British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

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

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!

Alfie and Oda meet again in the final as their rivalry continues. Oda beat Gordon Reid, whilst Alfie beat Gustavo Fernandez.

Alfie and Gordon also won their mens doubles semi, beating Oda and Fernandez, and play Caverzaschi and de la Puente in the final.

Meanwhile, Lucy Shuker and partner lost easily in the womens doubles semis.

Excellent! Comprehensive!

That will give Alfie a lot of confidence as the season progresses

The World Team Cup is to be played in Florida this year, just after the US Open, so moving back a couple of months to later in the season. Celebrating its 50th anniversary

www.itftennis.com/en/news-and-media/articles/2026-bnp-paribas-world-team-cup-set-to-return-to-united-states-in-momentous-year-for-wheelchair-tennis/

GB have qualified for each of mens, womens and quad events. The article doesnt mention juniors, which is usually held alongside it but not sure from this if that is the case this season.

In the early Korean "warm up" event ahead of the events mentioned in the post above, the 175 level Busan Open, Andrew Penney flies the flag still and is in the singles quarterfinals.