The 2025 Australian Wheelchair Summer season Collection will welcome greater than 88 gamers from over 18 international locations to Victoria in January.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 13 December 2024 | Camille Russo
The 2025 Australian Wheelchair Summer season Collection will welcome greater than 88 gamers from over 18 international locations to Victoria in January.
To formally open the occasion, native Hume participant and 15-year-old Australian Open wildcard holder Jin Woodman joined Paralympian Heath Davidson in launching the Summer season of Wheelchair Tennis on the Hume Tennis and Neighborhood Centre.
The summer time wheelchair occasions embrace the Victorian Wheelchair Tennis Open (ITF1) from 6-10 January, the Melbourne Wheelchair Open (Tremendous Collection) from 12-17 January and the Australian Open Wheelchair Championships (Grand Slam) from 20-25 January.
“I at all times love popping out to Hume and taking part in within the two weeks main into the AO,” stated Davidson.
“Tennis Australia has an excellent grassroots pathway program. Within the final three years we’ve gained two World Staff Cups within the juniors and this yr we got here second. It’s a credit score to all of the younger gamers coming by means of this pathway like Jin – he’s fearless on the courtroom and works so exhausting.”
Reflecting on his greatest yr but, Woodman stated: “This yr I made the US Open juniors, it was superb. The World Staff Cup in Turkey was additionally an excellent expertise travelling on my own with no dad or mum, counting on the coaches and myself.
“The Australian Open goes to be superb contemplating it’s my first one. I’m going to like it with all of the Aussie followers who will come out to look at us. I’m proud to be representing Australia on house soil.”
Reflecting on the expansion of wheelchair tennis, Chief Tennis Officer Tom Larner stated: “Important funding from Tennis Australia has gone into the wheelchair participant pathway, with a big concentrate on elevated prizemoney on the Australian Open for wheelchair occasions yearly.
“This yr noticed report entries within the Australian Wheelchair Summer season Collection with greater than 100 athletes on website, and it’s junior gamers like Jin who’re the driving power behind this progress.
“Australia has essentially the most junior gamers with an ITF rating, and we presently have 14 gamers throughout the elite junior pathway – double the quantity from 5 years in the past. Inclusion is a cornerstone of our sport so there’s loads to be pleased with as we proceed to create alternatives and make investments on this house,” Larner continued.
The Australian Open 2025 may also characteristic the inaugural junior wheelchair match, together with the inaugural wheelchair qualifying occasion for the lads’s, ladies’s and quad attracts.
The 2025 Australian Wheelchair Summer season Collection
| Match | Date | Venue |
| Victorian Wheelchair Tennis Open – ITF1 | 6-10 January 2025 | Hume Tennis and Neighborhood Centre, Vic |
| Melbourne Wheelchair Open – Tremendous Collection | 12-17 January 2025 | Hume Tennis and Neighborhood Centre, Vic |
| Australian Open Wheelchair Championships – Grand Slam | 20-25 January 2025 | Melbourne Park, Vic |
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