Wimbledon have confirmed they’re doubling the scale of the wheelchair attracts for this summer time’s Championships, aligning with the opposite three Grand Slam tournaments.
The lads’s and girls’s singles will each characteristic 16 rivals as an alternative of eight, whereas the doubles attracts are rising from 4 groups to eight.
Wimbledon resisted calls to affix the opposite Grand Slams in rising their draw sizes final 12 months however have now fallen into line with the Australian, French and US Opens.
The quad attracts stay unchanged at eight singles gamers and 4 doubles groups having doubled in measurement in 2022.
The wheelchair tournaments will start a day sooner than beforehand on Tuesday, July 9 to permit for the extra matches to be performed.
Tokito Oda of Japan and Diede de Groot of the Netherlands are the reigning Wimbledon champions within the respective males’s and girls’s wheelchair class, whereas Nice Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are the boys’s doubles champions and De Groot and Jiske Griffioen the ladies’s doubles champions.
Sam Schröder and Niels Vink are the present Wimbledon quad doubles champions.
With 100 days to go till the beginning of the event on July 1, the All England Membership introduced it had obtained a file variety of functions for the general public ticket poll, with worldwide demand notably robust.
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