11/11/13
Gordon Reid and Jordanne Whiley secured the men's and women's doubles titles on Monday's final day of the ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters at the Marguerite Tennis Pavilion in Mission Viejo, California, with Reid becoming the second British men's winner at the prestigious event and Whiley becoming the first British woman to claim a Doubles Masters title.
Top seeds Reid and Stephane Houdet of France extended their unbeaten record as a doubles partnership to four tournaments since October 2012 as they clinched a 6-3, 6-3 win over French fourth seeds Michael Jeremiasz and Nicolas Peifer.
Reid and Houdet broke the serve of both their opponents to take a 4-0 lead in the first set, but Jeremiasz and Peifer found more success in the second rotation of services games, with Reid being the only player whose serve wasn't broken in the entire match. The British No. 1 and world No. 6 ranked doubles player held his serve for the second time to open up a 5-3 first set lead and Peifer dropped his serve in the next game after hitting a forehand into the net.
Jeremiasz and Peifer earned an immediate break at the start of the second set, but Reid and Houdet hit back to win the next five games and Houdet went on to serve out the match as Reid went one better than in 2012, when Houdet was on the opposite side of the net in the final.
"It was a difficult week for me in singles and I wasn't at the level I would have like to have been, so I'm just really happy to finish with the doubles title and to extend my unbeaten partnership with Stephane," said Reid. "After getting so close last year it's great to get the title and I'm looking forward to the 2014 season already and winning some more singles and doubles titles."
Whiley went in to the women's doubles final with her partner Yui Kamiji of Japan on something of a high after Kamiji became the first non-Dutch player to win the women's singles title just a few hours earlier.
The Wimbledon runners-up found themselves 4-2 down against Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock and Kgothatos Montjane of South Africa midway through the first set, but they put together a sequence of four games in succession to clinch the set and the initiative.
After Whiley and Kamiji had taken a slender 2-1 lead in the second set Ellerbrock took a medical time out for treatment on her back. When the match resumed Ellerbrock dropped her serve straight away and Whiley and Kamiji never looked back as they established a 5-1 lead. Ellerbrock then sent an attempted overhead forehand in to the top of the net to give Whiley and Kamiji two match points and they needed little invitation to wrap up a 6-4, 6-1 victory.
"This year's been amazing for me. To end it with my first Doubles Masters title here with Yui is an early Christmas present," said Whiley. "I'm very pleased to become the first British woman to win the title. I love playing with Yui and it shows, given that we've won three of our four tournaments. We're now going to play the Australian Open together and hopefully Roland Garros before going back to Wimbledon, so I hope next year will be another big year for us."
Monday's last day of play in Mission Viejo also saw Lucy Shuker in action in the women's doubles third place play-off. However, after being runner-up in the Doubles Masters on three occasions Shuker had to settle for fourth place this time after the Brit and Dutchwoman Marjolein Buis were beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Dutch second seeds Jiske Griffioen and Sharon Walraven.
View the final singles results here.
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10/11/13
Gordon Reid and Jordanne Whiley will contest Monday's men's and women's doubles finals when the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters and ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters come to an end in Mission Viejo, California after partnering Stephane Houdet and Yui Kamiji respectively to straight sets wins in Sunday's semi-finals.
Reid reached the men's doubles final for the second successive year, having had Frenchman Houdet on the opposite side of the net in the 2012 final.
The Scot, currently world No. 6 in the men's doubles rankings, will attempt to become just the second Brit to win the ITF Wheelchair Doubles men's title after he and Houdet, the top seeds, beat Dutch second seeds and three-time Doubles Masters champions Maikel Scheffers and Ronald Vink 6-2, 6-3.
Reid and Houdet will now face French fourth seeds Michael Jeremiasz and Nicolas Peifer in the final, with Reid aiming to reverse the result of last month's final at the Nottingham Indoor, when Jeremiasz and Peifer edged out Reid and Scheffers in a final set tie-break.
"It's so far so good and we've maintained our unbeaten partnership this week with four straight sets wins, so we're confident going into the final and hopefully we can make it four titles from four tournaments tomorrow," said Reid. "Obviously it's going to be tough as Michael and Nicolas are also in great form, but after finishing runner-up after a deciding championship tie-break last year I really want to win this title."
