2016 Wheelchair Doubles Masters

The 2016 Wheelchair Doubles Masters (also known as the 2016 Uniqlo Wheelchair Doubles Masters for sponsorship reasons) is a wheelchair tennis tournament played in Mission Viejo, California, United States, from 2 to 6 November 2016.^[1] It is the season-ending event for the highest-ranked wheelchair tennis doubles players on the 2016 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.

2016 Wheelchair Doubles Masters
Date	2–6 November 2016
Edition	17th (men/women) / 14th (quad)
Category	ITF Masters Series
Draw	8M/6W/4Q
Surface	Hard
Location	Mission Viejo, California, United States
Champions
Men's doubles
Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer
Women's doubles
Diede de Groot / Lucy Shuker
Quad doubles
Antony Cotteril / Andrew Lapthorne

Tournament

The 2016 Uniqlo Wheelchair Doubles Masters took place from 2 to 6 November in Mission Viejo, California, United States.^[1] It was the 17th edition of the tournament (14th for quad players). The tournament is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2016 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The event takes place on 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 (meaning pairs play against all the other players in their group). 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.^[2]

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 26 September 2016.^[3] All matches are the best of three tie-break sets, including the final.

Qualified pairs

The following pairs qualified for the 2016 Wheelchair Doubles Masters, based upon rankings as at 26 September 2016.^[3][4][5]

Men's doubles Rank Player Team ranking Total points Tourn 1 Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer 4 5485 5020 9 2 Michaël Jeremiasz Gordon Reid 6 3989 5249 9 3 Gustavo Fernández Joachim Gérard 19 2149 2989 9 4 Alfie Hewett David Phillipson 28 3787 1163 9 5 Rafael Medeiros Daniel Rodrigues 73 808 836 9 6 Maurício Pommê Carlos Santos 89 688 725 9 7 Antonio Cippo Ivan Tratter 131 446 520 9 8 Massimiliano Banci Silviu Culea 140 549 363 9

Women's singles Rank Player Team ranking Total points Tourn 1 Diede de Groot Lucy Shuker 15 2543 1897 8 2 Katharina Krüger Michaela Spaanstra 22 1615 1870 8 3 Louise Hunt Dana Mathewson 24 1754 1497 8 4 Giulia Capocci Marianna Lauro 49 835 731 8 5 Charlotte Famin Emmy Kaiser 50 1435 514 8 6 Angélica Bernal Francisca Mardones 58 489 864 8

Quad singles Rank Player Team ranking Total points Tourn 1 Nick Taylor David Wagner 6 2331 3676 7 2 Antony Cotterill Andrew Lapthorne 16 1176 3036 7 3 Greg Hasterok Ymanitu Silva 23 1334 1302 7 4 Mika Ishikawa Kim Kyu-seung 35 420 1000 4

Champions

Men's doubles

Main article: 2016 Wheelchair Doubles Masters – Men's doubles

Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer def. Gustavo Fernández / Joachim Gérard, 2–6, 6–3, 7–5 ^[6]

Women's doubles

Main article: 2016 Wheelchair Doubles Masters – Women's doubles

Diede de Groot / Lucy Shuker def. Louise Hunt / Dana Mathewson, 6–3, 4–6, 6–4 ^[6]

Quad doubles

Main article: 2016 Wheelchair Doubles Masters – Quad doubles

Antony Cotterill / Andrew Lapthorne def. Nick Taylor / David Wagner, 7–5, 1–6, 6–4 ^[6]

See also

• ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour
• 2016 Wheelchair Tennis Masters