{"id":379883,"date":"2025-12-31T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:15:20","slug":"full-strength-fields-set-for-australian-open-2026-wheelchair-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379883\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-strength fields set for Australian Open 2026 wheelchair events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.1 on the men\u2019s singles entry list is Japanese teen sensation <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/japan\/tokito-oda#!latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokito Oda<\/a>, who will arrive at AO 2026 as the reigning Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open champion.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne Park was the only Grand Slam venue at which he lost in 2025, with Hewett prevailing 6-4 6-4 in their third straight Australian Open final meeting.<\/p>\n<p>It was Hewett\u2019s fifth straight appearance in an AO singles final, and second title in the past three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He and Oda are joined in the field by 2025 US Open finalist and world No.3 Gustavo Fernandez, sixth-ranked Gordon Reid \u2013 who alongside Hewett has won the past six AO men\u2019s doubles titles \u2013 and Australia\u2019s Anderson Parker, one of two main-draw wildcards along with Sergei Lysov.<\/p>\n<p>Like Hewett, Schroder has reached five consecutive AO singles finals and is the four-time defending champion in the quad singles event.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Dutchman <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/netherlands\/niels-vink#!latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niels Vink<\/a> heads the entry list as the world No.1 and seven-time Grand Slam singles champion searching for his first AO trophy. Victory at Melbourne Park would see Vink, the 2025 Wimbledon and US Open winner, complete the Career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the quad singles field are 2025 Roland Garros champion and world No.3 Guy Sasson, British veteran Andy Lapthorne, and top-10 Australian stars Jin Woodman and Heath Davidson. Main-draw wildcards Ben Wenzel and Finn Broadbent boost the local representation to four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No.1 on the men\u2019s singles entry list is Japanese teen sensation Tokito Oda, who will arrive at AO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-379883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}