With two Brits in the women's doubles semi-finals, top seeds Whiley and Kamiji beat fourth seeds Lucy Shuker and her Dutch partner Marjolein Buis in a rematch of their Wimbledon semi-final in July. As the Wimbledon runners-up and Australian Open runners-up went head to head, Whiley and Kamiji built a 4-1 first set lead and a 5-2 second set lead en route to also securing a 6-2, 6-3 victory.
"We're very happy to reach our fourth final in four tournaments with a confident display to back up our semi-final win at Wimbledon," said Whiley, who had earlier finished fourth in the women's singles after Buis won the third place play-off 6-3, 6-4.
"Our loss in the Wimbledon final is the only loss on our record in the four tournaments we have played together, so we want to keep it that way. I've been here before, when I finished runner-up with Lucy in the 2010 Doubles Master final and Yui was runner-up in last year's final, so I would love to become the first British woman to win the title."
While Whiley and Kamiji will face third seeds Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany and Kgothatso Montjane of South Africa in Monday's final, Shuker and Buis will play the all-Dutch second seeded partnership of Jiske Griffioen and Sharon Walraven for third place.
Elsewhere on the penultimate day of play in Mission Viejo, Antony Cotterill and Adam Field finished fourth in the quad doubles when they were unable to repeat their win over Canada's Adrian Dieleman and Italy's Antonio Raffaele in the round-robin phase of the competition earlier in the week. Dieleman and Raffaele won the third place play-off 6-3, 6-1.
Louise Hunt finished one place higher than she did in the women's doubles in 2012 when partnering Japan's Miho Nijo to beat Germany's Kruger and Chile's Francisca Mardones 6-4, 7-5 in the play-off for fifth place.
Meanwhile, with two Brits in the men's doubles play-off for seventh place, Marc McCarroll finished seventh for the second successive year after partnering American Steve Welch to edge out David Phillipson and Japan's Yoshinobu Fujimoto 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in a tight encounter.
09/11/13
Gordon Reid, Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley will all feature in Sunday's doubles semi-finals at the ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters in Mission Viejo, California after Reid and Shuker and their respective partners won their last round-robin pool matches on Sunday.
Shuker and Whiley will be on opposite sides of the net in the women's doubles semi-finals, guaranteeing that there will be a Brit in at least one of Monday's finals. The contest will be a repeat of July's Wimbledon doubles semi-final as Whiley and Japan's Yui Kamiji take on Australia Open runners-up Shuker and her Dutch partner Marjolein Buis. Whiley and Kamiji won at Wimbledon to reach their first Grand Slam final together.
Shuker and Buis beat Britain's Louise Hunt and Japan's Miho Nijo 6-4, 6-3 in their final doubles match on Saturday to finish runners-up in their pool, with top seeds Whiley and Kamiji having already won their pool before the last day of the round-robin phase of the competition.
"I've been to three Doubles Masters finals before, including one partnering Jordanne, so to get the chance to try and reach another with two Brits in the semi-finals is very exciting," said Shuker.
"After Wimbledon we know it will be tough, but hopefully we can produce the kind of form that took me and Marjolein to our first Grand Slam final together in Melbourne and our first Super Series title together at the South African Open in April."
Hunt and Nijo will play Germany's Katharina Kruger and Chile's Francisca Mardones for fifth place in the women's doubles.
Reid and his French partner Stephane Houdet earned a 6-2, 6-1 win over Britain's Marc McCarroll and American Steve Welch in their third and final men's doubles round-robin match to finish top of their pool. The top seeds will face Dutch second seeds Maikel Scheffers and Ronald Vink for a place in the final after three–time Doubles Masters champions Scheffers and Vink were runners-up in the other pool.
Whiley will play Buis for third place In the women's singles at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters , which is also taking place in Mission Viejo this week after Shuker finished eighth in the women's singles and Reid finished sixth in the men's singles.
After becoming the first Brit to reach the women's singles semi-finals at the NEC Masters, world No. 7 Whiley was unable to beat Dutch world No. 3 and defending champion Jiske Griffioen for the second time this season, with Griffioen advancing to the final 6-2, 6-0.
