It is the Austrian Open this week. Lucy Shuker plays in the womens, and is through to the last 8 via a bye.

In the quad event, Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade are playing and drawn to play each other in the last 8, and playing as partners in the doubles (hopefully as a prelude for the paralympics in 4 weeks time)

JonH comes home wrote:

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The full entry list for the paralympics is here

www.itftennis.com/en/events/paralympics-paris-2024/entry-list/

Mens singles - 48 draw - Hewett, Reid, Bartram and Ward from GB
Mens doubles - 20 pairs - Hewett/Reid, Bartram/Ward

Womens singles - 32 draw - Shuker, Breakwell
Womens doubles - 13 pairs - Shuker/Breakwell

Quad singles - 16 draw - Lapthorne, Slade
Quad doubles - 6 pairs - Lapthorne/Slade

Not sure if any more pairs will join the doubles field as they are all slightly under quota.

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This will be the final total of doubles pairs. At the Paralympics you have to be playing singles to play doubles, so the number of doubles teams will vary. There are additional Bipartite Commission places in singles awarded by the ITF/IPC, and many go to countries with an odd number of singles players to increase the number of doubles pairs. 

JonH comes home wrote:

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Those who follow the detail - Im looking at you Vic or Lambda - when does the draw for the paralympics tennis take place? Event looks like it starts 30th, so this time next week?

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 Tuesday at 10:00 UK time. Event starts Friday 30th.

Draws are out for the Paralympic Games - www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/paris-2024/fra/2024/wc-pol-fra-01a-2024/

If the seedings come to fruition, we can look to Alfie (top seed mens singles), Alfie and Gordon (top seeds mens doubles ) and Andy and Greg (second seeds quad doubles) challenging for medals; Andy is 4th seed quad singles and Gordon 5th in the mens singles and also have decent shouts at a podium.

Good luck to them and all our other tennis competitors

Alfie slips down to second place in the rankings with his loss in the gold medal match in Paris. Not sure if the two will play again before the Tour finals in November in Netherlands.

JonH comes home wrote:

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Cornelia Oosthuizen took the womens singles title at an event in Canada at the weekend. I was never entirely sure what Cornelia wasnt in the paralympics ahead of Abbie Breakwell - Cornelia is ranked 28, Abbie mid 40s , and Cornelia is 3-0 head to head. Maybe she declined - Cornelia is 48 years old. Maybe age was a factor?

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 Abbie received a Bipartite place, so am guessing the LTA made an application for her rather than Cornelia for the reasons you suggest.

It is the ITF Series 1 Sardinia Open this week, starting today and finishing Saturday.

From Britain, we have Lucy Shuker playing in the womens event - Lucy is seeded 4th in a 14 player draw, and starts with a Swiss opponent.

There are a couple of Series 2 events in October, such as the Japan Open, an event in Taiwan etc, but the next high standard event after this week is the Masters in mid November.

Not sure what players like Alfie and Gordon are doing for the next two months - a bit of rest, maybe some exhibitions, training - but it feels like some of the players in the Masters could be seriously undercooked in 2 months time!