ITF Wheelchair Tour 2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ITF Wheelchair Tour 2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

BBC report on Alfies win

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/ce3n51l4954o

9vicman · Satellite level

What a great win by Alfie, his first victory in six matches against Oda. Oda is still only 18, with such flair and easy power and only going to get better, so for Alfie to be able to remain competitive and win today is really impressive.

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Alfie. Super Aus Open for him

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The ABN Amro event is the biggest indoor event in wheelchair tennis; although Series 1 level and not super series, it is described as the 5th major - much like Indian Wells nowadays or Miami before that, when it was the Liptons.

Anyway, in a 12 player mens singles draw, Alfie has pulled out after his AO exertions; Gordon is still in and seeded 2 behind de la Puente, with a first round bye

In the womens field, of 8, Lucy plays and is unseeded, playing Griffioen, the second seeded local player

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www.abnamro-open.nl/en/tennis/results/wheelchair-women-singles

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JonH comes home wrote:
The ABN Amro event is the biggest indoor event in wheelchair tennis; although Series 1 level and not super series, it is described as the 5th major - much like Indian Wells nowadays or Miami before that, when it was the Liptons.

Anyway, in a 12 player mens singles draw, Alfie has pulled out after his AO exertions; Gordon is still in and seeded 2 behind de la Puente, with a first round bye

In the womens field, of 8, Lucy plays and is unseeded, playing Griffioen, the second seeded local player

In the doubles, Ben Bartram plays with Dutch partner Robin Groenewoud; Lucy is playing and is seeded two in doubles with Angelica Bernal - the mens is a 6 pair field and the womens is a 4 pair field.

The tournament has a special wheelchair arena set up adjacent to the main arena at this massive event - Rotterdam really is well attended for the ATP event and a lot of fans take in the wheelchair event as well.

For me, Rotterdam, Basle, Vienna and Paris (of course) make a great set of European indoor events over the season and are some of the ones I look forward to the most.

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JonH comes home wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
The ABN Amro event is the biggest indoor event in wheelchair tennis; although Series 1 level and not super series, it is described as the 5th major - much like Indian Wells nowadays or Miami before that, when it was the Liptons.

Anyway, in a 12 player mens singles draw, Alfie has pulled out after his AO exertions; Gordon is still in and seeded 2 behind de la Puente, with a first round bye

In the womens field, of 8, Lucy plays and is unseeded, playing Griffioen, the second seeded local player
In the doubles, Ben Bartram plays with Dutch partner Robin Groenewoud; Lucy is playing and is seeded two in doubles with Angelica Bernal - the mens is a 6 pair field and the womens is a 4 pair field.
The tournament has a special wheelchair arena set up adjacent to the main arena at this massive event - Rotterdam really is well attended for the ATP event and a lot of fans take in the wheelchair event as well.
For me, Rotterdam, Basle, Vienna and Paris (of course) make a great set of European indoor events over the season and are some of the ones I look forward to the most.

And Ben Bartram also seems to have been lifted into the mens singles draw, where he will play Belgian Joachim Gerard in the opening round.

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Ben lost his Rotterdam opener to Gerard, not surprisingly as Gerard is a top player. 2 and 0.

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Lucy lost her singles to Griffioen 4 and 1.

Ben plays doubles later.

Gordon will start his singles campaign tomorrow, as will Lucy in the womens doubles.

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Rotterdam hasnt gone too well - adding to the earlier losses, Gordon Reid was the only seed not to make the semis as he lost in 3 sets to Houdet.

Tour has a couple of smaller events at series 3 and then 2 level in Bolton coming up. Then it moves over to the USA for a series 1 event in Georgia (previously a super series) and then Baton Rouge (now a super series event) in mid March.

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The World Team Cup regional qualifiers take place through Feb and March also, the European ones are in Turkey in later March; our men and I think women avoid playing the regionals as they qualified from last year ( men as world champions) for the World Cup directly. I cant recall if the juniors have to go through qualies but am pretty sure the quad team do. I may have this wrong!

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Well done Lucy + as she and her partner reach the womens doubles final in Rotterdam after a bit of a fight.

Good luck tomorrow!

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Lucy lost the womens doubles final, sadly. No glory in Rotterdam for any of the Brits.

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The Series 3 indoor event in Bolton starts today (there is a series 2 event next week). As an idea, this has $14000 total prizemoney; the series 2 event is $22,000. A series 1 event can vary but is usually around $35000, but last weeks Rotterdam event was actually $75000 (it is tier 1 due to the reduced entry list, but it is really the biggest non slam event). The super series events are typically $45k or above, but no higher than Rotterdam.

The slams are where it is at for the top players - a winner of those can take home $50k/£50k for taking the title.

In Bolton Series 3 this week we have a decent field:

Mens singles - 4 of the world top 20 play this week in a 16 player singles field, with top seed being Michael Sheffers from NL; from GB we have 4 in the field - Andrew Penney, Joshua Johns, Dahnon Ward, Ben Bartram - Joshua and Ben face each other in round one

Womens singles - we have a 17 player draw here, with 3 of the top 20 entered. From GB, we have Lucy Shuker (who is top seed), Ruby Bishop, Mariam Ayeni, Caroline Macdonald and Abbie Breakwell (5 players). Ruby and Mariam face each other in round one

Quad - 9 player field here - 3 of the top 20 go, with top seed being American David Wagner ranked 11. GB has 3 players in Greg Slade (seeded 3), and the Cox brothers, Gary and Oli.

There is also a 9 player men's second draw (presumably as the entries exceeded 16 and they didnt want to make a 25 player field, as well as give one or two younger Brits a chance. That field is headed by top seeded Dutchman Ruben Groenewoud, ranked 40, showing the depth of the entry here.

Next week, the field should be stronger as some more players, possibly top 10, join for the series 2 event