Wimbledon 2025: Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid in opposite halves as wheelchair draws are announced
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British No.2 Gordon Reid and British No.3 Ben Bartram have been drawn in separate halves of the men’s wheelchair singles draw to Alfie Hewett and Dahnon Ward at The Championships, Wimbledon.
Bartram, who was pitted against Hewett in the first round last year, is set to face world No.1 and 2023 champion Tokito Oda of Japan in his opening match this year, having taken Oda to three sets for the first time in May this year when they met at the World Team Cup.
Reid, the 2016 Wimbledon champion, faces Belgium’s 2021 Wimbledon champion Joachim Gerard in his opening match.
Meanwhile, British No.5 Ward, who took Reid to three sets for the first time when they met last week in the quarter-finals of the Lexus British Open Roehampton, will take on 2024 Wimbledon men’s singles finalist and world No.3 Martin de la Puente of Spain.
Hewett is set to open his Wimbledon title defence against De la Puente’s countryman Dani Caverzaschi and the two players meet at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.
British No.1 Lucy Shuker begins her 15th Wimbledon campaign with a match against her doubles partner and four-time Wimbledon ladies’ singles champion Diede de Groot of the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, British No.2 Cornelia Oosthuizen will make her Grand Slam singles debut against South Africa’s former Wimbledon finalist Kgothatso Montjane.
Shuker and De Groot will pair up at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time this week as the Brit bids to reach a sixth ladies’ doubles final at The Championships.
In the quad singles, British No.1 and world No.5 Andy Lapthorne, a singles finalist at Wimbledon in 20l9, is drawn to meet Ahmet Kaplan in his opening match and will hope to repeat his recent win over world No.4 Kaplan in the quad singles final at the Lexus Eastbourne Open.
British No.2 Greg Slade, who makes his second Wimbledon appearance in three years this week as eight Britons contest the wheelchair draws at The Championships for the first time, will meet Francisco Cayulef of Chile on Tuesday’s first day of play.
Catch up on all the latest wheelchair tennis action from SW19 along with the latest results and updates from the other Brits playing in The Championships here.
