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Wheelchair Tennis At The 2024 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair tennis at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France ran between 30 August and 7 September. It featured singles and doubles events in men's, women's and quads and it took place at the Roland Garros Stadium on clay surface. Qualification An NPC can enter a total maximum of eleven qualification slots: * four male and female athletes in men's and women's singles events. * three athletes in quads singles. * two men's and women's teams in the doubles events. * one team in the quads doubles. The qualification slots are allocated to the individual athletes, not the NPC. All athletes must also have an official ranking in the Wheelchair Tennis Singles World Ranking list and have been part of a nominated team at a World Team Cup event, minimum of two years between 2021 and 2024, one of those should be in either 2023 or 2024. § : qualified for doubles Medalists Medal table See also * Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics References External links Results book {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wheelchair Tennis - Paralympic Pictogram
A wheelchair is a mobilized form of chair using two or more wheels, a footrest, and an armrest usually cushioned. It is used when walking is difficult or impossible to do due to illnesses, injury, disabilities, or age-related health conditions. Wheelchairs provide mobility, postural support, and freedom to those who cannot walk or have difficulty walking, enabling them to move around, participate in everyday activities, and live life on their own terms. Wheelchairs come in a wide variety of formats to meet the specific needs of their users. They may include specialized seating adaptions, and individualized controls, and may be specific to particular activities, as with sports wheelchairs and beach wheelchairs. The most widely recognized distinction is between motorized wheelchairs, where propulsion is provided by batteries and electric motors, and manual wheelchairs, where the propulsive force is provided either by the wheelchair user or occupant pushing the wheelchair by hand ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tokito Oda
Tokito Oda (小田 凱人, ''Oda Tokito'', born 8 May 2006) is a Japanese professional wheelchair tennis player. Oda has won four major singles titles. By winning the 2023 French Open, he became the youngest man to win a major tennis tournament of any discipline in the Open Era, at 17 years and 33 days old. The win moved Oda up to world number one in the rankings. A month later he also won the singles title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships The 2023 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam (tennis), major tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Tournament The tournament was played on grass courts, wi .... Career statistics Grand Slam performance timelines Wheelchair singles nopor* Wheelchair doubles =Grand Slam tournament finals= Wheelchair singles: 6 (5 titles, 2 runner-ups) Wheelchair doubles: 5 (0 titles, 6 runner-ups) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Niels Vink
Niels Vink (born 6 December 2002) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. Vink has won five Grand Slam singles titles, two at the French Open, two at Wimbledon and one at the US Open. He has also won nine Grand Slam doubles titles, all have been with Sam Schröder. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Vink won a gold medal with partner Sam Schröder in the Quad Doubles, and a bronze in the Quad Singles. Early life At the age of one year, Vink contracted a bacterial infection ( meningococcal sepsis). As a result, he lost both legs and several phalanges. At the age of nine, he attended the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. This is where his ambition arose to one day participate in the Paralympic Games The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disability, disabilities. There are Winter Paralympic Games, Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 .... After trying out a few sports, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wang Ziying
Wang Ziying (born 15 August 1998) is a Chinese wheelchair tennis player, she is currently ranked at world number four as of 20 January 2025. She has competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and is a 2024 French Open singles' and doubles' quarterfinalist. Partnering Li Xiaohui, Wang won the wheelchair women's doubles title at the 2025 Australian Open The 2025 Australian Open was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park from 12 to 26 January 2025. It was the 113th edition of the Australian Open, the 57th in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam (tenn .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Ziying 1998 births Living people Chinese female tennis players 21st-century Chinese sportswomen Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for China Wheelchair tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Australian Open (tennis) champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Guo Luoyao
Guo Luoyao (; born 11 November 2001) is a Chinese wheelchair tennis player. She competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, winning the bronze medal in the women's doubles event along with Wang Ziying Wang Ziying (born 15 August 1998) is a Chinese wheelchair tennis player, she is currently ranked at world number four as of 20 January 2025. She has competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and is a 2024 French Open singles' and doubles' quarter .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Luoyao, Guo 2001 births Living people Chinese female tennis players 21st-century Chinese sportswomen Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for China Wheelchair tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Tennis players from Beijing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Manami Tanaka (tennis)
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player, she is world number 12 in singles and world number 8 in doubles. She competed at the Japan at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, 2020 Summer Paralympics. She is a 2023 Australian Open semifinalist in both singles and doubles, she also reached the semifinals at the French Open and US Open in the doubles with partner Dana Mathewson. She would later win a doubles gold medal at the 2024 Paralympics, 2024 Paris Paralympics with partner Yui Kamiji. Tanaka took up wheelchair tennis in high school after she severely injured her spine in a freak accident when she slipped and fell on ice-covered stairs outside of her house which left her paralyzed from the waist down. Grand Slam Finals Wheelchair doubles: 1 (1 runner-ups) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tanaka, Manami 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Kumamoto Japanese female tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Japan Wheelchair tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aniek Van Koot
