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Wheelchair Tennis At The 2024 Summer Paralympics – Women's Singles
The women's singles wheelchair tennis tournament at the 2024 Paralympic Games in France was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris from 31 August to 6 September 2024. Netherlands' Diede de Groot was the defending gold medalist. She won the silver medal. The gold medal was earned by Yui Kamiji of Japan. The second Dutch player, Aniek van Koot Aniek van Koot (born 15 August 1990) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles. Van Koot has won 26 major titles, having won the 2013 Australian Open, 2013 US Open and 2019 Wimbledon Champion ..., obtained the bronze medal. Seeds ''(final)'' (champion) ''(semifinals)'' ''(semifinals)'' ''(quarterfinals)'' ''(quarterfinals)'' ''(withdrew)'' ''(first round)'' Draw * BPC = Bipartite Invitation Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References {{Authority control Wheelchair tennis at the 2024 Summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Roland Garros
Stade Roland Garros (; 'Roland Garros Stadium') is a complex of tennis courts, including stadiums, located in Paris that hosts the French Open. That tournament, also known as Roland Garros, is a Grand Slam (tennis), major tennis championship played annually in late May and early June. The complex is named after Roland Garros (aviator), Roland Garros (1888–1918), a pioneering French aviator, and was constructed in 1928 to host France's first defence of the Davis Cup. The 13.5-hectare (34-acre) complex contains twenty courts, including three large-capacity stadiums; Les Jardins de Roland Garros, a large restaurant and bar complex; Le Village, the press and VIP area; France's National Training Centre (CNE); and the Tenniseum, a bilingual, multimedia museum of the history of tennis. Dedication The facility is named after Roland Garros (aviator), Roland Garros, a pilot who completed the first solo flight across the Mediterranean Sea, engineer (inventor of the first forward-firing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Krüger
Katharina Krüger (born 3 January 1990) is a German wheelchair tennis player who competes in international level events. In the singles she is a three-time quarterfinalist in the Australian Open and four-time quarterfinalist in the French Open. She has participated at three Summer Paralympic Games and reached the second round in the singles' events. In the doubles she was a runner-up in the 2009 Australian Open where she partnered with Agnieszka Wysocka and lost to Korie Homan and Esther Vergeer in the final. Krüger has used a wheelchair from an early age as she was born with spina bifida Spina bifida (SB; ; Latin for 'split spine') is a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the vertebral column, spine and the meninges, membranes around the spinal cord during embryonic development, early development in pregnancy. T .... References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kruger, Katharina 1990 births Living people German female tennis players German whee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Shuker
Lucy Jessica Shuker (born 28 May 1980) is a British wheelchair tennis player who is currently the highest ranked woman in the sport in Britain. A previous singles and doubles National Champion, Shuker has represented Great Britain at four successive Paralympic Games, twice winning a bronze medal in the women's doubles and is former world doubles champion and World Team Cup silver medallist amongst a number of other national and international successes. In 2008, she competed in the singles and doubles events for the first time in Wheelchair tennis at the Beijing Paralympics. Shuker made history at the London 2012 Paralympics alongside fellow Briton Jordanne Whiley when the pair became the first women to win a medal for Great Britain in wheelchair tennis, coming from match point down to secure bronze in the women's doubles event. Shuker and Whiley retained their bronze medal status in the women's wheelchair doubles at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio. Early life Shuker was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Xiaohui (tennis)
Li Xiaohui (born 28 September 1999) is a Chinese wheelchair tennis player. She is current world number five in singles and world number three in doubles as of March 2025. She is the champion in the wheelchair doubles at the 2025 Australian Open with her teammate Wang Ziying, they were the first all-Chinese pair to win a Grand Slam title in the wheelchair doubles. In 2024, Li ended Diede de Groot Diede de Groot (; born 19 December 1996) is a Dutch professional wheelchair tennis player who was world No. 1 in both singles and doubles. De Groot is a 42-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major champion, having won a record 23 titles in ...'s 145-match winning streak at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup where China won their second World Team Cup title in Antalya. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Xiaohui 1999 births Living people Sportspeople from Shijiazhuang Chinese female tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for China Wheelchair tennis players at the 2024 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Déroulède
