{"id":661955,"date":"2026-05-11T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661955\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:33:08","slug":"2026-edition-wheelchair-tennis-in-the-spotlight-from-2-to-6-june-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661955\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Edition: Wheelchair Tennis in the spotlight from 2 to 6 June! &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st June \u2013 the official draw date for the various events \u2013 the potential paths of the leading contenders for the titles will be revealed. In the men\u2019s draw, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/rg2025-oda-three-peat-finale-to-rg-wheelchair-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">three-time defending champion<\/a> and World No.1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/49290-t.oda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tokito Oda<\/a> will face fierce competition, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/en\/news\/article\/wheelchair-tennis-finals-singles-doubles-hewett-reid-de-la-puente-spaargaren-champions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2025 Rolex Paris Masters champion<\/a> and World No.2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/42775-a.hewett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alfie Hewett<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/36630-g.fernandez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Guga Fernandez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/47737-m.de-la-puente\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Martin de la Puente<\/a>, among others. In the women\u2019s events, tour leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/31400-y.kamiji\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Yui Kamiji<\/a> will be defending both of her crowns, having claimed the singles and doubles titles at last year\u2019s edition. It should also be noted that the winners of the qualifying tournament for French representatives \u2013 to be held on 21-22 May at Paris Lagard\u00e8re Racing \u2013 will complete these highly competitive line-ups. As such, four French wild cards (two in the men\u2019s draw and two in the women\u2019s draw) will join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/52762-k.chasteau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ks\u00e9nia Chasteau<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/20026-s.houdet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St\u00e9phane Houdet<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the quad category, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/52814-g.sasson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Guy Sasson<\/a>, winner of Roland-Garros in 2024 and 2025, will be bidding for a historic hat-trick, but will once again be strongly challenged by Dutchmen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/47753-n.vink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Niels Vink<\/a> (World No.1) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/45954-s.schroder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sam Schroder<\/a> (World No.\u202f2), both legends of the discipline.<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-entry-lists-mens-womens-single-double-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click HERE to discover the lists of participants in the wheelchair tennis &amp; quad events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 1st June \u2013 the official draw date for the various events \u2013 the potential paths of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-661955","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\/661955","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=661955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}