World No. 8 Shuker played South Africa's world No. 6 Kgothatso Montjane in the women's singles play-off for seventh place for the second year in a row, with Montjane prevailing 6-3, 6-4.
Meanwhile, having narrowly missed out on a place in the men's singles semi-finals, world No. 4 Reid had another closely fought contest for fifth place in the men's singles, but Frenchman Michael Jeremiasz eventually prevailed 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.
There will be two Brits in the seventh place play-off in the men's doubles after Jeremiasz and his fellow Frenchman Nicolas Peifer beat David Phillipson and Japan's Yoshinobu Fujimoto 6-1, 6-0 on Saturday's final day of doubles round-robin competition. Phillipson and Fujimoto and will now play McCarroll and Welch.
Antony Cotterill and Adam Field will also bid for their second win of the week over Canada's Adrian Dieleman and Italy's Antonio Raffale after missing out on a place in the quad doubles final. Cotterill and Field lost 6-1, 6-3 to American Greg Hasterok and Canada's Hunter in their last round-robin match and will now face Dieleman and Raffaele for third place.
Image - Lucy Shuker by Steve Wylie
08/11/13
Jordanne Whiley has become the first Brit to ever reach an NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters women's semi-final after she claimed a 6-2, 6-1 victory in her all-British third and final round-robin match against Lucy Shuker on Friday in Mission Viejo. USA.
Friday's fourth day of play in California also saw Whiley and Japan's Yui Kamiji book a place in the women's doubles semi-finals, while Gordon Reid and Frenchman Stephane Houdet ensured their place in the men's doubles semi-finals in the ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters. Meanwhile, Antony Cotterill and Adam Field kept their ambitions for a place in the quad doubles final alive with victory in their second of three round-robin matches.
World No. 3 Andy Lapthorne, a finalist in the quad singles at the NEC Masters for the last two years, secured third place this time, beating American world No. 4 Taylor 6-4, 6-4.
World No. 7 Whiley had beaten world No.2 Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany in her first of three pool matches and Whiley's victory over Shuker meant that her progress to the last four depended on the result of the other remaining pool match between Dutchwoman Marjolein Buis and Ellerbrock. Buis beat Ellerbrock in three sets to put Whiley through as the runner-up in her pool.
"I'm so delighted, it's been a great week so far after my opening wining over Sabine and I'm really looking forward to giving it my all in the semis," said Whiley, who will now play Dutch world No. 3 and defending champion Jiske Griffioen later today for a place in the Monday's final.
"I've beaten Jiske this season, so that gives me plenty of confidence going into our semi-final, but I know that I'll need another big performance as she's also playing well this week," added Whiley.
For the second year in a row, world No. 8 Shuker will play South Africa's Kgothatso Montjane for seventh place.
Later in the day Whiley partnered fellow singles semi-finalist Yui Kamiji to a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Ellerbrock and Montjane in their women's doubles round-robin pool. The Wimbledon finalists and top seeds have now won both of their matches in the three-way pool and will go through to the last four.
Shuker and Buis, the Australian Open runners-up in January, were edged out in their opening women's doubles match by Dutch second seeds Griffioen and Sharon Walraven, who claimed a 6-4, 6-4 victory that leaves fourth seeds Buis and Shuker needing to win their final pool match on Saturday against Britain's Louise Hunt and Japan's Miho Nijo.
Reid and Frenchman Stephane Houdet also made it two wins from two doubles matches when the top seeds beat third seeds Joachim Gerard of Belgium and Shingo Kunieda of Japan 6-3, 6-3. Reid and Houdet will face Britain's McCarroll and American Steve Welch in their final round-robin, with McCarroll and Welch still looking for their first win after a narrow 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 loss to Japanese duo Satoshi Saida and Takashi Sanada.
David Phillipson and his Japanese partner Yoshinobu Fujimoto are also still searching for their first men's doubles win after a 6-3, 6-3 loss to Argentina's Guillermo Camusso and Gustavo Fernandez.
However, there was better news for Cotterill and Field, who beat Canada's Adrian Dieleman and Italy's Antonio Raffaele 7-6(4), 6-2 in their second quad doubles pool match. Cotterill and Field now have a must-win contest against American Greg Hasterok and Canada's Sarah Hunter later today.
