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JonH · Tennis legend

RE: ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour 2026

JonH · Tennis legend

In today's world rankings, Alfie returns to number 2. I say returns - I hadnt even spotted he had dropped to 3rd spot behind de la Puente, but it seems he had. Anyway, number 2 again this week.

In doubles, he and Gordon remain at 3rd spot, behind Spaargaren and Caverszachi who swaps 2 and 5 position with compatriot de la Puente.

In womens doubles, Lucy moves from 10th to 8th.

JonH · Tennis legend

In Miami Open this week, the 8 player fields are below (no quad event here) - Alfie and Gordon in mens and Lucy is in womens.

Mens (rankings from 3/3)

1 Tokito Oda

2 Alfie Hewett

3 Martin de la Puente

4 Gustavo Fernandez

5 Gordon Reid

9 Casey Ratzlaff

10 Daniel Caverzaschi

WC Charlie Cooper

Womens

4 Aniek Van Koot

6 Kgothatso Montjane

7 Ksenia Chasteau

8 Lizzy de Greef

9 Zhenzhen Zhu

10 Angelica Bernal

15 Lucy Shuker

WC Maylee Phelps

JonH · Tennis legend

Miami draw is out:

Mens singles - Alfie unseeded here (just two seeds) but plays Daniel Caverzaschi in opener. De La Puente or Fernandez in the semis; Gordon plays Casey Ratzlaff and if he wins, most likely Oda in the semi.

Mens doubles - Alfie and Gordon, seeded one, start with Oda and Fernandez

Womens singles - Lucy plays Zhu of China in her opener

Womens doubles - in the doubles seeded 2, plays Chasteau and de greef

JonH · Tennis legend

Ive only just noticed but the ranking points on offer this season seem to have undergone an overhaul and we are in a transition. For example, a grand slam eg the AO is worth 1200 to the winner now. The 2025 slam events still appear as 800 in the ranking points and presumably the 2026 versions will eventually replace them as 1200 as they take place this year. Other 2026 events see relative inflation and so, as 2026 progresses, we have a mix of new points and old points in the rankings breakdown.

It also looks like they now count best 12 events, which Im sure has increased - although I cant recall what it was. For someone like Alfie, this is a negative as he only played 13 events in the last 12 months and so, basically, everything counts for him. Players like de la puente played more events. It looks like the impact of this has been de la puente rising to second the other week as Alfie fell to third, although hes gone back to second again now.

Itll wash itself through but there appeared to be one or two strange ranking place changes that didnt make sense and Alfie dropping to third, momentarily, was one.

The seedings in Miami are based on when Alfie had dropped to third the week before last and so de la puente is seeded two. However, its not good news for him as he plays Fernandez in round one, who is unseeded but ranked 4 and boasts a something like 25-2 career head to head over de la puente. This match up could be a big round one upset, if we can call it that!