Lapthorne will bid to add to the quad singles ITF 2 titles he won in Bolton in 20, while the 15-time Grand Slam champion also partnered fellow Brit Greg Slade to win last year’s ITF 2 quad doubles title at Bolton Arena.

She will hope for similar success today when she begins her ITF 2 tournament challenge against Japan’s Chiyo Sasaki. The two-time Paralympian and World and European medallist in wheelchair basketball began her competitive wheelchair tennis career at last year’s Bolton Indoor ITF 3, winning her opening match. Local interest comes from Manchester-based Robyn Love. Shuker and Mathewson are now the top two seeds for the ITF 2 event, which finishes on Sunday. With British women’s No.1 Shuker only playing this week’s ITF 2 tournament, the world No.10 will hope to retain one of the two Bolton Indoor singles titles she won 12 months ago, with the ITF 3 title having already gone to reigning Wimbledon women’s doubles champion Mathewson. British hopes also include Ben Bartram and Dahnon Ward, winners of the boys’ singles and doubles titles between them at the inaugural US Open Junior Wheelchair Tennis Championships in New York last September. Rio Paralympic champion Reid is joined in this year’s men’s singles field by Dutchmen Maikel Scheffers and Tom Egberink, the winners of seven Grand Slam titles between them, as well as Spaniard Martin de la Puente.

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