WHEELCHAIR TENNIS NEWS
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Macron's tennis tryout
French President joins Paralympic champion to try out wheelchair tennis in Paris.
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Yui Kamiji wins eighth successive title of 2017
World No.1 extends wheelchair tennis unbeaten run to 28 matches after winning Toyota Open International.
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Kamiji is wheelchair tennis' world No.1 again
Japanese reclaims top spot after winning women's French Open.
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Hewett and Kamiji win Roland Garros titles
GB's Hewett upsets defending champion Fernandez to win maiden men's Grand Slam title.
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World’s best set to compete at French Open
Fernandez and Buis to defend titles at Roland Garros in second Grand Slam of 2017.
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Buis confident of defending Roland Garros title
Marjolein Buis hoping for another special week at the French Open where she won her first Grand Slam title.
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Yui Kamiji claims sixth successive title
World No.2 continues her winning run at Daegu Open to become strong favourite at Roland Garros.
How wheelchair tennis is developing in France
Jean-Pierre Limborg, pioneer of wheelchair tennis in France, gave an insight into how the sport has grown over the last decades.
Monthly preview: June 2017
Check out all the events that will headline this month in Para sport.
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Para sport in review: May 2017
Check out what went on in the Paralympic Movement during May.
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Fernandez, Kamiji crowned champions in South Korea
Argentina’s world No.4 and Japan’s No.2 won the men’s and women’s titles respectively, at the Korea Open on 27 May.
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Dylan Alcott wins third Japan Open quad singles title
Great Britain’s Gordon Reid and Japan’s Yui Kamiji sealed the men’s and women’s titles in the third ITF Super Series of the year.
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Kunieda to meet Fernandez at Japan Open
Japan’s three-time Paralympic gold medallist will face Argentina’s 2017 Australian Open champion in the second round.
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Robinson Mendez retires from wheelchair tennis
Chile’s four-time Paralympian will now devote himself entirely to Para canoe, hoping to qualify for Tokyo 2020.
Rodrigues wins first ITF 2 European title
Brazil’s world No.27 claimed the 2017 Internazionali d’Italia title in Rome following a 6-4, 6-0 win over Austria’s Nico Langmann in the final.
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British Paralympians inducted into Stoke Mandeville Hall of Fame
Isabel Newstead, Jane Blackburn, Peter Norfolk and Simon Munn join the list of legends.
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Stephane Houdet keeps proving age is just a number
Fresh from winning another World Team Cup title for France, the No.1 describes what is like to continue competing at 46 years old.
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France claim eighth World Team Cup men’s title
No.1 Stephane Houdet and No.5 Nicolas Peifer won their second consecutive title, whilst Great Britain took the quad title on 7 May in Alghero, Italy.
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China stuns the Netherlands to win women´s title
After a surprising victory in Italy, China became just the third nation other than the Netherlands to win the wheelchair tennis World Team Cup.
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World Team Cup finalists decided
France will face Great Britain and the Netherlands will meet China in the men’s and women’s finals at the wheelchair tennis event in Alghero, Italy.