Aniek van Koot (born 15 August 1990) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles. Van Koot has won 26 major titles, having won the 2013 Australian Open, 2013 US Open and 2019 Wimbledon Championships in wheelchair singles combined with 23 major titles in doubles, variously partnering Florence Gravellier, Daniela di Toro, Jiske Griffioen and Diede de Groot. Van Koot has completed the calendar year Grand Slam in doubles on two occasions, in 2013 with Griffioen, and in 2019 alongside de Groot. She won the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in 2014 in singles, and in 2012, 2015 and 2018 in doubles. Van Koot has also won five Paralympic medals, gold in doubles at both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, silver in singles at London 2012 and Rio 2016, and silver in doubles at London 2012. Personal life Aniek van Koot was born with her right leg shorter than her left. After a series of unsuccessful corrective operations van Koot had her right leg amput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diede De Groot
Diede de Groot (; born 19 December 1996) is a Dutch professional wheelchair tennis player who was world No. 1 in both singles and doubles. De Groot is a 42-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major champion, having won a record 23 titles in singles and 19 in doubles. De Groot had a three-year, 145-match, winning streak in singles, from a defeat in February 2021 to Yui Kamiji until a defeat in May 2024 to Li Xiaohui (tennis), Li Xiaohui. During this streak she achieved the first calendar-year Grand Slam (tennis)#Super Slam, Super Slam in tennis history by winning all four major titles, the Summer Paralympic Games, Paralympic gold medal, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters title in women's singles in 2021. The following year, she became the first player in any discipline of tennis to defend the Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam and win all four majors in two consecutive years, and did so yet again in 2023. At the 2024 French Open – Wheelchair women's singles, 2024 French Open, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yui Kamiji
is a Japanese professional wheelchair tennis player. She has won 32 major titles, as well as a Paralympic silver and bronze medal in singles and doubles, respectively, at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She would later win gold in both at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. She also won a bronze medal in singles at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Partnering Jordanne Whiley, Kamiji achieved the Grand Slam in doubles in 2014, and also won the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in doubles. Kamiji is currently managed by Avex Group under its ''Avex Challenged Athletes'' program. 2013–present Kamiji won singles titles in Iizuka, Daegu, Paris, St Louis, and became the first and so far only non-Dutchwoman to win the tennis Masters title. Kamiji won doubles titles with Sharon Walraven in Pensacola, Sabine Ellerbrock in Iizuka. Ju-Yeon Park in Daegu, Jordanne Whiley in Paris and the Masters. With Ellerbrock in New York and Whiley at Wimbledon, Kamiji was the runner up. During the 2014 season Kamiji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daniel Caverzaschi
Daniel Javier Caverzaschi Arzola (born 11 July 1993) is a Spanish wheelchair tennis player. He has represented Spain in 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics. He won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in the Men's doubles event. Personal Caverzaschi was born on 11 July 1993 in Madrid, missing most of his right leg from the knee down. His family lived in Spain until he was two years old. They moved to United States "because of isfather's job", for the next eight years. He spent most of his childhood in Miami, except for a year in Chicago. Caverzaschi has graduated in economics at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England. There he trained under coach Matt Thomas. At now, he trains at CAR Sant Cugat del Vallés, (Barcelona); and Ciudad de la Raqueta (Madrid). He is sponsored by Vodafone, Madrid Tennis Federation, and Runnymede College, his "old school in Madrid", which provides him financial support. His goal outside of sport is to become a banker. Wheel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Martín De La Puente
Martín de la Puente Riobó (born 22 June 1999) is a Spanish professional wheelchair tennis player. De la Puente is the 2022 US Open doubles champion with Nicolas Peifer and 2023 French Open wheelchair men's doubles finalist with Gustavo Fernandez. He is a former world No. 1 in the doubles rankings, achieved in November 2022. He reached the doubles quarterfinals at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics, and became the second Spanish tennis paralympic player to reach the singles quarterfinals in the 2024 Summer Paralympics, after Daniel Caverzaschi the Games prior; he then became the first one to reach the singles semifinals. At the same Games, he reached the doubles semifinals for the first time for the Spanish tennis paralympic team along with fellow partner Caverzaschi. They won Spain's ever first medal in wheelchair tennis after obtaining a bronze medal in the men's doubles event. De la Puente was born with Proteus syndrome, with fingers on one of his hands larger than on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Takuya Miki
is a Japanese professional wheelchair tennis player. He competed in wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, the 2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the Inte ... and 2024 Summer Paralympics. Career statistics Grand Slam performance timelines Wheelchair singles Wheelchair doubles =Grand Slam tournament finals= Wheelchair doubles: 5 (0 titles, 5 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanada, Takashi 1985 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Japanese wheelchair tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Japan Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
