\n Shuker, from Three Legged Cross, won the WT 175 women\u2019s doubles crown at the Bolton Indoor WT 175 Wheelchair Tennis Tournament alongside French partner Pauline Deroulede.\n<\/p>\n
\n The pair defeated British No. 2 Cornelia Oosthuizen and Israel\u2019s Maayan Zikri in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3 to retain their title.\n<\/p>\n
\n Lucy Shuker and Pauline Deroulede, the women’s doubles champions at the Bolton Indoor WT 175 Wheelchair Tennis Tournament. (Image: Lawn Tennis Association)\n<\/p>\n
\n Shuker also put in a strong showing in the singles competition, fighting back from 5-1 down in the third set of her opening match before narrowly losing 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6) to France’s Charlotte Fairbank, who went on to finish as runner-up.\n<\/p>\n
\n Shuker said: “After a close fought singles match that unfortunately I lost, it was great to team up again with my good friend Pauline and defend our doubles title.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Also, a big thank you to tournament director Louise and her team at Bolton for running a great event.”\n<\/p>\n
\n It is Shuker\u2019s eighth doubles title at the tournament since 2014.\n<\/p>\n
\n The victory comes 10 years after she partnered with two-time Paralympian and current LTA tournament director Louise Hunt Skelley to win her third doubles title in Bolton.\n<\/p>\n
\n The tournament is part of the 2026 UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour which has drawn competitors from 18 countries in its first two tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shuker, from Three Legged Cross, won the WT 175 women\u2019s doubles crown at the Bolton Indoor WT 175…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-445096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}