Büşra Fatma Ün (born 19 May 1994) is a Turkish female

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player.

Early years

Büşra Ün was born in

İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

. At the age of six-and-half-months, her parents noticed that she has no feeling at her feet. She was diagnosed with

neuroblastoma Neuroblastoma (NB) is a type of cancer that forms in certain types of nerve tissue. It most frequently starts from one of the adrenal glands but can also develop in the head, neck, chest, abdomen, or Vertebral column, spine. Symptoms may include ...

having a malignant tumor in her right

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. After one-and-half-year-long

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and two surgeries, the tumor was removed. However, due to damaged nerves, she became

paraplegic Paraplegia, or paraparesis, is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek () "half-stricken". It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition that affects the neura ...

. Currently, she is a student of

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Ege University Ege University or Aegean University () is a public research university in Bornova, İzmir. It was founded in 1955 with the faculties of Medicine and Agriculture. It is the first university to start courses in İzmir and the fourth oldest unive ...

in İzmir.

Playing career

She began with table tennis playing, and then switched over to wheelchair tennis in February 2009 as she was studying in the high school's fourth grade in Buca. She plays right handed. She is Turkish champion in the women's and junior's category. In 2010, she won the Balkan Championship. She is on the third place in the world's under-18 ranking. In the world's list, she climbed up to the 30th place. Ün obtained a quota spot at the

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. She is so the first ever Turkish wheelchair tennis player to represent her country at the Paralympics.

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* * 1994 births Living people Turkish female tennis players Turkish wheelchair tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Turkey Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Ege University alumni People with paraplegia Sportspeople from İzmir 21st-century Turkish sportswomen {{Turkey-tennis-bio-stub