ITF Wheelchair Tour 2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ITF Wheelchair Tour 2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

At Bolton today, Lucy Shuker professed to the last 8, but Ben Bartram lost in the mens singles

In the quad event, Greg Slade beat Gary Cox to move to the semis. But the performance of the day and maybe if his lifetime was by Oliver Cox! Ranked 35, he beat top seeded world number 11 and former world number 1, David Wagner. Wagner is an all time great and Oli beat him in two tough sets.

Fabulous win and hope Oli can go on and build on it in the semis

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two fabulous results in the Bolton event; Oliver Cox followed up his win yesterday over top seeded Wagner with another upset over the 4th seeded German, Marcus Laudan, ranked 12 places higher than Oli.

And also into the final is 3rd seeded compatriot, Greg Slade, who upset 2nd seeded Bogdanov of the USA.

So Greg and Oli go head to head in the final, big match for both of them - Greg is seeded 3 (Oli unseeded) and Greg much higher ranked; they have never played before, but a final to look forwards to.

In the womens, top seeded Lucy Shuker was beaten in the last 8, her poor singles form continues

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Oli has never won the series 3 level before. A bit like Challenger level; Greg has won a couple at this level and is defending champion here; hes also won a series 2 event in France, a bit like winning at ATP250 level.

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Greg won the final in two sets over Oli. Good week for both. More finals to finish off this event and then the series 2 event starts on Wednesday

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The series 3 event closes today, Greg is in quad doubles final action with David Wagner, hoping to get the double here.

The series 2 event starts play tomorrow, no draws up yet on the ITF site.

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Greg followed up with the doubles title to make it a double in Bolton S3 event; onwards to...Bolton, for the S2 event that starts tomorrow

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The Series 2 event in Bolton starts tomorrow, entries include:

Mens singles - 4 Brits (Penney, Johns, Ward, Bartram) in a field of 24 with 6 top 20 players entered

Womens singles - 16 players in this draw with Shuker, Breakwell, Oosthuizen and Bishop from the Brits. Lucy is top seed again this week and 3 of the top 20 are playing. The field is effectively the same as last weeks Series 3 event.

Quad - 12 player draw with Slade, Oli and Gary Cox, and Richard Green playing. 5 of the top 20 go in this weeks event.

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Status in Bolton

Mens singles - Penney, Ward and Bartram into last 16
Mens doubles - Bartram + and Johns + into last 8
Womens singles - Oosthuizen into last 8 (Lucy shuker, top seed, lost first round)
Womens doubles - not started - Breakwell + , Shuker +, Bishop/Oosthuizen are entered
Quad singles - Slade and Oli Cox into last 8
Quad doubles - Slade +, Green +, Cox/Cox entered and in last 6

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After Wednesday's results, remaining Brits were:

Mens singles QF - Andrew Penney
Mens doubles QF - Ben Bartram + and Joshua Johns +

Womens singles QF - Cornelia Oosthuizen
Womens doubles QF (event hadnt started until today) - Abbie Breakwell + , Lucy Shuker +, Ruby Bishop/Cornelia Oosthuizen

Quad singles QF - Greg Slade and Oli Cox
Quad doubles QF - Greg Slade + (bye to semis), Richard Green + , Oli/Gary Cox

In todays early play

Mens singles - Andrew Penney lost
Mens doubles - Bartram and Johns both play later

Womens singles - Cornelia lost
Womens doubles - Ruby / Cornelia lost, others currently in action

Quad singles - Greg Slade won but Oli Cox couldnt reprise his win over David Wagner from the series 3 event and lost in two sets.
Quad doubles - Oli and Gary playing Richard , just started

So just last weeks series 3 quad singles winner, Greg Slade, left in singles from a British perspective
Doubles to come back to

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 20th of February 2025 03:52:28 PM

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JonH comes home wrote:
After Wednesday's results, remaining Brits were:

Mens singles QF - Andrew Penney
Mens doubles QF - Ben Bartram + and Joshua Johns +

Womens singles QF - Cornelia Oosthuizen
Womens doubles QF (event hadnt started until today) - Abbie Breakwell + , Lucy Shuker +, Ruby Bishop/Cornelia Oosthuizen

Quad singles QF - Greg Slade and Oli Cox
Quad doubles QF - Greg Slade + (bye to semis), Richard Green + , Oli/Gary Cox

In todays early play

Mens singles - Andrew Penney lost
Mens doubles - Bartram and Johns both play later

Womens singles - Cornelia lost
Womens doubles - Ruby / Cornelia lost, others currently in action

Quad singles - Greg Slade won but Oli Cox couldnt reprise his win over David Wagner from the series 3 event and lost in two sets.
Quad doubles - Oli and Gary playing Richard , just started

So just last weeks series 3 quad singles winner, Greg Slade, left in singles from a British perspective
Doubles to come back to

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 20th of February 2025 03:52:28 PM

Apologies , I missed Ben Bartram who is in the mens singles last 8.

remaining Brits after today are:

mens singles and doubles - Ben Bartram

womens doubles - Lucy Shuker

quad singles - Greg Slade,

quad doubles - Greg + and Richard Green +

worthy of note - both Ben and Greg caused minor seeding upsets in their last matches, Ben beating the 8th seed ter Hofte to reach the last 8 unseeded, Greg beating 4th seed Masaryk to reach the quad semis.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 21st of February 2025 07:33:13 AM

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In the singles, the two Brits still in are acquitting themselves well at this stage;

In the mens singles, Ben Bartram is 4-6 4-2 against second seeded Casey Ratzlaff. Ben is ranked 25 and the American is ranked 12

In the quad singles, Greg Slade is 5-1 up in the first set on top seeded Diego Perez, of Chile. Perez is ranked 10 and Greg is 19; Greg won the lower level series 3 event last week at this same venue and is doing amazingly to be so far ahead at this stage

For those interested in following, the score ticker is here

scores.tennisticker.de/gbr/sb.html

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...and Greg takes the first set 6-1!

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Great effort from Ben, but he loses 6-4 7-6 to Ratzlaff.

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What a win for Greg, 6-1 6-1 over top seeded Perez!

Stunning and Greg is looking like a player rising in the quad tennis world. Well done, Greg!