Louise Hunt (born 24 May 1991) is a

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wheelchair tennis Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designed wheelchairs, a ...

player who competes in international level events. She was a former world number 2 in the junior wheelchair tennis singles rankings, she was a bronze medalist at the 2011

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and silver medalist at the 2012 BNP Paribas World Team Cup.

Personal history

Louise started playing wheelchair tennis aged five and became a very successful junior player, winning the girls’ doubles title on three occasions at the Junior Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Tarbes, France. She studied Sports Performance graduating from

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. Hunt is engaged to

Chris Skelley Christopher Peter Skelley (born 9 August 1993) is a British Paralympic judoka who competes in the visually impaired under 100 kg category. In 2016 it was announced that he has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Para ...

; they are due to be married on 3 September 2022 at Holbrook Manor, near Wincanton in Somerset

Tennis career

She reached a career best junior ranking of No. 2 in January 2009. Louise won her first senior women's singles title in Turkey in 2009 and added a second title in Turkey later that year. Louise made her Paralympic debut at

London 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, competing in the women's singles competition, and competed in her first away Games at

Rio 2016 The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. In 2019 the LTA, the governing body of tennis in Britain, hosted international wheelchair tennis in Oxfordshire for the very first time, British number three Hunt beat second seed and three-time national champion Lauren Jones 6–4, 6–4 in the women's singles final after dropping just one game in the earlier rounds.

Filmography

Television

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Louise 1991 births Living people British female tennis players British wheelchair tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players of Great Britain Wheelchair tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics People from the Borough of Swindon 21st-century British women