{"id":4022,"date":"2025-07-18T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4022\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:19:18","slug":"wheelchair-tennis-more-events-to-take-place-at-wta-and-atp-tournaments-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4022\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair tennis: More events to take place at WTA and ATP tournaments in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

More professional wheelchair tennis events will take place at ATP and WTA tournaments next year following the approval of a new calendar structure by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).<\/p>\n

While the specific events have not yet been confirmed, the ITF said a “significant number” of new ones will take place at ATP and WTA tournaments, creating a calendar including “higher standards” and “elevated prize money”.<\/p>\n

The four Grand Slams currently have both wheelchair and non-wheelchair events, in addition to six ATP and and WTA tournaments.<\/p>\n

Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett – a 33-time Grand Slam champion across singles and doubles – said the expansion presents a “great opportunity for players to take their careers to the next level”.<\/p>\n

World number two Hewett, who was beaten by Tokito Oda in the Wimbledon wheelchair singles final<\/a>, added: “Now is the time to take the chance to grow our sport even further and make integrated events the norm rather than the exception.”<\/p>\n

The ITF’s president, David Haggerty, said the governing body was “building on the success of the small number of existing integrated events to create a tour that is even more effective in enhancing the careers of professional and aspiring players.”<\/p>\n

From 2026, the wheelchair tennis tour will be split into three tiers: Premier, International and Development.<\/p>\n

The Premier Tier is the highest level, with tournaments to be graded as Grand Slam or Masters events, or 1000, 500 and 250 as per ATP and WTA events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More professional wheelchair tennis events will take place at ATP and WTA tournaments next year following the approval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}