The Paris 2024 Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis Event runs for nine days from Friday 30 August until Saturday 7 September, a day before the Closing Ceremony.
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis Event will feature 95 players nominated by 28 nations. The final entry list is available here, although Australia’s Heath Davidson has withdrawn due to personal reasons. The draw for all six (men’s, women’s, and quad singles and doubles) Paris 2024 Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis events took place on Tuesday, 27 August.
Paralympics wheelchair tennis medal list
In total, 17 former Paralympic medallists are competing at Paris 2024 – seven in the men’s events (Frederic Cattaneo, Tom Egberink, Joachim Gerard, Alfie Hewett, Stephane Houdet, Gordon Reid and Maikel Scheffers), six in the women’s events (Diede de Groot, Yui Kamiji, Sakhorn Khanthasit, Momoko Ohtani, Lucy Shuker and Aniek van Koot) and four in the quad events (Andy Lapthorne, Sam Schroder, Niels Vink and David Wagner)
Check out the Paralympics wheelchair tennis medal list: Here
Diede de Groot of Netherlands is the only singles champion from Tokyo 2020 who is competing at Paris 2024. Dylan Alcott and Shingo Kunieda, the Tokyo 2020 quad and men’s singles gold medallists respectively, have both retired.
De Groot and Aniek van Koot will defend their women’s doubles title by competing together. De Groot is bidding to become the third player to win the career Golden Slam in women’s doubles multiple times after Esther Vergeer and Van Koot.
