Australia’s team of four for the wheelchair tennis at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics has been announced, including two reigning Paralympic champions in Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson.
Belgium's Joachim Gérard and The Netherlands' Diede de Groot claimed the men's and women's wheelchair tennis singles titles on the closing day of Wimbledon.
Britain's Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid claimed another men's wheelchair tennis doubles title at Wimbledon with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Tom Egberink of The Netherlands and Belgium's Joachim Gerard.
Britain’s Gordon Reid earned a passage to the men’s wheelchair singles final at Wimbledon the hard way by beating Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez, the defending champion from 2019, 6-4, 0-6, 6-2.
Britain’s Jordanne Whiley earned an emphatic victory over defending champion Aniek van Koot of The Netherlands as wheelchair tennis began at the Wimbledon Championships, moving into the semi-finals with a 6-2, 6-0 win.
A total of 31 countries are set to be represented in wheelchair tennis at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, after the International Tennis Federation (ITF) confirmed the qualified players for the Games.
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid - who battled it out in the men’s singles wheelchair tennis singles final at the Rio 2016 Paralympics - are among six players that have been confirmed as part of Britain’s squad for Tokyo 2020.
Britain's Alfie Hewett and Jordanne Whiley have qualified officially for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics as the International Tennis Federation (ITF) world rankings for the Games closed today.
Britain's Alfie Hewett was victorious in the men's wheelchair singles final against top seed Shingo Kunieda of Japan at the French Open at Roland-Garros in Paris, defending his title from last year.
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has partnered with the National Lottery to support its Wheelchair World-Class Programme for the next two years.
Three-time Paralympic medallist Kai Schrameyer has been named as the winner of the International Tennis Federation's (ITF) Brad Parks Award for 2021.
Diede de Groot of The Netherlands, already a winner at the Australian Open in the women’s wheelchair doubles, has added the singles title thanks to a tight, three-set victory over defending champion Yui Kamiji.
Home pair Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson have won a fourth successive Australian Open quad doubles title, overcoming Andy Lapthorne and David Wagner via a tiebreak in the final.
Alfie Hewett is through to a first Australian Open men's wheelchair singles final after beating defending champion and top seed Shingo Kunieda.
Defending champions Yui Kamiji, Dylan Alcott and Shingo Kunieda were all victorious as the wheelchair tennis competition began at the Australian Open.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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