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Associated Press
25-07-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Wheelchair tennis returns to US Open after break for Paralympics
FLUSHING, N.Y. (AP) — Wheelchair tennis is back at the U.S. Open after taking a break last year for the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The U.S. Tennis Association announced Friday the entry lists for the upcoming U.S. Open Wheelchair Championships starting Sept. 2 through Sept. 6 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. This tournament also will mark the 20th anniversary of wheelchair tennis at the U.S. Open. These championships have grown tremendously over the years first with the addition of a quad division in 2007, followed by the U.S. Open becoming the first of the four majors to have a junior wheelchair division in 2022 with singles and doubles for both boys and girls. The U.S. has six players in the field, and the Netherlands has the most with nine. Alfie Hewett of Great Britain will be competing for his third straight men's U.S. Open title in a field featuring Wimbledon champ Tokito Oda — the world's No. 1 player who will be looking for his career Golden Slam featuring the four Grand slams and the Paralympic Games. Diede de Groot from the Netherlands can become the winningest women's champ by winning her seventh straight singles title. She currently is tied with Esther Alf Vergeer who retired in 2013. ___ AP tennis:
Yahoo
29-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Tennis ace claims doubles title as Wimbledon preparations continue
DORSET tennis ace Lucy Shuker continues her Wimbledon preparations in perfect fashion after defending her Eastbourne Open title. The British wheelchair number one and Olympic medallist was crowned Lexus Eastbourne Open Women's Wheelchair Doubles champion on Sunday. Advertisement Along with her Dutch partner, Diede De Groot, the pair ran out comfortable winners, beating Chilean Macarena Cabrillana and fellow Brit Cornelia Oosthuizen 6-0, 6-1 in the final. Prior to the final the winning duo had fought through a tough semi final against Colombian Angelica Bernal and Chinese player Zhenzhen Zhu. Shuker and De Groot had to come from behind after losing the first set 7-5 before claiming the second set 6-1. The deciding set was a gruelling test but Shuker and De Groot finally came out on top 10-7. Shuker, who lives in Three-Legged Cross and is sponsored by Weymouth firm Titan Manufacturing will now go into her final tournament before Wimbledon when she competes in the LTA's Lexus British Open Roehampton. The competition runs from Monday, June 30 to Friday, July 4 at the Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Centre. She will then get her Wimbledon campaign underway on Tuesday 8 to Sunday July 13
