2017 Wheelchair Doubles Masters


The 2017 Wheelchair Doubles Masters is a wheelchair tennis tournament played at the Sportcentrum de Schaapskooi in Bemmel, Netherlands, from 22 to 26 November 2017. It is the season-ending event for the highest-ranked wheelchair tennis doubles players on the 2017 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.

Tournament

The 2017 Uniqlo Wheelchair Doubles Masters took place from 22 to 26 November at the Sportcentrum de Schaapskooi in Bemmel, Netherlands. It was the 18th edition of the tournament. The tournament is run by the International Tennis Federation and is part of the 2017 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The event takes place on indoor hard courts. It serves as the season-ending championships for doubles players on the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.
The eight pairs who qualify for the men's event and six pairs who qualify for women's event are split into two groups of three or four. The four pairs who qualify for the quad event compete in one group. During this stage, pairs compete in a round-robin format.
In the men's and women's events the two pairs with the best results in each group progress to the semifinals, where the winners of a group face the runners-up of the other group. In the quad event, the top two pairs progress to the final. This stage, however, is a knock-out stage.

Format

The Wheelchair Doubles Masters has a round-robin format, with eight men's pairs, six women's pairs and four quad pairs competing. The seeds are determined by the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Rankings as they stood on 9 October 2017. All matches are the best of three tie-break sets, including the final.

Qualified pairs

The following pairs qualified for the 2017 Wheelchair Doubles Masters, based upon rankings as at 9 October 2017. Players whose names are struck out qualified but did not participate and were replaced by the next highest ranking player.
;Men's Doubles
RankPlayerTeam
ranking
Total
points
Tourn
1 Stéphane Houdet
Nicolas Peifer
35850
5850
9
2 Alfie Hewett
Gordon Reid
75018
5210
9
3 Gustavo Fernández
Maikel Scheffers
123237
2693
9
4 Joachim Gérard
Stefan Olsson
163216
2144
9
5 Takuya Miki
Takashi Sanada
172536
2228
9
6 Frédéric Cattanéo
Evans Maripa
231706
1863
9
7 Daniel Caverzaschi
Martín de la Puente
301682
1354
9
8 Kamil Fabisiak
Martin Legner
411122
1091
9
9 Carlos Anker
Ruben Spaargaren

;Women's Singles
RankPlayerTeam
ranking
Total
points
Tourn
1 Marjolein Buis
Diede de Groot
34380
4250
8
2 Dana Mathewson
Lucy Shuker
113064
2547
8
3 Sabine Ellerbrock
Aniek van Koot
153615
1745
8
4 Charlotte Famin
Kgothatso Montjane
162062
1883
8
5 Giulia Capocci
Katharina Krüger
232033
1300
8
6 Louise Hunt
Michaela Spaanstra
261566
1521
8

;Quad Singles
RankPlayerTeam
ranking
Total
points
Tourn
1 Antony Cotterill
Andrew Lapthorne
53425
4277
7
2 Nick Taylor
David Wagner
81790
4509
7
3 Heath Davidson
Lucas Sithole
112282
2518
7
4 Greg Hasterok
Kim Kyu-seung
122758
1664
7

Champions

Men's Doubles

Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid def. Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer, 1–6, 6–4, 7–5

Women's Doubles

Marjolein Buis / Diede de Groot def. Sabine Ellerbrock / Aniek van Koot, 6–2, 6–4

Quad Doubles

Nick Taylor / David Wagner def. Antony Cotterill / Andrew Lapthorne, 6–4, 6–3