The 2017 Wheelchair Tennis Masters (also known as the 2017 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters for sponsorship reasons) is a wheelchair tennis tournament played at the Loughborough University Tennis Centre in Loughborough, United Kingdom, from 29 November to 3 December 2017. It is the season-ending event for the highest-ranked wheelchair tennis singles players on the 2017 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.
Tournament The 2017 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters took place from 29 November to 3 December at the Loughborough University Tennis Centre in Loughborough, United Kingdom. It was the 24th edition of the tournament (14th for quad players). The tournament is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2017 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The event takes place on indoor hard courts. It serves as the season-ending championship for singles players on the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The eight players who qualify for the men's and women's events, and the six players who qualify for the quad event, are split into two groups of three or four. During this stage, players compete in a round-robin format (meaning players play against all the other players in their group). The two players with the best results in each group progress to the semifinals, where the winners of a group face the runners-up of the other group. This stage, however, is a knock-out stage.
Format The Wheelchair Tennis Masters has a round-robin format, with six/eight players divided into two groups of three/four. The six/eight seeds are determined by the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Rankings as they stood on 16 October 2017. All matches are the best of three tie-break sets, including the final.
Qualified players The following players qualified for the 2017 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, based upon rankings as at 16 October 2017. Players whose names are struck out qualified but did not participate and were replaced by the next highest ranking player.
Men's Singles RankPlayerTotal points1 Gustavo Fernández4,6012 Stéphane Houdet3,6783 Alfie Hewett3,6424 Gordon Reid3,4885 Nicolas Peifer3,1206 Stefan Olsson2,9317 Joachim Gérard2,5908 Shingo Kunieda2,346
Women's Singles RankPlayerTotal points1 Yui Kamiji4,7302 Diede de Groot3,5453 Jiske Griffioen4 Sabine Ellerbrock2,4625 Marjolein Buis2,4216 Aniek van Koot2,2357 Lucy Shuker1,7538 Kgothatso Montjane1,5869 Katharina Krüger1,456
Quad Singles RankPlayerTotal points1 David Wagner4,0462 Andrew Lapthorne3,3933 Dylan Alcott4 Lucas Sithole2,2785 Heath Davidson2,1356 Sam Schroder8 Antony Cotterill1,2079 Ymanitu Silva1,002
Head-to-head 2017 Wheelchair Tennis Masters – Men's singles
2017 Wheelchair Tennis Masters – Women's singles
2017 Wheelchair Tennis Masters – Quad singles
Champions
Men's singles
Alfie Hewett def. Gordon Reid, 6–3, 6–2
Women's singles
Diede de Groot def. Yui Kamiji, 7–5, 6–4
Quad singles
David Wagner def. Andrew Lapthorne, 6–1, 6–2
See also ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour 2017 Wheelchair Doubles Masters
References
External links
ITF tournament profile