Kai Schramayer

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Kai Schramayer
Country (sports)Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Residence Vancouver, Canada
Born (1968-01-10) 10 January 1968 (age 56)
Heidelberg, Germany
Turned pro1990
Retired2005
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Career titles52
Highest rankingNo. 1 (10 August 1993)
Other tournaments
Masters W (1997)
Paralympic Games Silver medal icon.svg (1992)
Doubles
Career titles53
Highest rankingNo. 2 (19 October 1999)
Masters Doubles W (2002)
Medal record
Paralympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1992 Barcelona Men's singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1992 Barcelona Men's doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2000 Sydney Men's singles

Kai Schramayer (born 10 January 1968) is a retired German wheelchair tennis player who competed at international level events. He was a former World no. 1 in the sport and is a double Paralympic medalist. [1]

Schramayer was a very sporty person: he played ice hockey, volleyball, basketball and soccer at a young age and pursued his interest in tennis aged six years old. He lost his left femur to bone cancer when he was fourteen years old after his mother noticed that her son complained about pain in his leg when going up stairs. After his leg got amputated, he went back to playing tennis with a prosthesis. He soon discovered wheelchair tennis and played competitively in the later 1980s and won many wheelchair doubles titles in 1990 with his partner Randy Snow. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "Kai Schramayer - ITF Profile". International Tennis Federation. 14 October 2020.
  2. "Cancer Can't Keep Him Off the Court: Tennis: Schramayer, who had his left amputated, is the world's top-ranked wheelchair tennis player". Los Angeles Times. 17 October 1993.
  3. "How To Help Someone After Disability? Teach Them Tennis". Folks Magazine. 10 January 2020.