Pauline Déroulède (born 30 December 1990) is a French wheelchair tennis player, she was 2023 French Open wheelchair singles quarterfinalist and 2023 French Open wheelchair doubles semi-finalist with Katharina Krüger. Her highest world ranking is world number 17 in singles and world number 11 in doubles. She competed in women's wheelchair tennis singles and doubles at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... Personal life Déroulède started playing tennis when she was eight years old. On 27 October 2018, Déroulède sitting on a stationary scooter at Rue de la Convention in Paris while she was waiting for her girlfriend, Typhaine, who was working in a florist. Pauline and two other pedestrians were struck by an elderly d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MarÃa Florencia Moreno
MarÃa Florencia Moreno (born 30 December 1990) is an Argentine wheelchair tennis player. Moreno is the 2023 French Open doubles runner up with Diede de Groot, she was the first Argentine wheelchair tennis player to qualify for Grand Slam when she competed at the 2023 Australian Open The 2023 Australian Open was a Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park, from 16–29 January 2023. It was the 111th edition of the Australian Open, the 55th in the Open Era, and the first major of the year. The tournament .... In 2000, Moreno lost her right leg after being hit by a truck while going out cycling with a friend. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Moreno, Maria Florencia 1990 births Living people Tennis players from Buenos Aires Argentine female tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Argentina Wheelchair tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saki Takamuro
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglicanism, Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice ... and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse. Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, ''The Watched Pot'', in collaboration with Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbie Breakwell
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Maylee Phelps
Maylee Phelps (born 4 December 2006) is an American wheelchair tennis player of Chinese descent. She was a former junior World number one in January 2023, she has won 2023 US Open and 2024 French Open wheelchair girls' doubles with Ksénia Chasteau. She competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics where she lost in the second round in the singles' competition, she is a Parapan American Games champion in the women's doubles with Dana Mathewson. Phelps was born in China, she was adopted when she was two years old. She was born with spina bifida Spina bifida (SB; ; Latin for 'split spine') is a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the vertebral column, spine and the meninges, membranes around the spinal cord during embryonic development, early development in pregnancy. T .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Phelps, Maylee 2006 births Living people American adoptees Chinese adoptees American tennis players of Chinese descent American sportswomen of Chinese descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinte Bos
Jinte Bos (born 4 September 2002) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player, she was a former world junior number two in 2019. She competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics where she reached the quarterfinals in the women's doubles alongside Lizzy de Greef. Bos was born with hip dysplasia and scoliosis Scoliosis (: scolioses) is a condition in which a person's Vertebral column, spine has an irregular curve in the coronal plane. The curve is usually S- or C-shaped over three dimensions. In some, the degree of curve is stable, while in others .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bos, Jinte 2002 births Living people People from Zaltbommel Dutch female tennis players Dutch wheelchair tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for the Netherlands Wheelchair tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guo Luoyao
Guo Luoyao (; born 11 November 2001) is a Chinese wheelchair tennis player. She competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, winning the bronze medal in the women's doubles event along with Wang Ziying Wang Ziying (born 15 August 1998) is a Chinese wheelchair tennis player, she is currently ranked at world number four as of 20 January 2025. She has competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and is a 2024 French Open singles' and doubles' quarter .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Luoyao, Guo 2001 births Living people Chinese female tennis players 21st-century Chinese sportswomen Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for China Wheelchair tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Tennis players from Beijing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Momoko Ohtani
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. Ohtani has been active in international competitions since 2016. Medical history Ohtani was born healthy. She has been playing tennis since the third grade of primary school. After completing secondary school (high school), she contracted an illness for which she was repeatedly hospitalized. Due to the side effects of medication, she developed cramps in her right leg with paralysis in her right foot, as well as a weakened right hand. Career In September 2016, Ohtani took part in the Osaka Open, an ITF3 wheelchair tournament, where she immediately reached the final. She won her first singles title in 2017 at the Vancouver (Canada) tournament. In 2019, she won the ITF2 tournament Brasilia Open in Brazil. In 2018, Ohtani won the bronze medal in the women's singles at the Asian Para Games in Jakarta. In September 2020, Ohtani took part in a grand slam tournament for the first time, at the US Open. A month later, at Roland Garros, she reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
