| Wheelchair tennis at the XVII Paralympic Games | |
|---|---|
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| Venue | Roland Garros Stadium |
| Dates | 30 August to 7 September 2024 |
| Competitors | 96 |
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. [1]
An NPC can enter a total maximum of eleven qualification slots: [2]
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. [3]
§ : qualified for doubles
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles | Tokito Oda  Japan | Alfie Hewett  Great Britain | Gustavo Fernández  Argentina |
| Men's doubles |  Great Britain Alfie Hewett Gordon Reid |  Japan Tokito Oda Takuya Miki |  Spain Martín de la Puente Daniel Caverzaschi |
| Women's singles | Yui Kamiji Japan | Diede de Groot  Netherlands | Aniek van Koot Netherlands |
| Women's doubles | Japan Yui Kamiji Manami Tanaka |  Netherlands Diede de Groot Aniek van Koot |  China Guo Luoyao Wang Ziying |
| Quad singles | Niels Vink Netherlands | Sam Schröder Netherlands | Guy Sasson  Israel |
| Quad doubles | Netherlands Sam Schröder Niels Vink | Great Britain Andy Lapthorne Gregory Slade |  South Africa Donald Ramphadi Lucas Sithole |
* Host nation (France)
| Rank | NPC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 |  Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
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