Saturday's fifth day of play in Mission Viejo will also see world No. 4 Reid play French world No. 7 Michael Jeremiasz for fifth place in the men's singles.
View the latest singles results here.
View the latest doubles results here.
View Saturday's order of play here.
07/11/13
Gordon Reid and Jordanne Whiley both made winning starts to their doubles campaigns at the ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters on Thursday in Mission Viejo, California.
However, Reid will have to settle for a fifth place play-off in the men's singles, while Andy Lapthorne will play for third place in the quad singles after both Brits slipped to defeat in their third and final round-robin matches.
Reid and Frenchman Stephane Houdet are top seeds for the men's doubles and made a confident start with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Japanese duo Satoshi Saida and Takashi Sanada. Reid and Houdet, currently unbeaten as a partnership in three previous tournaments together, will now play Belgium's Joachim Gerard and Japan's Shingo Kunieda in their second of three pool matches. Gerard and Kunieda beat Brit Marc McCarroll and USA's Stephen Welch 6-3, 6-2 in the other match in Pool 1 of the men's doubles.
Reid had earlier made a bold attempt at trying to become the first Brit to reach the men's singles semi-finals at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters, but was edged out by Argentina's world No. 5 Gustavo Fernandez 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in their crucial final round-robin contest. Reid will now play French world No. 7 Michael Jeremiasz for fifth place.
"It's great to get started with a confident win in the doubles after my disappointment at losing out in the singles in such a tight match against Gustavo," said Reid. "Stephane was on the opposite side of the net to me in last year's Doubles Masters final, so it's nice to be pairing up with him this time after three tournaments wins since the end of 2012."
In Pool 2 of the men's doubles, David Phillipson is partnering Japan's Yoshinobu Fujimoto and the firs-time partnership had a tough opening challenge against three-time Doubles Masters champions Maikel Scheffers and Ronald Vink, with the Dutch duo earning a 6-2, 6-1 win. Phillipson and Fujimoto face Argentinian duo Guillermo Camusso and Fernandez later today in their second match.
Meanwhile, Wimbledon finalists and top seeds Whiley and Yui Kamiji of Japan earned a comfortable 6-4, 6-0 victory over Germany's Katharina Kruger and Francisca Mardones of Chile in the first of their two women's doubles pool matches. The pair will play Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock and Kgothatso Montjane of South Africa later today, when Lucy Shuker also begins her women's doubles campaign alongside Dutchwoman Marjolein Buis.
Shuker and Buis, finalists in the Australian Open in January, will meet Dutch second seeds Jiske Griffioen and Sharon Walraven, who beat Britain's Louise Hunt and Japan's Miho Nijo 6-2, 6-2 in their opening doubles match.
World No. 7 Whiley and world No. 8 Shuker meet later today in their crucial women's singles round-robin match, a contest that British No. 1 Whiley must win if she is to maintain hopes of going through to the semi-finals. Whiley's progress will also depend on the outcome of the match between Ellerbrock and Buis.
Two-time NEC Masters finalist Lapthorne also plays Taylor for third place in the quad singles later today, having already beaten the American in the round-robin phase of the competition. World No. 3 Lapthorne put up a fine first set effort against US Open champion and world No. 2 Lucas Sithole of South Africa in their final pool match, but Sithole eventually prevailed 7-5, 6-1 to reach the final.
Taylor and his compatriot David Wagner were also on the opposite side of the net to Britain's Antony Cotterill and Adam Field in the first set of pool matches in the quad doubles. The American top seeds and six-time Doubles Masters champions secured a 6-0, 6-1 victory, with Cotterill and Field now going on to play Canada's Adrian Dieleman and Italy's Antonio Raffaele later today.
View the latest singles results here.
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View Friday's order of play here.
06/11/13
Andy Lapthorne kept his hopes of reaching a third successive NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters quad singles final alive when he beat American world No. 4 Nick Taylor 6-2, 6-2 in his second round-robin match on Wednesday in Mission Viejo, California.
World No. 3 Lapthorne goes into his third and final round-robin match against world No. 2 Lucas Sithole later today with the same record as the South African of one win and one loss after the first two days of competition, meaning that his contest against Sithole will decide which of them will face American world No. 1 and defending champion David Wagner in next Monday's final.
