Paralympic wheelchair tennis stars return to Roland Garros

Some 270 days after Tokito Oda’s unforgettable gold medal moment brought the curtain down on the Paris 2024 tennis event, wheelchair tennis is set to return to Roland Garros from 3–7 June 2025.

Paris 2024 Paralympic champions Oda, Yui Kamiji, and Niels Vink headline a 40-player field across the men’s, women’s, and quad draws at the second Grand Slam of the year. Diede de Groot, a five-time French Open singles champion, is also set to make her return to Grand Slam competition.

Women's draw

After eight months away from the sport due to a planned hip surgery, rehabilitation, and recovery, De Groot returns to Paris just one title away from matching Esther Vergeer’s record of six Roland Garros singles crowns.

De Groot made her competitive comeback at the 2025 BNP Paribas World Team Cup, helping the Netherlands to a 34th women’s World Group title, and followed it up with a singles win at the Tram Barcelona Open.

Since 2017, only De Groot and Kamiji have lifted the women’s singles trophy at Roland Garros. Five of the last seven finals have featured both players.

But the field is deeper than ever. China's Zhu Zhenzhen advanced to the finals at last year's French Open. Li Xiaohui ended De Groot's 145-match winning streak in May 2024 and has won two Super Series singles titles this season, beating Kamiji in both finals. 

The women’s draw promises plenty of excitement, with world No. 2 Aniek van Koot, Jiske Griffioen, and China’s top-ranked Wang Ziying also in contention.

Men's draw

In the men’s draw, Oda, Alfie Hewett, and Gustavo Fernandez—the three most recent Roland Garros champions still active— are aiming to take the spotlight on the iconic clay courts after also winning medals at Paris 2024.

Since the hard-fought, three-set win over Hewett in the Paris 2024 final, Oda’s only clay court matches came during Japan’s BNP Paribas World Team Cup campaign in May. Hewett, meanwhile, has twice beaten Fernandez on clay this season, in Munich and Rome. Fernandez responded by winning the Tram Barcelona Open in Hewett’s absence.

France's Stephane Houdet looks to rally the home crowd in pursuit of his French Open singles title since 2013, while world No. 3 Martin de la Puente arrives fresh off a win at the Open International de Royan.

Quad draw

Roland Garros was the stage for two major milestones in Guy Sasson’s career in 2024: his first Grand Slam singles title and a bronze medal at the Paris Paralympics.

Sasson’s breakthrough win last year came against Sam Schroder in a final-set tiebreak. The two have since played three more three-setters, including Sasson’s win in the 2025 Melbourne Open semi-finals—again in a deciding tiebreak.

Schroder, runner-up in the last four Roland Garros quad finals, needs this title to complete the career Grand Slam. Earlier this year, he denied Niels Vink that same opportunity by beating him in the Australian Open final.

Vink, however, is in top form. Since winning his maiden Paralympic singles gold medal, the Dutch star has lost just once in 27 matches this season and recently retained his clay court title at the ITF 1 Series Tram Barcelona Open.

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