The 2025 NEC Wheelchair Singles Masters and UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters get underway in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province on Monday, 10 November, with 36 players bidding for the prestigious singles and doubles titles as the ITF’s season-end championships on the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour take place in China for the first time.

It is also just the first time that the Singles and Doubles Masters have been held in Asia and the second time in three years that the event has been held on clay, with Huzhou International Clay Tennis Center playing host to seven days of competition. The Singles and Doubles were first held on clay in 2023, when Barcelona hosted the event.

The UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters men’s, women’s and quad finals all take place on Saturday, 15 November with the NEC Wheelchair Singles Masters men’s, women’s and quad finals on Sunday, 16 November.

Following Sunday’s draw the players begin their title challenges with four days of scheduled round-robin group competition starting on Monday.

The eight players contesting the Singles Masters men’s, women’s and quad draws will each be split into two groups of four players and the top two players from each group after the completion of the round-robin matches will advance to the knockout stage.

 

World No.1 and world No.2 men’s singles players Tokito Oda and Alfie Hewett have split the Singles Masters title between them over the course of the last four years, with defending champion Oda setting out to try and join 2017, 2021 and 2023 champion Hewett on three Masters titles.

The Japanese 19-year-old succeeded Hewett as the youngest men’s Singles Masters champion when he won the title for the first time in 2022 and Oda has won three of this year’s Grand Slam titles after Hewett started 2025 by winning his second Australian Open title.

The only other former champion among this year’s men’s entry is 2011 champion Stephane Houdet as the world No. 6 ranked Frenchman continues to put himself among the top tier of players.

2024 brought the first brace of Japanese Singles Masters champions in the same year, with Yui Kamiji backing up her women’s singles gold medal-winning performance at the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

Kamiji became a two-time Singles Masters champion last year, having made history in 2013 by becoming the first non-Dutch player to win the Singles Masters women’s title.

That is a distinction that world No. 1 Kamij still retains, but world No. 3 Li Xiaohui and world No. 4 Wang Ziying will both be eager to try and join Kamiji on the Singles Masters roll of honour, especially on home soil.

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Both players have made history during 2025, with Melbourne Open and Japan Open champion Li becoming the first Chinese wheelchair player to win a Super Series singles title and Wang becoming the first Chinese wheelchair player to win a Grand Slam singles title after her victory at Wimbledon.

Kamiji and world No. 2 Aniek van Koot, the 2024 champion, are two of three former Singles Masters champions among this year’s women’s singles entry, along with 2025 and 2016 champion Jiske Griffioen.

As with Oda and Hewett in the men’s singles, Niels Vink and Sam Schroder have also split the last four Singles Masters quad titles between them, world No. 2 Schroder’s victory in 2022 interrupting what is currently three Singles Masters titles for his fellow Dutchman.

Schroder and Vink are the only two former quad singles champions in this year’s field for the Singles Masters and, while both Dutch players have beaten each other this season, world No. 3 Guy Sasson is the only other player to have beaten both Schroder and Vink so far during 2025.

Two of Sasson, Schroder and Vink will end up beginning their 2025 Singles Masters campaign in the same round-robin group.

When it comes to the Doubles Masters, the six men’s doubles partnerships and the six quad doubles partnerships will each be split into two round-robin groups of three teams, with the top two teams after completion of the round-robin matches going forward the knockout phase of the competition.

The four women’s doubles partnerships will each play each other in one round-robin group, with the top two teams at the end of the round-robin going forward to play each other again in the final.

Reigning Australian Open and Roland Garros champions Hewett and Gordon Reid, who currently share the joint No. 1 spot in the men’s doubles rankings, head the seedings for the men’s doubles as they bid to become the first partnership to win four Doubles Masters men’s titles.

Li and Wang, whose victory in the women’s doubles at the Australian Open at the start of the year saw them become the first Chinese players to win a Grand Slam wheelchair title, head the women’s seeding after becoming three-time Grand Slam champions together.

Meanwhile, a new partnership will be added to the quad doubles roll of honour this year, as Schroder and Vink, Doubles Masters champions together for the last four years, join forces with different partners in 2025.

The team of Sasson and Vink head the quad doubles seeding at the end of a season that has seen them win seven titles together, including at the last three Grand Slam tournaments,