Full strength fields are set for the Australian Open 2026 wheelchair events, with all members of the world’s top 10 in men’s, women’s and quad singles divisions headed to Melbourne Park.
World No.1 and defending AO champion Yui Kamiji headlines the women’s singles entry list, while Alfie Hewett and Sam Schroder, both ranked No.2, will return to defend their titles in the men’s and quad singles events respectively.
ENTRY LISTS: Men's singles | Women's singles | Quad singles
AO 2026 also marks the second year of the boys' and girls' wheelchair singles events, while there are also doubles events in all five disciplines, meaning 10 events will play out across Melbourne Park's courts beginning Tuesday 27 January.
No.1 on the men’s singles entry list is Japanese teen sensation Tokito Oda, who will arrive at AO 2026 as the reigning Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open champion.
Melbourne Park was the only Grand Slam venue at which he lost in 2025, with Hewett prevailing 6-4 6-4 in their third straight Australian Open final meeting.
It was Hewett’s fifth straight appearance in an AO singles final, and second title in the past three years.
He and Oda are joined in the field by 2025 US Open finalist and world No.3 Gustavo Fernandez, sixth-ranked Gordon Reid – who alongside Hewett has won the past six AO men’s doubles titles – and Australia’s Anderson Parker, one of two main-draw wildcards along with Sergei Lysov.
Like Hewett, Schroder has reached five consecutive AO singles finals and is the four-time defending champion in the quad singles event.
Fellow Dutchman Niels Vink heads the entry list as the world No.1 and seven-time Grand Slam singles champion searching for his first AO trophy. Victory at Melbourne Park would see Vink, the 2025 Wimbledon and US Open winner, complete the Career Grand Slam.
Also in the quad singles field are 2025 Roland Garros champion and world No.3 Guy Sasson, British veteran Andy Lapthorne, and top-10 Australian stars Jin Woodman and Heath Davidson. Main-draw wildcards Ben Wenzel and Finn Broadbent boost the local representation to four.
Kamiji, meanwhile, headlines a women’s field also featuring Chinese world No.2 Li Xiaohui – who extended Kamiji to three sets in September’s US Open final – and enduring Dutch star Aniek Van Koot, ranked No.3.
Another Dutch legend, Diede de Groot, finds herself in unfamiliar territory on the list at world No.5.
The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion – who at one point won 16 consecutive major singles tournaments – continues to make her way back from hip surgery which sidelined her for eight months after the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
AO 2026 wheelchair main-draw action concludes with singles finals in all divisions scheduled for Saturday 31 January.
The Australian Open is the culmination of an expanded wheelchair tennis Summer Series, preceded by the Victorian and Melbourne Wheelchair Opens – both staged at Hume Tennis Centre – and new integrated wheelchair tennis events at the Brisbane and Adelaide Internationals and the United Cup.