Wheelchair Tennis Masters 2025: Preview, draw, player list & how to watch
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The NEC Wheelchair Singles Masters and UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters is upon us once again this month, with seven days of competition for the ITF’s end-of-year wheelchair championships.
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 and quad divisions.
Find out who’s playing, where to watch and everything else you need to know about this year’s Wheelchair Masters.
When is the Wheelchair Tennis Masters 2025?
This year’s NEC Wheelchair Singles Masters and UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters takes place from 10-16 November.
The finals of the men’s, women’s and quad doubles events take place on Saturday 15 November and the men’s women’s and quad singles finals on Sunday 16 November.
Where is the Wheelchair Tennis Masters 2025 being held?
The NEC Wheelchair Singles Masters and UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters will take place at the Huzhou International Clay Tennis Centre in Zhejiang Province - the largest indoor clay court facility in Asia as the year-end championships are held in China for the very first time.
The Singles Masters has previously been held in Great Britain on several occasions - in London from 2014-16 and then at the Loughborough Tennis Centre in 2017.
Which British players are competing at the Wheelchair Tennis Masters 2025?
Four Brits line up for the ITF’s year-end wheelchair singles and doubles championships this year with Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne all contesting the singles and doubles Masters, while Greg Slade will compete in the doubles for the second successive year.
Singles
Hewett won the first of his three singles Masters 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 marking just the second time that the event has been held on the dirt.
World No.2 Hewett will once again be the second seed for the men’s singles this year behind Japan’s Tokito Oda - the player Hewett narrowly lost to in last year’s semi-finals, as well as in this year’s Wimbledon final.
World No.5 and three-time runner-up Reid goes to China off the back of finishing runner-up to Hewett in the inaugural men’s wheelchair singles final at the Rolex Paris Masters last weekend. Reid will be bidding to at least repeat last year’s 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 Huzhou. The joint doubles world No.1s will be hoping to reclaim their title after finishing runners-up in 2024. The pair have already won six titles together this season, including their sixth successive titles at the Australian Open and Roland Garros to bring their Grand Slam tally to 23.
Lapthorne arrives in Huzhou as a former two-time quad doubles champion, with his most recent victory coming in 2016 alongside Antony Cotterill. This year he will join forces with Australia’s Heath Davidson after the duo clinched their first tile together at October’s French Riviera Open Super Series tournament.
Meanwhile, it’s been another memorable season for Slade after the British No.2 reached his first Grand Slam quad doubles final at Wimbledon alongside South Africa’s Donald Ramphadi. Slade also reached the semi-finals of the US Open with Jin Woodman after beating former doubles Masters finalists Davidson and Robert Shaw. Slade will now team up with Woodman for the Doubles Masters event.
When is the Wheelchair Tennis Masters 2025 draw?
The draws for both the singles and doubles events will take place on Sunday 9 November before the round-robin group matches begin on Monday 10 November.
Who are the reigning Wheelchair Tennis Masters champions?
- Men’s singles – Tokito Oda (JPN)
- Women's singles – Yui Kamiji (JPN)
- Quad singles – Niels Vink (NED)
- Men’s doubles - Martin de la Puente (ESP) & Joachim Gerard (BEL)
- Women’s doubles – Jiske Griffioen (NED) & Aniek van Koot (NED)
- Quad doubles – Sam Schroder (NED) & Niels Vink (NED)
Past British champions at the Wheelchair Tennis Masters
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)
- Jordanne Whiley (2013, 2014)
- Lucy Shuker (2016)
- Peter Norfolk (quad) (2003, 2004, 2010)
How to watch the Wheelchair Tennis Masters 2025
You will be able to watch the Wheelchair Masters 2025 via the ITF fan-facing video platform. Huzhou is 8 hours ahead of the UK.
