Lexus British Open Roehampton 2024: Preview, draws, schedule, player list and how to watch

The Lexus British Open Roehampton is the LTA’s – and the world’s – premier standalone grass court wheelchair tennis tournament and 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 alongside the prestigious ITF J300 junior event (the main warm-up to The Championships at Wimbledon) on 30 June-5 July, with Lexus British Open Roehampton matches taking place from 2-5 July.

The world’s leading wheelchair players will compete for the men’s, women’s and quad singles and doubles titles just a few days after many of the world’s top wheelchair tennis players have made their grass court debuts for 2024 at the Rothesay International Eastbourne, and the week before even more international stars go on 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.

Draws

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. Hewett will begin his bid for back-to-back British Open titles just a few days after becoming the inaugural men’s wheelchair singles champion at the Rothesay International Eastbourne.

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, and they all contested the men’s doubles final at the Rothesay International Eastbourne, where Hewett and Reid won their 50^th career doubles title together.

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. Shuker arrives in Roehampton having won the first grass court title of her career at the Rothesay International Eastbourne. 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 seven current top 10 ranked men’s player’s set to take part.

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 out 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, who arrives in Roehampton on the back of winning her first Rothesay International Eastbourne women’s singles title.

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. Davidson and Lapthorne contested the quad singles final at the Lexus British Open Roehampton, with the Australian taking the title before Lapthorne and fellow Brit Slade beat Davidson and Kaplan in the quad doubles final.    

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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)