ITF Wheelchair Tour 2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ITF Wheelchair Tour 2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

In the Victorian Open, play was abandoned with no shots hit on day one due to the heavy rain in Melbourne.

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Mixed day:

Quad singles - Andy Lapthorne lost surprisingly easily in the quad last 16 to an unseeded opponent, Greg Slade lost first round

Womens singles - Lucy won her opening match and fought hard but lost in the last 16 in 3 sets to the second seed.

Mens singles - both Alfie and Gordon won last 16 matches.

In the mens last 8:

Alfie (1) plays Ruben Spaargaren (5)

Gordon (4) plays Casey Ratzlaff (7)

In doubles, play hasnt started but Alfie and Gordon are giving this one a miss; Lucy plays and Andy and Greg are top seeded partners

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In the Victorian Open, Alfie won in 3 sets and Gordon in 2, both move to the semis:

Alfie v Gustavo Fernandez
Gordon v Martin de la Puente

In doubles, second seeded Lucy + lost in a shocking QF result 0 and 2; Andy and Greg, seeded top , are 4-6 4-5 down in their QF.

Looks like its been a generally slow start for the GB wheelchair players, Alfie and Gordon apart.

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Alfie and Gordon both lost their semis to end what has not been the best of weeks for the Brits down under.

The events ratchet up next week with the Super Series Melbourne Open, before the AO the week after - certainly better to have your poor week at the start; largely the same players move on to the next event, so hopefully our guys have got tighter, fitter and learnt a little and can do better across the piece.

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In this weeks Melbourne Open Super Series event, in quad singles Andy is seeded 5th in the quad singles and Greg Slade also plays in a 23 player field

Lucy Shuker and Cornelia Oosthuizen appear in a 25 player womens draw.

Alfie is seeded 2 and Gordon 5 in a 31 player mens draw which sees Oda playing as top seed, with a bye.

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Good day in the singles in the Melbourne Super Series event - Alfie, Gordon, Lucy and Cornelia all won opening singles. Andy got a bye but Greg lost.

In doubles, Alfie and Gordon play, having a bye to the last 8; Andy and Lucy also do, but Greg and Cornelia lost their doubles openers.

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In Melbourne Super Series event:

Quad doubles - hard fought win for Andy and partner Sam Shroder, into semis
Womens doubles - Lucy and partner Kamiji into the semis
Mens doubles - Alfie and Gordon into the semis

Singles

Quad - Andy into last 8 where he plays in form Guy Sasson
Womens - Lucy and Cornelia both lost last 16
Mens - Alfie and Gordon both had comfortable wins - Alfie plays Egberink and Gordon plays Oda in last 8

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For the AO, British entries are-:

Quad - Andy is in the main draw; Greg has a wildcard into qualifying
Womens - Lucy is in the main draw, Cornelia is into qualifying
Mens - Alfie and Gordon are both in the main draw, Alfie will be seeded 2 - I am presuming there are 4 seeds in each singles draw
Of 16

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JonH comes home wrote:
In Melbourne Super Series event:

Quad doubles - hard fought win for Andy and partner Sam Shroder, into semis
Womens doubles - Lucy and partner Kamiji into the semis
Mens doubles - Alfie and Gordon into the semis

Singles

Quad - Andy into last 8 where he plays in form Guy Sasson
Womens - Lucy and Cornelia both lost last 16
Mens - Alfie and Gordon both had comfortable wins - Alfie plays Egberink and Gordon plays Oda in last 8

in the singles today, Alfie won and moves into the semis, but Gordon and Andy lost their last 8 matches.

Alfie and Gordon won their doubles semi, Andy lost his. Lucy on court currently

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Good results in Melbourne overnight:

Mens singles - Alfie got through Fernandez after Gustavo retired third set, plays Oda in the final

Mens doubles - Alfie and Gordon took the title, beating Egberink and Oda

Womens doubles - Lucy and partner Kamiji won their semi; although they are a set down in the final

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JonH comes home wrote:
Good results in Melbourne overnight:

Mens singles - Alfie got through Fernandez after Gustavo retired third set, plays Oda in the final

Mens doubles - Alfie and Gordon took the title, beating Egberink and Oda

Womens doubles - Lucy and partner Kamiji won their semi; although they are a set down in the final

Lucy went on to lose the womens doubles final.

Alfie plays Oda in the mens singles final tomorrow in what could be a preview of AO things to come.

Jan · Hall of fame

Thanks Jon - appreciate the updates!

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Very tough final in the mens singles as Oda beat Alfie 6-0 4-6 6-4 in 3 hours 33 mins.

Good effort but shows how strong Oda is.

On to, well, Melbourne, for the AO taking place this next week.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 17th of January 2025 07:25:37 AM

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Wheelchair singles draws out for the Aus Open

Quad - qualies - Greg Slade plays Q1, Leandro Pena from Brazil
Womens - qualies - Cornelia Oosthuizen is Q2 and plays Charlotte Fairbank of South Africa

Quad singles main draw - Andy Lapthorne is unseeded and has drawn a qualifier (the qualies is a 4 player draw and one win takes a player through)

Womens singles - Lucy Shuker was a wildcard and has drawn a fellow non seed in Montjane of South Africa

Mens singles - Gordon is unseeded and plays a tough opener against Belgiums former champ Joachim Gerard. Alfie is seeded 2 and also has a tough opener versus Frenchman, Stephane Houdet - Houdet is 54 and may well be the oldest player taking park in any event at this AO?