Lexus British Open Roehampton 2025: Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid, Andy Lapthorne & Lucy Shuker headline world class entry list

The Lexus British Open Roehampton takes place at the Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Centre from the 30 June - 4 July.

The Lexus British Open Roehampton is an ITF1 event on the ITF’s UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour and an ITF J300 level event – the highest-level international wheelchair and junior tennis tournaments in Britain outside of Wimbledon.

The junior competition gets underway on Monday 30 June, with the wheelchair draws commencing a day later.

Reigning Wimbledon singles champion and 2024 British Open finalist Hewett joins Paralympic gold medal-winning doubles partner Reid among seven top ten players on the men’s entry list, which includes defending British Open champion and world No.4 Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina.

Hewett and Reid are also among five British players on the men’s entry list, including Ben Bartram, Andrew Penney and Dahnon Ward, the three players who recently won the men’s bronze medal for the Lexus Great Britain World Team Cup Team in Antalya, Turkey.

Current world No.1 and reigning British Open and Paralympic champion Yui Kamiji of Japan heads the women’s entry list, which includes nine of the world’s top ten players. One of just two players to beat legendary Dutchwoman Diede de Groot during 2024, Kamiji’s victory over De Groot in their Roehampton final provided a taste of what was to come at the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

British No.1 and No.2 Lucy Shuker and Cornelia Oosthuizen join Ruby Bishop among three Brits on the women’s entry list, with Shuker and Oosthuizen among eight British players set to contest the wheelchair events at The Championships, Wimbledon after competing at the British Open.

18-time Grand Slam champion and former British Open champion Andy Lapthorne, who was recently awarded an MBE in The King’s Birthday Honours List for services to tennis, is one of six world top ten ranked players and one of three Brits entered for the quad singles. Lapthorne is joined on the entry list by Greg Slade, his silver medal-winning doubles partner at the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

For the second year running the Lexus British Open Roehampton will be a joint Wheelchair and Junior event. The J300 junior ITF event will showcase some of the world’s best junior players, with six of the world’s top ten in both the boys and girls rankings on the ITF World Junior Tennis Tour currently among the entries, along with reigning Lexus Junior National Championships 18U boys’ champion Oliver Bonding and 16U girls’ champion Megan Knight among the leading British entries.

Kirsty Thomson, LTA Tournament Director, said: “The Lexus British Open Roehampton provides a unique experience for tennis fans to watch the very best wheelchair tennis players in the world alongside some of the rising stars on the international junior tennis scene as they compete on the grass courts in the final event before the wheelchair and junior events at The Championships, Wimbledon. We are delighted with the strength and depth of this year’s draws once again and look forward to a fantastic tournament.”

This summer also features a number of exhibition events across our major event calendar, showcasing different formats of tennis at some of the game’s biggest stages. Hewett and Reid both played in a wheelchair tennis exhibition at the HSBC Championships at the Queen’s Club over the weekend.

Meanwhile, Shuker, Oosthuizen, Lapthorne and Slade all took to the grass courts for an exhibition at the Lexus Nottingham Open before all six Brits now move on to the Lexus Eastbourne Open this week, where many of the players contesting the Lexus British Open will have their first experience of the year of competitive grass court wheelchair tennis on 26-28 June.