Wimbledon 2024: Wheelchair tournaments to double in size in alignment with other Grand Slams

ByNancy Gillen

Updated 23/03/2024 at 11:11 GMT

The wheelchair singles tournaments at Wimbledon are set to be doubled to 16 players this year, while the doubles competition will go from four to eight teams. This will align Wimbledon with the Australian Open, French Open and US Open. There will be no change in size to the Grand Slam’s quad tournaments, however, which feature eight singles players and four doubles teams.

Wimbledon’s wheelchair single and double tournaments will expand in size this year to align with the other Grand Slams.

The singles event will be doubled to feature a 16-player draw, while the doubles competition will go from four to eight teams.

This brings Wimbledon into alignment with the Australian Open, French Open and US Open, and means the wheelchair tournaments will start a day earlier than normal, on Tuesday, July 9.

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There will be no change in size to Wimbledon’s quad tournaments, however, which includes eight singles players and four doubles teams.

This differs from the Australian Open and the US Open, which have 16 singles players and eight doubles teams in their quad tournaments.

Home favourites Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid will go into the Wimbledon men’s wheelchair doubles tournament as defending champions, having defeated Japan’s Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in the final last year.

Alfie Hewett of Great Britain in action against Joachim Gerard of Belgium in the Men's Wheelchair Singles Quarter Final match during day ten of The Championships Wimbledon 2023 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 12, 2023 in London, Englan

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Hewett also made it to the final of the men’s wheelchair singles tournament, but lost to Oda.

Diede de Groot, a 21-time Grand Slam winner, is the reigning champion in the women's wheelchair singles, while her and her Dutch team-mate Jiske Griffioen will defend their women’s doubles title this year.

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Niels Vink is set to go for a title defence in both the quad singles and doubles, having won the latter last year alongside Sam Schroder.

Wimbledon will run from July 1 to 14 this year, with a daily highlights show available on Eurosport 1 and discovery+.

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