With the 2023 UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour now over and the latest ITF World Champions for men singles, women’s singles and quad singles confirmed, the year-end No. 1 award winners for women’s, men’s and quad doubles are also confirmed, with Yui Kamiji finishing the year at the top of the women’s doubles rankings, Alfie Hewett topping the men’s doubles rankings and Sam Schroder heading the quad doubles rankings.

World No. 2 going into the 2023 ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters in November, Kamiji’s third Doubles Masters title and her ninth career doubles title partnering Kgothatso Montjane ensured that Japan’s No. 1 finishes the year as No.1 in the women’s doubles rankings.

Kamiji and Montjane have won seven titles together at ITF 1 Series level or above this season, including at Roland Garros and the US Open.

Hewett finishes 2023 on the same men’s doubles points total as fellow Briton Gordon Reid, the player that Hewett has partnered to three more Grand Slam titles this season.

However, with Hewett’s points having been amassed from 14 tournaments in 2023, compared to Reid’s 19 tournaments, it’s the 26-year-old new ITF World Champion who ends the year as No.1 in both men’s doubles and men’s singles for the first time.  

Schroder also finishes the 2023 Tour on the same points total as his regular partner Niels Vink at the top of the quad doubles rankings, but with Schroder having played 12 doubles events this season, two less than Vink, it’s the older of the two Dutchmen who gains the year-end No. 1 ranking.

Schroder won all 10 of his doubles titles this year partnering Vink, while their only loss together throughout 2023 came in the semi-finals at Roland Garros. As well as three Grand Slam titles, their victories also included their third successive ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters title and all five Super Series titles, while they captured the inaugural European Para Championships quad doubles gold medal, too.

Oda and Chasteau top year-end junior rankings

Tokito Oda and Ksenia Chasteau are the year-end No. 1 players on the Cruyff Foundation Junior Wheelchair Tennis Ranking for 2023.

Japanese 17-year-old Oda finishes top of the boys’ singles rankings for the third year in a row after a season that has seen him make history in the men’s singles rankings. Oda ends 2023 as No. 2 on the men’s singles rankings after becoming the youngest ever men’s singles world No. 1 in history following his maiden Grand Slam triumph at Roland Garros in June.

While Oda has not played any junior events this season, the 25 per cent of his total ranking points from senior competition that go towards his junior ranking still leaves him over 800 points clear of Francesco Felici, the world No. 2 in the junior boys’ rankings.

Ksenia Chasteau was the first female player to win a singles title in Europe on the 2023 UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour after she beat Maylee Phelps 3-6 6-3 6-4 to win the Junior Grade A Open des Hauts-de-France tournament in Marcq-en-Baroeul in mid-January.

That was one of four Junior Grade A tournaments that Chasteau won during 2023, including at the US Open Junior Wheelchair Tennis Championships in New York in September, where she again beat Phelps in the final.

Chasteau arrived in New York having moved to the top of the junior girls’ rankings for a brief period a month earlier, but her victory in New York saw her return to the No. 1 ranking for the second time and she has remained there ever since, ending the year almost 40 points clear of Phelps.  

In all, Chasteau won nine singles titles during a memorable season, including five junior titles and four senior titles at ITF Futures level, having started the year without a singles title of any sort to her name.