Lexus British Open Roehampton 2024: Preview, draws, schedule, player list and how to watch
• 3 MINUTE READ
The Lexus British Open Roehampton is the world’s premier standalone grass court wheelchair tennis tournament.
It's the second ITF-sanctioned world ranking event to take place during a new-look grass court wheelchair tennis season that will conclude with the men’s, women’s and quad wheelchair events at The Championships, Wimbledon.
The Lexus British Open Roehampton has ITF 1 Series status on the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour.
When is the Lexus British Open Roehampton 2024?
The Lexus British Open Roehampton takes place from Tuesday 2 to Friday 5 July.
This comes just a few days after many of the world’s top wheelchair tennis payers have made their grass court debuts for 2024 at the Rothesay International Eastbourne and the week before many even more international stars goon to play at The Championships, Wimbledon.
Where is the Lexus British Open Roehampton taking place?
The Lexus British Open Roehampton will be contested at the Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Centre in Roehampton alongside the prestigious ITF J300 junior event (the main warm-up to The Championships at Wimbledon).
How to watch the Lexus British Open Roehampton
The Lexus British Open Roehampton will be live streamed across the week here on our website and on our YouTube channel.
When is the Lexus British Open Roehampton draw?
The draw for the Lexus British Open Roehampton will take place on the afternoon of Monday 1 July.
Which British players will be competing at the Lexus British Open Roehampton?
10 British stars are lined up to compete for the titles at the Lexus British Open Roehampton, including reigning British Open men’s singles champion and world No.2 Alfie Hewett.
Two-time British Open champion Hewett and former singles finalist Gordon Reid will compete for the men’s singles title again alongside British No.3 Ben Bartram and British No.4 Dahnon Ward. Britain’s top four ranked players were all members of the Lexus GB World Team Cup Men’s Team that won the World Team Cup title in Turkey in May.
Andrew Penney completes a list of all five current top ranked British men’s players who will be competing in Roehampton.
British No.1 Lucy Shuker, the 2002 British Open women’s singles runner-up, will join British No.2 Abbie Breakwell in the women’s field at the 2004 Lexus British Open Roehampton. Meanwhile, 2022 British Open quad singles champion Andy Lapthorne will aim to regain the title he won two years ago as one of three Brits in this year’s quad singles entry alongside British No.2 Greg Slade and Gary Cox.
Who else is competing at the Lexus British Open Roehampton?
The world-class international field of 40 players for the Lexus British Open Roehampton features one of the strongest ever entries for the British Open, with all of the current top 10 ranked men’s player’s set to take part, headed by Japan’s world No.1 Tokito Oda.
Along with Oda and Hewett, world No. 3 Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina, world No.4 Martin de la Puente of Spain, world No.5 Reid and world No.6 Joachim Gerard of Belgium, the 2022 men’s singles champion are among some of the names to look lout for.
An amazing entry for the women’s singles includes ALL of the current top 14 world ranked players, headed by world No.1 and four-time British Open champion Diede de Groot. World No.2 and two-time British Open champion Yui Kamiji of Japan and world No. 4 and 2022 champion Aniek van Koot of the Netherlands are also among the star names to watch for, alongside world No.3 and former finalist Jiske Griffioen.
Six of the world’s top 10 ranked quad players are set to contest the Lexus British Open Roehampton, with current world No.1 Sam Schroder and world No.2 Niels Vink having won three British Open quad singles titles between them since 2019.
Recent French Open champion and world No.3 Guy Sasson and fellow rising star Ahmet Kaplan of Turkey are other players to look out for alongside leading Brit and world No.7 Lapthorne and Australia’s world No.5 Heath Davidson.
Who are the reigning British Open champions?
While this is the first year that the British Open has been held on grass courts in Roehampton, the reigning champions are:
- Men’s singles – Alfie Hewett (GBR)
- Men’s doubles – Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid (GBR)
- Women’s singles – Diede de Groot (NED)
- Women’s doubles – Diede de Groot (NED) & Jiske Griffieon (NED)
- Quad singles – Niels Vink (NED)
- Quad doubles- Sam Schroder (NED) and Niels Vink (NED)