"I'm glad to get a win under my belt and to stay unbeaten against Nick for the last three seasons," and Lapthorne. "I've got a really tough must-win match now against Lucas if I am to keep up my record of reaching the final of every Masters I've played and I want to make up for being edged out of the US Open final by Lucas."
Gordon Reid also faces a must-win men's singles contest against Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez later today after a 6-1, 6-0 loss to Japan's world No. 1 and defending champion Shingo Kunieda in the second of his three round-robin matches.
Reid also has one win and won loss after his first two matches, the same record as Fernandez, who Reid has beaten twice in three matches between the two players this season.
Meanwhile, Jordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker will go head-to-head on Friday in their third and final round robin match in their women's singles pool, a contest that Whiley must win if she is to progress to the semi-finals – a feat that Shuker narrowly missed out on achieving in 2010.
Both Brits went to three sets for the second day in succession on Wednesday but, after her superb opening win over German world No. 2 Sabine Ellerbrock, world No. 7 Whiley was edged out 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 by Dutch world No. 5 Marjolein Buis.
World No. 8 Shuker had also taken Buis to three sets on the opening day of play and she also forced Ellerbrock to a deciding set before top seed Ellerbrock got the better of the closing stages for a 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 victory. With Buis already through the semi-finals after two wins from two matches, if the Dutchwoman beats Ellerbrock and Whiley beats Shuker, Whiley will automatically earn a place in the last four.
View Thursday's order of play here.
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05/11/13
Jordanne Whiley made a stunning debut in the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters on Tuesday night in Mission Viejo, California, when the British No. 1 beat world No. 2 Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany for the second time this season.
As the round-robin pool matches in the men's, women's and quad singles events got underway on the first day of the season-end championship for the world's top ranked singles players, Gordon Reid also eased to a comfortable straight sets win in his pool.
Whiley arrived at the Marguerite Tennis Pavilion with one previous win over Ellerbrock this season, which also came in the USA, in the semi-finals of May's Atlanta Open.
The current world No. 7 won their Atlanta contest in three close sets and after top seed Ellerbrock had much the better of the opening exchanges in Mission Viejo on Tuesday, Whiley dominated the second and third sets of their Pool 1 match for a 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 victory.
"I'm absolutely over the moon, it's a great way to make my Masters debut and it was a good first match for me as I knew that I'd beaten Sabine before. It's the perfect confidence boost for the rest of the week," said Whiley, who will now face Dutch world No. 5 Marjolein Buis in her second round-robin match on Wednesday as she eyes a place in the semi-finals later in the week.
Reid was also in fine form as he started his second successive NEC Masters campaign and beat French world No. 8 Nicolas Peifer 6-1, 6-2. World No. 4 Reid will face Japan's world No. 1 Shingo Kunieda in his second pool match, having already beaten defending champion Kunieda twice this season, most recently at last month's Open de la Baie de Somme in France, where Reid beat the world's top three ranked players on successive days en route to winning his first ITF 1 Series title.
Meanwhile, British No. 2 and world No. 8 Lucy Shuker as took Buis to a third set for the second match in a row, having beaten the Dutchwoman in the quarter-finals of last month's Nottingham Indoor. However, Shuker was edged out on this occasion as Buis secured a 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 win and Shuker will now play Ellerbrock in a rematch of their semi-final at the Nottingham Indoor, where Shuker narrowly missed out on taking Ellerbrock to a third set. Whiley and Shuker will then meet on Thursday in their final round-robin match.
As the quad singles got underway in California, world No. 3 Andy Lapthorne came within just a few points of taking the opening set of his first match against American world No. 1 David Wagner. However, in what was a rematch of the last two NEC Masters finals, defending champion Wagner secured a 7-5, 6-0 win.
Lapthorne will now play American world No. 4 Nick Taylor in a crucial match on Wednesday in the four-way round-robin contest. The top two players after the round-robin phase will go through to the final.
A total of nine Brits from the Tennis Foundation's Wheelchair Tennis Performance Programme are contesting the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters and the ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters in Mission Viejo from 5 - 11 November. The Doubles Masters starts on Thursday.
View Wednesday's order of play here.
