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at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in

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, Japan took place at the Ariake Tennis Park from 27 August to 4 September 2021. The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the

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. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021. Patrick Selepe became the first disabled umpire to officiate in a wheelchair Paralympic event.

Qualification

* There are 56 male (singles and doubles), 32 female (singles and doubles) and 16 quad (singles and doubles). * The qualification slots are awarded to the individual athletes, not to the

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and they should not exceed the maximum total quota allocation of 11 qualification slots. ** A maximum of eight qualification slots (4 male, 4 female) can be allocated to men's and women's singles events respectively. ** A maximum of three in the quads' class. ** A maximum of two men's or women's teams to represent the doubles' events. ** One team, of mixed gender, is eligible to compete in the quads doubles. * An athlete has to have an official ranking on the Wheelchair Tennis Singles World Ranking List dated 7 June 2021. * An athlete would be eligible to qualify if they have been in a final nominated team and was present in the

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events including qualifying and Junior World Team Cup for a minimum of two years between 2017 and 2020. * An athlete would have to fulfill the minimum requirements in the ITF's Tokyo 2020 Wheelchair Tennis Regulations which will be published in late 2021. * The ITF and the IPC have to consider on bipartite commission invitation athletes who don't have an official ranking but as long as they have competed in one ITF Wheelchair Tennis competition between 1 January 2018 to 6 June 2021, they will be eligible to compete.

Schedule

Medal table

Medalists

References

External links

Results book
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