Paralympic Sports A-Z: Wheelchair Tennis

Published: Apr 07, 2016 Duration: 00:01:38 Category: Sports

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Wheelchair Tennis is a technical and tactical sport, very similar to its Olympic counterpart and is played by athletes in more than 100 countries. The most significant difference to Olympic tennis is the ‘two-bounce rule”, whereby a player can allow the ball to bounce twice and must return it before a third bounce. The second bounce can be inside or outside the court boundaries. Matches are the best of three sets. The first player to reach six games by a margin of two, wins the set. As with the able-bodied version, if the set is tied at 5-5, one of the players must win 7-5. If the score is 6-6, a tie-break is used to decide the set. The wheelchair tennis competition consists of six medal events: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, quad singles and quad doubles. Players use sports wheelchairs with wheels adapted to allow better balance and mobility. As with all Paralympic sports, classification in wheelchair tennis is based on the principle that an athlete has a medically diagnosed, permanent impairment. For wheelchair tennis, this impairment must be physical. Athletes whose impairment affects up to two limbs, compete in the men’s and women’s ‘open’ competitions, and athletes whose impairment affects three or more limbs compete in the quad division which is a mixed gender division.

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