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Image - Jordanne Whiley by Steve Wylie
04/11/13
British men's No. 1 Gordon Reid has been drawn in the same pool as world No. 1 Shingo Kunieda of Japan for the 2013 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters, while Jordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker will meet in the round-robin phase of the competition after also being drawn in the same pool.
World No. 4 Reid will play French world No. 8 Nicolas Peifer in his opening men's singles match on Tuesday, with Kunieda and Argentina's world No. 5 Gustavo Fernandez awaiting the Brit later in the week. The top two players from the pool will go through to the semi-finals later in the week.
Whiley and Shuker are drawn in a fascinating women's singles pool alongside Germany's world No. 1 Sabine Ellerbrock and Dutch world No. 5 Marjolein Buis.
Whiley will play top seed Ellerbrock first and will hope for a repeat of her win over the German earlier this year at the Atlanta Open, where she also beat Shuker in the final.
Shuker will go into her opening match on Tuesday against Buis, buoyed by her quarter-final win over the Dutchwoman at the recent Nottingham Indoor, where Shuker also narrowly missed out on taking Ellerbrock to three sets in the semi-finals.
World No. 3 Andy Lapthorne will open his quad singles challenge against American world No. 1 and defending champion David Wagner in a rematch of the last two NEC Masters finals. Lapthorne has been runner-up to Wagner in each of the last two years. Lapthorne will also play Wagner's fellow American Nick Taylor and South African world No. 2 Lucas Sithole before the top two players after the round-robin phase of competition go forward to the final.
View Tuesday's order of play here.
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03/11/13
A total of eight British wheelchair tennis players have qualified for the International Tennis Federation's season-end singles and doubles championships after the entries were announced this week for November's 2013 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters and ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters.
After recently making their debuts in the final Grand Slam of the year at the US Open, Gordon Reid, Lucy Shuker, Jordanne Whiley and Andy Lapthorne will all contest the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters, the year-end highlight for the world's top ranked men's, women's and quad singles players.
Lapthorne will bid to reach the quad singles final for the third successive year, the current world No. 3 having twice finished runner-up in each of the last two years, while after making his NEC Masters debut in 2012, world No. 6 Reid will hope to be among the leading contenders for the men's singles title.
World No. 7 Shuker will contest the women's singles at the NEC Masters for the fourth time since 2008, with world No. 8 Whiley set to make her NEC Masters debut.
Reid will partner current world No. 1 men's doubles player Stephane Houdet in the field of eight men's pairings for the ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters, having reached the final of the corresponding event in Amsterdam in 2012 when partnering Dutchman Ronald Vink.
British No. 2 Marc McCarroll will partner American former world No. 1 singles and doubles player Steve Welch, while British No. 3 David Phillipson will join forces with Japan's Yoshinobu Fujimoto after both McCarroll and Phillipson qualified for their fourth successive Doubles Masters.
In the women's doubles Shuker and Whiley will partner the same overseas players with whom they have both reached Grand Slam finals this season. Shuker and Dutchwoman Marjolein Buis were runners-up at the Australian Open in January, with Whiley partnering Japan's Yui Kamiji to the Wimbledon women's doubles final in July. Shuker is a three-time Doubles Masters runner-up and reached the final partnering Whiley in 2010.
After reaching career high quad doubles rankings at No. 5 and No. 7 respectively this year and winning a string of ITF 2 Series doubles titles together in recent seasons, Antony Cotterill and Adam Field will make their debuts in the elite field of four quad doubles pairings.
"It's the second time since 2010 that a record eight British players have qualified for the ITF's year-end championships and the first time ever that four Brits are set to contest the NEC Masters alone in what has been another successful year for the Tennis Foundation's Wheelchair Tennis Programme," said Geraint Richards, the Tennis Foundation's Head of Disability Player Performance.
"I'm sure all eight British players will acquit themselves well in California and we look forward to the Tennis Foundation hosting the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from next year as we continue to build on the success of the London 2012 Paralympics."
The 2013 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters and ITF Wheelchair Doubles Masters will both take place in Mission Viejo, California, USA, between 5 - 11 November.
*ParalympicsGB player Louise Hunt will also be competing at the Doubles Masters following a withdrawal teaming up with Japan's Miho Nijo to take the total of British players competing to nine.