Wheelchair tennis is again on the US Open after taking a break final 12 months for the 2024 Paralympic Video games in Paris.
The U.S. Tennis Affiliation introduced Friday the entry lists for the upcoming US Open Wheelchair Championships beginning Sept. 2 by way of Sept. 6 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle. This event additionally will mark the twentieth anniversary of wheelchair tennis on the US Open.
These championships have grown tremendously over time first with the addition of a quad division in 2007, adopted by the US Open changing into the primary of the 4 majors to have a junior wheelchair division in 2022 with singles and doubles for each girls and boys.
The U.S. has six gamers within the subject, and the Netherlands has probably the most with 9.
Alfie Hewett of Nice Britain shall be competing for his third straight males’s US Open title in a subject that includes Wimbledon champ Tokito Oda — the world’s No. 1 participant who shall be on the lookout for his profession Golden Slam that includes the 4 Grand slams and the Paralympic Video games.
Diede de Groot from the Netherlands can grow to be the winningest girls’s champ by profitable her seventh straight singles title. She presently is tied with Esther Alf Vergeer who retired in 2013.