| Wheelchair tennis – Women's doubles at the IX Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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 Paralympic wheelchair tennis | |||||||||||||
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| Wheelchair tennis at the 1992 Summer Paralympics |
The women's doubles wheelchair tennis competition at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final (gold medal match) | ||||||||||||||||||
 Monique van den Bosch (NED) Chantal Vandierendonck (NED) | ||||||||||||||||||||
BYE | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Monique van den Bosch (NED) Chantal Vandierendonck (NED) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Christine Blackmore (GBR) Janet McMorran (GBR) | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Christine Blackmore (GBR) Janet McMorran (GBR) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Randa Hinson (AUS) Sue Twelftree (AUS) | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Monique van den Bosch (NED) Chantal Vandierendonck (NED) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Nancy Olson (USA) Lynn Seidemann (USA) | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Marlin Miller (ISR) Tiki Aharoni (ISR) | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nancy Olson (USA) Lynn Seidemann (USA) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nancy Olson (USA) Lynn Seidemann (USA) | 6 | 6 | Bronze medal match | |||||||||||||||||
 Oristelle Marx (FRA) Arlette Racineux (FRA) | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
BYE | Christine Blackmore (GBR) Janet McMorran (GBR) | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Oristelle Marx (FRA) Arlette Racineux (FRA) | Oristelle Marx (FRA) Arlette Racineux (FRA) | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designed wheelchairs, and the ball may bounce up to two times, where the second bounce may also occur outside the court.
Randy Snow was the first Paralympian to be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and the first paralympian to win medals in three different sports: track, basketball and tennis.
Lucy Shuker is a British wheelchair tennis player who is currently the highest ranked woman in the sport in Britain. A previous singles & doubles National Champion, Lucy has represented Great Britain at three successive Paralympic Games, twice winning a bronze medal in the women's doubles and is former World Doubles Champion and World Team Cup Silver Medallist amongst a number of other National and International successes.
Wheelchair tennis was first contested at the Summer Paralympics as a demonstration sport in 1988, with two events being held. It became an official medal-awarding sport in 1992 and has been competed at every Summer Paralympics since then. Four events were held from 1992 to 2000, with quad events in both singles and doubles added in 2004.
Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum is an Israeli athlete who has won 30 Paralympic medals. She has represented Israel at the Summer Paralympic Games seven times and has competed in athletics, swimming, table tennis, and wheelchair basketball at the Games.
Mick "Michael" Connell is an Australian wheelchair tennis player. He won a silver medal in the Men's Singles event at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics. He participated without winning any medals at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics. In 1996, he won the men's doubles at the Australian Open with his partner, David Hall. At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, he won a silver medal in the Men's Doubles event with Hall.
Australia competed at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona for physically and vision-impaired athletes. Immediately after the Barcelona Games, the city of Madrid held events for athletes with an intellectual disability. The Madrid results are not included in International Paralympic Committee Historical Results Database. Australia finished 7th in the total medal count winning 76 medals. Australia competed in 13 sports and won medals in 3 sports – swimming, athletics and weightlifting. Australia finished first in the medal tally at the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid.
Wheelchair tennis events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics were held between 1 and 9 September at Eton Manor, London.
Wheelchair tennis first entered the Summer Paralympic Games in 1988 as a demonstration sport and as a full medal sport at the 1992 Barcelona Games. Australia has competed at every Paralympic wheelchair tennis competition. There are two categories of medals - open division and quad division.
Wheelchair tennis classification is the classification system for wheelchair tennis designed to bring fair play for all competitors. Classification is overseen by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and carried out by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
Jordanne Joyce Whiley MBE is a British retired wheelchair tennis player. Aged 14, she became Britain's youngest ever national women's singles champion in wheelchair tennis. She has osteogenesis imperfecta as does her father, Keith, who was also a Paralympian and won a bronze medal in 1984 in New York. As well as the 2015 US Open in wheelchair singles, Whiley has won 9 Grand Slam doubles titles, and she & Japanese Yui Kamiji are the fourth team in women's wheelchair doubles to complete the Calendar Year Grand Slam. Whiley was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 Queens Birthday Honours list for services to wheelchair tennis.
The men's doubles wheelchair tennis competition at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona.
Elena Jacinto Vélez is a Spanish wheelchair tennis player, whose best world ranking has been 24th. She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She trains with and is a doubles partner with fellow Spaniard, Lola Ochoa Ribes.
Wheelchair tennis events at the 2016 Summer Paralympics were held between 8 and 16 September at Olympic Tennis Centre, Rio. This was the seventh full Paralympic wheelchair tennis competition since the event was introduced in 1992, having been a demonstration event in 1988.
Suzanne Wendy Twelftree was an Australian wheelchair tennis player and Paralympic powerlifter.
Chantal Vandierendonck is a Dutch former professional wheelchair tennis player. Vandierendonck won various wheelchair tennis championships held by the International Tennis Federation and multiple Paralympic medals from 1988 to 1996. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2014.
Monique Kalkman-Van den Bosch is a Dutch former professional wheelchair tennis and table tennis player. Monique competed at the Paralympics in 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996. In 2017, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Diede de Groot is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player who is the current world No. 1 in both singles and doubles.
Laurent Giammartini is a French wheelchair tennis player. At the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in Barcelona, Spain, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event together with Thierry Caillier and the bronze medal in the men's singles event. He also represented France at the 1988, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics. He did not win a medal at these events.
