Greg Crump is an Australian wheelchair tennis coach. He was selected to coach

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at the

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in the wheelchair tennis.

Wheelchair tennis

Crump began coaching wheelchair tennis in the late 1980s. One of the first competitors he coached was Daniela Di Toro, who took up the sport when she was thirteen years old at Crump's suggestion. He was the coach of the Australian national team in 2008. At the

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, he coached

Daniela Di Toro Daniela "Danni" Di Toro (born 16 October 1974) is an Australian wheelchair tennis and table tennis player. Di Toro was the 2010 French Open doubles champion and has also been the Masters double champion. In singles, Di Toro is the former world ...

. He was the coach of the Australian national team in 2009. He encouraged Australian wheelchair basketball player Melanie Hall to make the switch from that sport to wheelchair tennis following the

. He was the coach of the Australian national team in 2010. Players he worked with in 2010 included Henry De Cure, Keegan Oh-Chee, Stephan Rochecouste and Anderson Parker. In August 2010, he ran a wheelchair tennis coaching clinic in

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. It was the first clinic of its kind to be held in the country. He was the coach for the Australian national team again in 2011. As a coach of the national that year, he coached Keegan Oh-Chee at an event. He coached the national team at a World Cup event played at the University of Pretoria in South Africa in 2011. In 2011, he hosted a clinic at the Broadview Tennis Club in Adelaide, South Australia that was made possible by the ITF wheel-chair Tennis Department. Players from around the region attended the clinic he hosted, including one from Sri Lanka. He was the Australian national team coach in 2012. He supported the creation of the 2012 Australian Wheelchair Tennis Tour. In 2012, he was coaching Luba Josevski, Michael Dobbie, Matthew Ingram He was selected to coach

at the

in the wheelchair tennis.

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