Melbourne Wheelchair Open 2025: Preview, draws, player list & how to watch
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Get ready for the first ITF Super Series wheelchair tennis event of the 2025 season, with six Brits set to compete. Here's everything you need to know from draws and player lists to live streams.
When is the Melbourne Wheelchair Open 2025?
The Melbourne Wheelchair Open will take place from Sunday 12 January until Friday 17 January.
Where is the Melbourne Wheelchair Open 2025 being held?
The Melbourne Wheelchair Open will be hosted at the Hume Tennis and Community Centre – an impressive tennis facility with 16 courts just north of Melbourne.
What is an ITF Super Series event?
The Melbourne Wheelchair Open is an ITF Super Series event – the highest level of wheelchair tennis event on the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour outside of the Grand Slams and the end-of-season Masters.
These prestigious events are the equivalent of the Masters tournaments on the ATP and WTA tours.
When is the Melbourne Wheelchair Open draw?
The singles draws for the Melbourne Wheelchair Open will take place on Saturday afternoon, 11 January, Melbourne time.
The doubles draws will take place on the afternoon of the first day of play, Sunday 12 January.
Melbourne Wheelchair Open draws
How to watch the Melbourne Wheelchair Open 2025
Live coverage of the semi-finals and finals at the Melbourne Wheelchair Open will be available at the Hume Tennis and Community Centre Facebook.
Which British players will be competing in the Melbourne Wheelchair Open 2025?
Women’s
Britain will be doubly represented in the women’s, men’s and quad events at this year’s Melbourne Wheelchair Open with Lucy Shuker and Cornelia Oosthuizen contesting the women’s singles and doubles.
Shuker is a three-time singles quarter-finalist and a doubles semi-finalist in Melbourne and will be aiming for a career-best performance in 2025 after reaching the last eight in both singles and doubles last year.
Oosthuizen makes her seasonal debut in Australia for the second time in three years and will look to go beyond the first round in singles in Melbourne for the first time, while she was a doubles quarter-finalist in 2023. Oosthuizen will then move on to the qualifying draw for the Australian Open.
Men’s
Alfie Hewett returns to Melbourne with his eyes set on regaining the men’s singles title he won in 2023 from last year. Runner-up last year to current world No.1 Tokito Oda, Hewett has started his 2025 season by reaching the singles semi-finals at the Victorian Open along with British No.2 Gordon Reid.
Hewett will again be joined by his doubles partner Reid in both singles and doubles draws at the second of two tournaments at Hume Tennis Centre in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Reid endured a rare first round singles loss at the Melbourne Open last year, but has twice reached the semi-finals since 2021.
Hewett and Reid open their doubles account together for 2025 at the Super Series tournament, as the reigning champions bid to build on a memorable 2024 during which the Paris Paralympic gold medallists also took their record haul of Grand Slam titles together to 21.
Quad
Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade look to hone their preparations for the Australian Open at the Melbourne Wheelchair Open after early exits in quad singles and doubles at the Victorian Open.
Lapthorne, a previous champion when the Melbourne Open was at ITF 2 level (2015 and 2016), met Slade in the first round of the quad singles last year before bowing out in the quarter-finals to eventual champion Sam Schroder.
Slade contests the Melbourne Wheelchair Open for the second successive year before then joining Oosthuizen in the qualifying draws for the Australian Open. The 22-year-old British No.2 enjoyed a memorable 2024 season that included two singles titles and seven doubles titles (including three with Lapthorne), while he and Lapthorne also won the quad doubles silver medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
Who are the Melbourne Wheelchair Open reigning champions?
- Wheelchair men’s singles – Tokito Oda (JPN)
- Wheelchair women’s singles – Diede de Groot (NED)
- Wheelchair quad singles – Sam Schroder (NED)
- Wheelchair men’s doubles – Alfie Hewett (GBR) & Gordon Reid (GBR)
- Wheelchair women’s doubles – Diede de Groot (NED) & Aniek van Koot (NED)
- Wheelchair quad doubles - Donald Ramphadi (RSA) & Guy Sasson (ISR)
