2024 ITF Wheelchair Tour

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

2024 ITF Wheelchair Tour

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

In the French tournie this week, Ben Bartram reached the mens doubles final, but had to concede a walkover.

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Ben Bartram has a Wimbledon wild card. One more mens to be announced. Not using the womens and quad wildcard slots this year.

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The Wimbledon entries for the wheelchair events are confirmed as:

Quad - Andy Lapthorne ( 6th in an 8 player field)

Womens - Lucy Shuker (14th in an 16 player field)

Mens - Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Ben Bartram (1, 5 and 15 in a 16 player field) - 1 mens singles wild card yet to be announced; suspect they will see how the Eastbourne event goes - the following 4 are playing Eastbourne and arent in Wimbledon

Daniel Caverzaschi (ESP) 15
Dahnon Ward (GBR) 25
Jasiak Geoffrey (FRA) 27
Andrew Penney (GBR) 36 (WC)

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Eastbourne starts tomorrow for the wheelchair players and draw should be out today.

Meanwhile, the entry list for next weeks British Open at Roehampton is out

Men's main draw

Player Ranking
Alfie Hewett (GBR)

1
Tokito Oda (JPN)

2
Gustavo Fernandez (ARG)

3
Martin De La Puente (ESP)

4
Gordon Reid (GBR)

plus other Brits in a 16 player field:

15
Ben Bartram (GBR)

24
Dahnon Ward (GBR)

25 (WC)
Andrew Penney (GBR)

Women's main draw

Brits in a 16 player field Lucy Shuker (GBR) and Abbie Breakwell (GBR)

Quad main draw

Andy Lapthorne (GBR) and Greg Slade (GBR) in an 8 player field

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 26th of June 2024 07:38:00 AM

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Eastbourne draws are out:

Mens singles - R1/QF

Alfie v Gordon (!)

Dahnon Ward v Ben Bartram

Andrew Penney - v Asif Abbasi

Womens - R1/QF

Abbie Breakwell v Dana Mathewson

Lucy v Maylee Phelps

Quad singles - R1/QF

Andy Lapthorne v Daniel Escobar

Gary Cox v Ahmet Kaplan

Greg Slade v Heath Davidson

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JonH comes home wrote:
Eastbourne draws are out:

Mens singles - R1/QF

Alfie v Gordon (!)

Dahnon Ward v Ben Bartram

Andrew Penney - v Asif Abbasi

Womens - R1/QF

Abbie Breakwell v Dana Mathewson

Lucy v Maylee Phelps

Quad singles - R1/QF

Andy Lapthorne v Daniel Escobar

Gary Cox v Ahmet Kaplan

Greg Slade v Heath Davidson

Not a big fan of having 2 seeds in an 8 player draw.

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9vicman wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Eastbourne draws are out:

Mens singles - R1/QF

Alfie v Gordon (!)

Dahnon Ward v Ben Bartram

Andrew Penney - v Asif Abbasi

Womens - R1/QF

Abbie Breakwell v Dana Mathewson

Lucy v Maylee Phelps

Quad singles - R1/QF

Andy Lapthorne v Daniel Escobar

Gary Cox v Ahmet Kaplan

Greg Slade v Heath Davidson
Not a big fan of having 2 seeds in an 8 player draw.

Agreed, should have retained 4 - ending up with Alfie v Gordon in round one, the two biggest draws really, is a real shame and could have been avoided.

9vicman · Satellite level

9vicman wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Eastbourne draws are out:

Mens singles - R1/QF

Alfie v Gordon (!)

Dahnon Ward v Ben Bartram

Andrew Penney - v Asif Abbasi

Womens - R1/QF

Abbie Breakwell v Dana Mathewson

Lucy v Maylee Phelps

Quad singles - R1/QF

Andy Lapthorne v Daniel Escobar

Gary Cox v Ahmet Kaplan

Greg Slade v Heath Davidson
Not a big fan of having 2 seeds in an 8 player draw.

They used to do at Slams too, which meant the world No. 3 could face one of the top two seeds.

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JonH comes home wrote:
The Wimbledon entries for the wheelchair events are confirmed as:

Quad - Andy Lapthorne ( 6th in an 8 player field)

Womens - Lucy Shuker (14th in an 16 player field)

Mens - Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Ben Bartram (1, 5 and 15 in a 16 player field) - 1 mens singles wild card yet to be announced; suspect they will see how the Eastbourne event goes - the following 4 are playing Eastbourne and arent in Wimbledon

Daniel Caverzaschi (ESP) 15
Dahnon Ward (GBR) 25
Jasiak Geoffrey (FRA) 27
Andrew Penney (GBR) 36 (WC)

The Spaniard isnt in Eastbourne now and is replaced by Pakistani player Asif Abassi. Caverzaschi is first alt for Wimbledon, though, so suspect it will take a strong Eastbourne week from one of Ward, Jasiak, Pennry or Abassi to usurp the Spaniard and get the final wild card. There is probably also leeway to wait and see what the British Open next week brings as well

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 26th of June 2024 11:01:01 PM

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Eastbourne order of play below

www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/rothesay-international-eastbourne/gbr/2024/wc-itf2s-gbr-2024-002/order-of-play/

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In the wheelchair event at Eastbourne

Mens - Alfie beat Gordon for the loss of 3 games, as Ben beat Dahnon by a similar score; Andrew Penney also got through, so three Brits in the mens semis

Womens - Lucy won in straight sets; Abbie Breakwell yet to play

Quad - Andy won but Greg lost 1 and 0 and Gary Cox is yet to play.

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JonH comes home wrote:
In the wheelchair event at Eastbourne

Mens - Alfie beat Gordon for the loss of 3 games, as Ben beat Dahnon by a similar score; Andrew Penney also got through, so three Brits in the mens semis

Womens - Lucy won in straight sets; Abbie Breakwell yet to play

Quad - Andy won but Greg lost 1 and 0 and Gary Cox is yet to play.

Abbie lost and so did Gary Cox, leaving our players in the semis as:

mens - Alfie versus Ben ; Andrew versus Gustavo Fernandez

womens - Lucy plays Zhu of China

quad - Andy plays top seeded Schroder

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In the Eastbourne International, Andy had a great win over top seeded Sam Schroder in the semis of the quad singles. He plays Heath Davidson in the final.

Alfie also won his semi over compatriot Ben Bartram and plays Gustavo Fernandez in the final.

No joy for Lucy in the womens singles semis.

Jan · Hall of fame

Alfie is the champion!