Olympic & Paralympic Games
London, UK
Olympics: 27th July -12th Aug 2012; Paralympics: 29th Aug - 9th Sept 2012
Wheelchair Tennis is one of 20 sports that make up the Paralympic programme for the London 2012 Games. After featuring as an exhibition sport at the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games, Wheelchair Tennis was introduced as a full medal event at Barcelona in 1992. Since then, the sport has developed rapidly and is now played in more than 70 countries.
The Wheelchair Tennis competition consists of six medal events: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, quad singles and quad doubles. The quad events, introduced at the 2004 Games, are for players affected in three or more limbs.
Find out more about Wheelchair Tennis in the UK.
Channel 4 has been awarded the UK television rights for the London 2012 Paralympic Games and has committed to delivering over 150 hours of coverage during Games time. They are also covering disability sport in the run-up, through a series of documentaries and the weekly magazine programme That Paralympic Show.
BBC Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra have the radio rights for the Paralympic Games. Up to 25 hours of programmes and news from the London Games are set to be broadcast on 5 live, with commentary and analysis on 5 live sports extra.
Venue: Eton Manor, Olympic ParkDates: 1 - 8 September, with medal matches and finals starting on 5 September.
Surface: Hard (Decoturf)
Draw size: 64 Men’s Singles, 32 Women’s Singles, 16 Quad Singles. There will also be Men's Doubles (32 pairs), Women's Doubles (max 16 pairs) and Quad Doubles (max 8 pairs) events.
London 2012 Guide to Eton ManorWebcam images from Eton Manor
Men’s Singles: Shingo Kunieda (JPN)Women’s Singles: Esther Vergeer (NED)Quad Singles: Peter Norfolk (GBR)Men’s Doubles: Stephane Houdet & Michael Jeremiasz (FRA)Women’s Doubles: Korie Homan & Sharon Walraven (NED)Quad Doubles: Nick Taylor & David Wagner (USA)