Lucy Shuker: 2025 season in review
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Lucy Shuker completed her 23rd season on the international Wheelchair Tennis Tour in 2025 and the British No.1 registered a 17th season with at least one singles title.
Meanwhile, in doubles, Shuker made it a 21st successive season with at least one doubles title, including a first ITF Super Series since 2018.
Catch up on all the highlights and best moments from Shuker’s 2025 season:
Lucy Shuker’s 2025 season by numbers:
- Singles titles won: 3
- Doubles titles won: 5
- End of season singles ranking: 15
- End of season doubles ranking: 7
- Tournaments played: 23 singles and 18 doubles
- Win-loss record: 22-21 in singles and 27-12 in doubles
- Stat of the season: In winning five doubles titles in 2025, Shuker also surpassed the landmark of 90 career women’s doubles titles.
Lucy Shuker’s biggest win of the 2025 season:
Aside from three ITF 3 Series singles titles in 2025, Shuker saved some of her best performances of the season against higher ranked players for the Lexus British Open Roehampton, including a battling 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 first-round victory over Japan’s world No.12 Saki Takamuro.
The following day Shuker took the opening set off world No.4 Wang Ziying of China before pushing Wang all the way and finally succumbing 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the decider.
The following week Wang went out and became the first Chinese player to win a wheelchair singles title at Wimbledon.
Lucy Shuker’s defining moment in 2025:
Against the backdrop of a summer during which Shuker had come closer than ever before to losing her British No.1 women’s singles ranking to Cornelia Oosthuizen.
Shuker had widened the gap between the two players to more than 170 ranking points before they met in a second singles final in 2025 at September’s Birmingham Wheelchair Tennis Classic in Toronto. It was a contest that fully demonstrated how competitive things are among the leading Brits, with Shuker battling back to prevail 3-6, 7-6(8), 6-2.
The Toronto title was Shuker’s second of three ITF 3 singles titles this season, Shuker also beating Oosthuizen 6-3, 6-3 in the final of April’s Cougar Open in Houston.
Lucy Shuker’s 2025 Grand Slam results:
Singles:
- Australian Open: First round (lost vs Kgothatso Montjane 6-3, 4-6, 6-4)
- Wimbledon: First round (lost vs Diede de Groot 6-1, 6-1)
- US Open: First round (lost vs Diede de Groot 6-3, 6-0)
Doubles:
- Australian Open: Semi-final w/ Yui Kamiji (lost vs Li Xiaohui & Wang Ziying 7-5, 6-1)
- Wimbledon: Semi-final w/ Diede de Groot (lost vs Angelica Bernal & Ksenia Chasteau 6-3, 6-4)
- US Open: Semi-final w/ Jiske Griffioen (lost vs Li Xiaohui & Wang Ziying 6-4, 6-2)
Lucy Shuker’s photo of the year:
Having had to wait until 2024 before securing the first grass court title of her career in Eastbourne, Shuker secured a second Eastbourne Open women’s doubles title in 2025.
Shuker partnered Diede de Groot to victory in the women’s doubles in Eastbourne this year. The duo fought back to beat Angelica Bernal and Zhu Zhenzhen 5-7, 6-1, 10-7 in the semi-finals before defeating Macarena Cabrillana and Oosthuizen 6-0, 6-1 in the final.
Lucy Shuker’s quote of the year:
It feels great to get the title with Aniek. We’ve played some good matches together over the last few years and came close last week (at the Georgia Open). To turn that loss around to a win this week feels great and it’s so nice to still be up there getting those performances and titles amongst the world’s best - even at my age!
What’s next for Lucy Shuker in 2026?:
Shuker is all set to make 2026 her 24th year of UNIQLO Whelchair Tennis Tour competition, with an incredible 25th year beckoning.
In 2026 wheelchair tennis will break new ground in its 50th Anniversary year. In July this year the ITF announced a new calendar structure for 2026, headlined by a Premier Tier level of tournaments featuring a number of new UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour events that will take place at ATP and WTA tournaments, creating enhanced integrated professional opportunities and elevated prize money.
Shuker is among the British players who have already been championing wheelchair tennis during a selection of non-sanctioned exhibition wheelchair events at selected ATP and WTA tournaments around the world in recent seasons to further promote and widen the profile of wheelchair tennis and the new Premier Tier builds on these foundations.
Outside of her five doubles titles in world ranking tournaments in 2025, Shuker also won the women’s doubles title at the Miami Open and it remains to be seen whether that tournament is sanctioned as a world ranking event in 2026.
The 2026 UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour is once again begins in Australia, where new Premier Tier level tournaments take place in Brisbane (men), Sydney (women) and Adelaide (quads). Later in 2026 the LTA grass court wheelchair tournaments at the Lexus Eastbourne Open and the Lexus British Open Roehampton may also be part of the new Premier Tier and both Australia and the British grass court season are likely to be targets for Shuker next season as she attempts to maintain her British No.1 ranking.
