Wheelchair Tennis Finals 2026: Preview, draw, player list & how to watch
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The NEC Wheelchair Singles Finals and UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Finals return this month, with seven days of competition for World Tennis’s end-of-year wheelchair championships, previously known as the Wheelchair Tennis Masters.
The prestigious tournament brings together the best players in the world to battle it out for the coveted singles and doubles titles across the men’s, women's, and quad divisions.
Find out who’s playing, where to watch, and everything else you need to know about this year’s Wheelchair Finals.
When is the Wheelchair Tennis Finals 2026?
This year’s NEC Wheelchair Singles Finals and UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Finals take place from 9-15 November.
The finals of the men’s, women’s and quad doubles events take place on Saturday 14 November and the men’s, women’s and quad singles finals on Sunday 15 November.
Where is the Wheelchair Tennis Masters 2026 being held?
For the second time in four years, the NEC Wheelchair Singles Finals and UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Finals will take place in Barcelona, but at a different venue, now hosted at the Centre Internacional de Tennis de Cornella.
The Singles Finals has previously been held in Great Britain on several occasions - in London from 2014-16 and then at the Loughborough Tennis Centre in 2017.
Wheelchair Tennis Finals 2026 draw
The Wheelchair Tennis Masters Draw will take place on the eve of the tournament, Sunday 8 November.
Which British players are competing at the Wheelchair Tennis Finals 2026?
Five Brits line up for World Tennis's year-end wheelchair singles and doubles championships this year with Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne all contesting the Singles and Doubles Finals, while Ben Bartram and Lucy Shuker are set to compete in the Doubles Finals.
Singles
Hewett won the first of his three singles Finals men’s titles on home soil in Loughborough in 2017, and he regained the title twice - in Orlando (2021) and Barcelona (2023). Hewett’s 2023 victory came when the Wheelchair Tennis Masters was held on clay for the first time, with this year’s tournament in Barcelona now being held on hard courts.
World No.2 Hewett will once again be the second seed for the men’s singles this year behind Japan’s Tokito Oda, who Hewett has beaten on three occasions this year, including in the final of the US Open.
World No.5 and three-time runner-up Reid will be bidding to at least repeat his 2024 performance, when he reached the singles final for the third time.
Meanwhile, Lapthorne is a four-time quad singles finalist at the event and will be bidding to lift the silverware for the first time this year.
Doubles
Three-time doubles Masters champions Hewett and Reid will combine once again and enter as the top seeds in Barcelona. They will be hoping to reclaim their title after finishing runners-up in 2024 and 2025, Their most recent title at the year-end championships came in Barcelona in 2023.
The pair have already won nine titles together this season, including their seventh titles at Roland Garros and Wimbledon and their sixth US Open title to bring their Grand Slam tally to 26.
Lapthorne arrives in Barcelona as a former two-time quad doubles champion, with his most recent victory coming in 2016 alongside Antony Cotterill. He'll join forces with South Africa's Donald Ramphadi for this year's tournament.
Meanwhile, Shuker, a Doubles Finals champion in 2016 with Dutch player Diede de Groot, will play alongside Ksenia Chasteau of France this year as Shuker contests the year-end championships for the last time in her career.
Who are the reigning Wheelchair Tennis Finals champions?
- Men’s singles – Tokito Oda (JPN)
- Women's singles – Yui Kamiji (JPN)
- Quad singles – Sam Schroder (NED)
- Men’s doubles - Martin de la Puente (ESP) & Ruben Spaargaren (NED)
- Women’s doubles –Yui Kamiji (JPN) & Zhu Zhenzhen (CHN)
- Quad doubles – Guy Sasson (ISR) & Niels Vink (NED)
Past British champions at the Wheelchair Tennis Finals
Singles
- Alfie Hewett (2017, 2021, 2023)
- Peter Norfolk (quad) (2006, 2009, 2010)
Doubles:
- Alfie Hewett (2017, 2021, 2023)
- Andy Lapthorne (quad) (2010, 2016)
- Antony Cotterill (quad) (2016)
- Gordon Reid (2013, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2023)
- Jayant Mistry (2005)
- Jordanne Whiley (2013, 2014)
- Lucy Shuker (2016)
- Peter Norfolk (quad) (2003, 2004, 2010)
How to watch the Wheelchair Tennis Finals 2026
You will be able to watch the Wheelchair Finals 2026 via the World Tennis video platform.
