain this year) and also on different surfaces (outdoor hard in USA, indoor hard in Netherlands, clay in Barcelona), sometimes I would like to see the main tours try to do this as well.

Wimbledon draws should be out tomorrow, Tuesday.

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www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/wimbledon/gbr/2023/wc-itfgs-gbr-01a-2023/

Draws out

Mens - Alfie second seed, Gordon also plays, they are top seeds together in doubles

Womens - Lucy plays, with Van Koot in doubles, unseeded in both events

Quad - Andy and Greg Slade play, both also in doubles, Andy with Donald Ramphadi who he won RG with, Greg with David Wagner. Again, both unseeded.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 11th of July 2023 03:16:32 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

All singles matches play today , 4 in each of three courts. All 5 Brits in action. Alfie will be expected to win, Gordon will have a chance, unlikely to see Lucy, Andy or Greg win but you never know.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Gordon won, well done to him; Andy and Lucy both lost, Greg is currently playing and a set down.

Alfie to come

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Alfie won and so we have Alfie versus de la Puente and Gordon versus top ranked Oda in the semis on Friday.

Tomorrow is all doubles, at the semis stage, with the five Brits all playing- Alfie and Gordon are playing on court 1 tomorrow in their doubles, after the two mens doubles semis.

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Andy and Greg both lose their quad doubles so that is the quad events all done for.

Jan · Hall of fame

Alfie and Gordon win the first set. Such exciting play!!!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jan wrote:
Alfie and Gordon win the first set. Such exciting play!!!

And they win in 2 sets - well done.

alfie and Gordon play their singles semis tomorrow his semifinal

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 13th of July 2023 10:03:59 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Alfie in court one tomorrow for his singles semi with the Spaniard, de la puente, at 11 and then his doubles final with Gordon follows after that.

Gordon is on court 3 at 11 against Oda, the world number one.

The doubles final , which follows those semis, is Alfie and Gordon against Oda and Miki, two Japanese.

Winning the singles here gets you a gross £60k.

Jan · Hall of fame

Alfie won his SF

Sadly Gordon couldn't make it an all-British final.

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First title of the fortnight as Alfie and Gordon take the mens doubles title

Jan · Hall of fame

What a fabulous match!!!!
Watching both doubles at once!
Well done Alfie and Gordon