Twenty-five years ago this year Robert Shaw’s now coach Kai Schrameyer won the men’s NEC Wheelchair Singles Masters title and 20 years ago this year Schrameyer also won his only ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters title.

Fast forward to 2022 and Shaw is making his Singles and Doubles Masters debuts this week in Oss, where his remaining quad singles round-robin group contest against his doubles partner Heath Davidson could result in Shaw’s progress to the semi-finals, with Shaw and Davidson also in a strong position to reach the quad doubles final. Not that Shaw is thinking too far ahead.

“I'm excited to be here and to just have an opportunity to play so many matches against the top players. That's not something that you get out on tour too often; you have to make your way through an entire tournament,“ said world No. 7 Shaw, who received a walkover at the start of the second day of play in Oss after former finalist Andy Lapthorne withdrew due to an abdominal injury.

“Here, you get that opportunity, because of the format, to test your game out and really get to see what everyone's been up to in training. I’m excited to be here, but mainly I’m just looking forward to tons of match play.”

While Lapthorne’s withdrawal denied Shaw of one match play opportunity, on the other hand it’s left the 32-year-old with final round-robin match that, should he win, he would progress to the quad singles semi-finals.

That crucial singles match on Wednesday in Oss will see Shaw go head-to-head against his doubles partner Heath Davidson, with the two players already off to a winning start as a team after defeating second seeds Ymanitu Silva and David Wagner 6-3 6-4.

“Rob’s a very trusting partner and I trust him at the back of the court, so I just hang up the front and try and do something special and fancy, while he does all the hard yards,” said Davidson, whose three most recent of six tournaments partnering Shaw has seen them reach the finals of the Cajun Classic and British Open Super Series events, while also winning the Swiss Open.

“It just turns out that I’ll be playing Rob in two days for a spot in the (singles) semi-finals. So that'll be a bit of a showdown. We’ve played a few times and the head-to-head’s pretty even so hopefully we can just play some good tennis and put on a show for the love of the people who are coming down to watch.”

Shaw and Davidson have so far both lost their respective matches against second seed Sam Schroder, but Monday’s second day of play saw Davidson take Schroder to three sets for the second match in a row before the world No. 2 prevailed 4-6 6-4 6-2.

“He's a player who gets a lot of balls back and especially on a court like this at the Masters; we don't have a lot of space behind the baseline, so it really forces you to play quickly and to play a lot of one bounces,” said Schroder after consolidating his place in pole position in quad singles Group B.

Schroder’s countryman and defending champion Niels Vink also sits at the top of Group A after two matches. Vink beat Ramphadi 6-2 6-1 as he dropped just his first three games of the tournament.

Griffioen and Ohtani beat women’s doubles second seeds

A day after marking her return to the Singles Masters with victory over world No.3 Aniek van Koot, Jiske Griffioen partnered Japan’s Momoko Ohtani to defeat second seeds Yui Kamiji and Kgothatso Montjane in one of the week’s first two doubles matches.

Griffioen and Ohtani, who are playing together for just the third time, beat the Roland Garros and US Open finalists 5-7 6-2 (10-4) to top Group B, with one match to come against Lucy Shuker and Zhenzhen Zhu.

Two-time defending champions and top seeds Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot gained their first win of the week in entirely different circumstances, defeating Pauline Deroulede and Katharina Kruger 6-0 6-0 in 49 minutes.

The start of the men’s doubles also brought few problems for top seeds Martin de la Puente and Gustavo Fernandez, who swept past Martin Legner and Enrique Siscar Meseguer 6-1 6-1 while Alfie Hewett and Maikel Scheffers beat first-time partnership Casey Ratzlaff and Dahnon Ward 6-1 6-2.

Going into Tuesday’s second day of doubles group matches, De la Puente and Fernandez sit at the top of Group A alongside Dutch duo Tom Egberink and Ruben Spaargaren, who beat Frenchmen Frederic Cattaneo and Guilhem Laget 6-1 6-0. Hewett and Scheffers top Group B with Ben Bartram and Tokito Oda after the world’s top two ranked junior players marked their first match as doubles partners by defeating the all-Japanese partnership of Daisuke Arai and Kouhei Suzuki 6-2 6-1.

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