| Wheelchair tennis – Quad singles at the XII Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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 Paralympic wheelchair tennis | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Athens Olympic Tennis Centre | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 19–26 September 2004 | ||||||||||||
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| Quad singles | |
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| Wheelchair tennis at the 2004 Summer Paralympics |
The quad singles wheelchair tennis competition at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens was held from 19 September to 26 September at the Athens Olympic Tennis Centre.
| Semifinals | Final (gold medal match) | ||||||||||||
 Peter Norfolk (GBR) | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||
 Bas van Erp (NED) | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Peter Norfolk (GBR) | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||
 David Wagner (USA) | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Nick Taylor (USA) | 6 | 5 | |||||||||||
| David Wagner (USA) | 7 | 7 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||||
| Bas van Erp (NED) | 6 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Nick Taylor (USA) | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | ||||||||||||||||||
| P Norfolk (GBR) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| K Whalen (USA) | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| P Norfolk (GBR) | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
 S Hunter (CAN) | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
 H Toma (JPN) | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| S Hunter (CAN) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| P Norfolk (GBR) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| B van Erp (NED) | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| M Eccleston (GBR) | 3 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
 G Polidori (ITA) | 6 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| M Eccleston (GBR) | 1 | 6 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| B van Erp (NED) | 6 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
 P Araya (CHI) | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| B van Erp (NED) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | ||||||||||||||||||
| N Taylor (USA) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| R Humphreys (GBR) | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| N Taylor (USA) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| M de Beer (NED) | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| M de Beer (NED) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| B McPhate (CAN) | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| N Taylor (USA) | 6 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| D Wagner (USA) | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
 S Weinberg (ISR) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| M Takashima (JPN) | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| S Weinberg (ISR) | 5 | 7 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| D Wagner (USA) | 7 | 5 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| A Raffaele (ITA) | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| D Wagner (USA) | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2004 Summer Paralympics, the 12th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Athens, Greece from 17 to 28 September 2004. 3,808 athletes from 136 countries participated. During these games 304 World Records were broken with 448 Paralympic Games Records being broken across 19 different sports. 8,863 volunteers worked along the Organizing Committee.
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.
Wheelchair Tennis at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was staged at the Olympic Tennis Centre from September 19 to September 26.
Esther Mary Vergeer is a Dutch former professional wheelchair tennis player. Vergeer won 43 major titles, 23 year-end championships, and seven Paralympic gold medals. She was the world No. 1 in women's wheelchair singles from 1999 to her retirement in February 2013. Vergeer went undefeated in singles for ten straight years, ending her career on a winning streak of 470 matches. She has often been named the most dominant player in professional sports.
Shraga Weinberg is an Israeli wheelchair tennis player.
Peter Robert Norfolk OBE is a British wheelchair tennis player. Following a motorbike accident which left him paraplegic, he uses a wheelchair. He took up tennis and following a further spinal complication in 2000, he began competing in the quad division. He is nicknamed The Quadfather.
Dylan Martin Alcott, is an Australian former wheelchair tennis player, former wheelchair basketball player, radio host, actor, foundation founder, business owner and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, known colloquially as the Australian "Rollers". At the age of 17, he became the youngest Rollers gold medal winner, at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and was the youngest to compete in the wheelchair basketball competition. In 2014, he returned to wheelchair tennis with the aim of participating at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, at which he won gold medals in the Men's Quad Singles and Doubles. He was named the 2016 Australian Paralympian of the Year due to his outstanding achievements at Rio.
David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quad division. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand. He is currently ranked number three in the world in singles and number two in doubles.
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.
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.
The women's singles wheelchair tennis competition at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens was held from 19 September to 26 September at the Athens Olympic Tennis Centre.
Andrew David Lapthorne is a British wheelchair tennis player. He took up wheelchair tennis in 2005, and entered the quad division in 2008. He is active in both singles and doubles tournaments, and has 17 grand slam titles in singles and doubles. He competed at his first Summer Paralympics at London 2012 in the quad singles and in the quad doubles, in which he won a silver medal and is now a three-time Paralympic medallist and British no.1 Quad tennis player, who started playing wheelchair tennis at the age of ten.
Noam Gershony is an Israeli wheelchair tennis player. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won a gold medal in Quad singles and shared a bronze in Quad doubles with Shraga Weinberg.
The men's singles wheelchair tennis competition at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens was held from 19 September to 26 September at the Athens Olympic Tennis Centre.
The quad doubles wheelchair tennis competition at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens was held from 19 September to 26 September at the Athens Olympic Tennis Centre.
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.
Bas van Erp was a Dutch wheelchair tennis player.
Heath Arthur Davidson, is an Australian wheelchair tennis player. Davidson is a four-time Australian Open doubles champion, all partnering Dylan Alcott. He has also won two Paralympic medals, a gold and silver in doubles at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, respectively. He has been selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympics, his third Games.
Wheelchair tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan took place at the Ariake Tennis Park from 27 August to 4 September 2021.
