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US Open junior champions & former finalists among 2025 Abingdon Futures Wheelchair Tennis entry list
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Current and former US Open junior champions are among the players who head the British entries for the Abingdon Futures Wheelchair Tennis Tournament, which takes place at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre from 31 October to 2 November.
27 players from nine countries will line up for the last of five tournaments on the International Tennis Federation’s (ITF) 2025 UNIQLO Wheelchair Tenns Tour to be hosted here in Britain.
Ruben Harris, current US Open boys’ doubles champion, and Joshua Johns, who lifted the same title in New York in 2023, are among the top four players set to be seeded for the men’s singles, along with current world No.1 ranked junior player Alexander Lantermann of Belgium.
Harris and Johns have both secured career best singles world rankings this season, as has British No.4 Ruby Bishop, who tops the entry list for the women’s singles draw.
Bishop, the current world number 32 and winner of two ITF Futures singles titles and four ITF Futures doubles titles already this season, leads a women’s singles entry list that includes fellow top-50 players Sandrine Cauderon-Paulin of France and Donna Broek-Jansen of the Netherlands.
Looking ahead to this year’s Abingdon Futures, Tournament Director and two-time Paralympian Louise Hunt Skelley, who won the inaugural women’s singles and doubles titles in Abingdon in 2019, said:
“The Abingdon Futures gives many of our rising stars here in Britain a valuable opportunity to gain world ranking points and to excel on home soil against up-and-coming and seasoned players from around the world.
“Home-grown former Abingdon champions and finalists include Paris 2024 Paralympians Abbie Breakwell, Ben Bartram and Dahnon Ward and as my own career started to wind down in 2017, it was a thrill to partner Abbie to her first international title in Abingdon in front of a British crowd.
“Ruby Bishop is also a former finalist and it’s exciting to have Ruby back, alongside some of our other quickly improving men’s players, to challenge for the titles. I have no doubt that this year’s tournament will provide local fans with a fascinating three days of international wheelchair tennis.”
The draw takes place on Thursday 30 October, with entry at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre free for spectators throughout the tournament.
