Wheelchair Tennis is one of the fastest-growing wheelchair sports in the world.

Did you know?

• There are more than 120 tournaments on the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour worldwide.
• The ITF organises the annual equivalent to the Davis and Fed Cups for Wheelchair Tennis: the Invacare World Team Cup.
• A weekly ranking list is published on the ITF website.

Key facts

Venue: Eton Manor
Dates: Saturday 1 September –Saturday 8 September
Gold medals up for grabs: 6
Athletes: 112

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. The quad events, introduced at the 2004 Games, are for players affected in three or more limbs.

The sport follows similar rules to Tennis, with one key exception: the ball is allowed to bounce twice. The first bounce must be within the boundaries of the court, but the second is allowed to fall outside the court. Matches are played over three sets.

Wheelchair Tennis at the Games

After featuring as an exhibition sport at the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games, Wheelchair Tennis was introduced as a full medal event at Barcelona in 1992. Since then, the exciting sport has developed rapidly and is now played in more than 70 countries. 

Get involved

Wheelchair Tennis is a fast-growing participation sport in the UK, and British players are among the best in the world.

Find out where to get started by contacting The British Tennis Foundation. For more information, see the website of the International Tennis Federation

Find out how to get involved on the Parasport website. You could also visit the sites of Paralympic Sport TV and the International Paralympic Committee.

The Active Places website also allows you to search for facilities in England.

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