LEADINGBRITS HEWETT, REID, LAPTHORNE AND SHUKER AMONG ONE OF STRONGEST EVER ENTRIES FOR LEXUS BRITISH OPEN ROEHAMPTON

26 top 10-ranked wheelchair players entered across men’s, women’s and quad draws

World class field heads to Roehampton to make final grass-court preparations ahead of Wimbledon

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Leading Brits Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne are among 26 world top 10-ranked wheelchair players announced for the Lexus British Open Roehampton today.

Fellow Paralympic medallist Lucy Shuker is also among eight Brits confirmed on the entry lists across the men’s, women’s and quad singles events to be contested on 2-5 July at the Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Centre in Roehampton alongside the prestigious ITF J300 junior event (the main warm-up to The Championships).

The Lexus British Open, an ITF 1 Series tournament on the ITF’s UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour, has traditionally taken place in August at the Lexus Nottingham Tennis Centre but moves to a new week in the calendar this year to provide enhanced grass court preparations ahead of The Championships at Wimbledon.

World No.1 Hewett and world No.5 Reid head the four top ranked Brits set to contest the men’s singles and doubles in Roehampton, alongside Ben Bartram and Dahnon Ward who joined Hewett and Reid in the Lexus GB World Team Cup men’s team that won the World Team Cup for the fourth time in nine years in early May.

Hewett and Reid are among nine of the Top 10 world ranked men who are entered for the British Open, with reigning champion Hewett one of five former men’s champions among the entries, alongside Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez, Belgium’s Joachim Gerard, Frenchman Stephane Houdet and Maikel Scheffers of the Netherlands.  

British No.1 and world No.6 Lapthorne, the British Open quad singles champion in 2022, is one of seven top 10 players entered for this year’s quad singles and doubles draws, alongside fellow former champions Niels Vink and Sam Schroder of the Netherlands and the USA’s David Wagner. British No.2 Greg Slade completes a world class entry.

With all of the current top 14 women’s players entered in one of the strongest British Open fields ever assembled, British No.1 Shuker and British No.2 Abbie Breakwell line up alongside the likes of world No.1 and four time defending champion Diede de Groot, fellow Dutchwoman Aniek van Koot and Japan’s Yui Kamiji. All three overseas players are former British Open champions.   

Looking ahead to the Lexus British Open Roehampton, two-time men’s champion Hewett said:

I’m really excited to be heading back to the British Open amongst such a high-quality field as we look to get final preparations in before Wimbledon. To now have the British Open as part of the iconic summer British grass court season is very special and I’m looking forward to defending both British Open titles in front of an enthusiastic home crowd. We’ve all seen in recent years how much the fans enjoy wheelchair tennis and I’m expecting another fantastic atmosphere.

With many of the players also set to contest the wheelchair draws at the Rothesay International Eastbourne on 27-29 June, a high-level disability tennis exhibition event will also be held at The Queen’s Club over the final weekend of the cinch Championships, featuring international wheelchair players as well as Britain’s leading learning disability players.

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