The 2017 Wheelchair Doubles Masters (also known as the 2017 Uniqlo Wheelchair Doubles Masters for sponsorship reasons) is a wheelchair tennis tournament played at the Sportcentrum de Schaapskooi in Bemmel, Netherlands, from 22 to 26 November 2017. It is the season-ending event for the highest-ranked wheelchair tennis doubles players on the 2017 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.
Tournament The 2017 Uniqlo Wheelchair Doubles Masters took place from 22 to 26 November at the Sportcentrum de Schaapskooi in Bemmel, Netherlands. It was the 18th edition of the tournament (15th 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 championships for doubles players on the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The eight pairs who qualify for the men's event and six pairs who qualify for women's event are split into two groups of three or four. The four pairs who qualify for the quad event compete in one group. During this stage, pairs compete in a round-robin format (meaning pairs play against all the other players in their group). In the men's and women's events the two pairs 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. In the quad event, the top two pairs progress to the final. This stage, however, is a knock-out stage.
Format The Wheelchair Doubles Masters has a round-robin format, with eight men's pairs, six women's pairs and four quad pairs competing. The seeds are determined by the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Rankings as they stood on 9 October 2017. All matches are the best of three tie-break sets, including the final.
Qualified pairs The following pairs qualified for the 2017 Wheelchair Doubles Masters, based upon rankings as at 9 October 2017. Players whose names are struck out qualified but did not participate and were replaced by the next highest ranking player.
Men's Doubles RankPlayerTeamrankingTotalpointsTourn1 Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer35850585092 Alfie Hewett Gordon Reid75018521093 Gustavo Fernández Maikel Scheffers123237269394 Joachim Gérard Stefan Olsson163216214495 Takuya Miki Takashi Sanada172536222896 Frédéric Cattanéo Evans Maripa231706186397 Daniel Caverzaschi Martín de la Puente301682135498 Kamil Fabisiak Martin Legner411122109199 Carlos Anker Ruben Spaargaren
Women's Singles RankPlayerTeamrankingTotalpointsTourn1 Marjolein Buis Diede de Groot34380425082 Dana Mathewson Lucy Shuker113064254783 Sabine Ellerbrock Aniek van Koot153615174584 Charlotte Famin Kgothatso Montjane162062188385 Giulia Capocci Katharina Krüger232033130086 Louise Hunt Michaela Spaanstra26156615218
Quad Singles RankPlayerTeamrankingTotalpointsTourn1 Antony Cotterill Andrew Lapthorne53425427772 Nick Taylor David Wagner81790450973 Heath Davidson Lucas Sithole112282251874 Greg Hasterok Kim Kyu-seung12275816647
Champions
Men's doubles
Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid def. Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer, 1–6, 6–4, 7–5
Women's doubles
Marjolein Buis / Diede de Groot def. Sabine Ellerbrock / Aniek van Koot, 6–2, 6–4
Quad doubles
Nick Taylor / David Wagner def. Antony Cotterill / Andrew Lapthorne, 6–4, 6–3
See also ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour 2017 Wheelchair Tennis Masters
References
External links
ITF tournament profile