Wheelchair tennis at the 2010 Asian Para Games

Wheelchair Tennis

Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for those who have disabilities in their lower bodies. The size of courts, balls, and rackets are same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis; they use specially designed wheelchairs and the ball may bounce up to two times...

at the 2010 Asian Para Games

2010 Asian Para Games

The 2010 Asian Para Games, also known as the First Asian Para Games, was a parallel sport event for Asian athletes with a disability held in Guangzhou, China...

were held in Tianhe Tennis School, Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, China PR from December 13 to December 18. There were 4 gold medals in this sport.

Medal table

Retrieved from Asian Para Games 2010 Official Website.

1	2	2	0	4
2	2	0	1	3
3	0	1	1	2
3	0	1	1	2
4	0	0	1	1
Total	4	4	4	12

Medalists

Men's singles
Men's doubles	Shingo Kunieda Shingo Kunieda is a Japanese number one singles wheelchair tennis player. Kunieda is a right-hander whose favorite surface is hard court. His coach is Hiromichi Maruyama. His training base is the Tennis Training Center in Kashiwa.... Satoshi Saida Satoshi Saida is a Japanese pioneering wheelchair tennis player and 2004 Summer Paralympics gold medalist .Saida, a big baseball enthusiast in his childhood, lost his left leg because of illness. At first, he used to play wheelchair basketball with his friends...	Lee Ha-Gel Oh Sang-Ho	Suthi Khlongrua Sumrerng Kruamai
Women's singles
Women's doubles	Sakhorn Khanthasit Ratana Techamaneewat	Kanako Domori Yuko Okabe	Lu Chia-Yi Wu Yi-Shan

Finals


Score	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
2–0		6–0	6–0
2–0		6–0	6–0
0–2		1–6	2–6
0–2		6–7	0–6
0–2		3–6	1–6
2–0		6–0	6–0
0–2		0–6	0–6
2–0		6–2	6–0
0–2		3–6	3–6

Bronze Medal Match – December 18
	Score	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
	0–2		6–7	2–6

Consolation

Men's doubles

Bronze Medal Match – December 17
	Score	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
	2–0		6–1	6–4

Women's singles

Bronze Medal Match – December 18
	Score	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
	2–0		6–3	7–5

Women's doubles


Score	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
2–0		6–3	6–4
2–0		6–0	6–0
2–0		6–0	6–0
2–0		6–4	6–3
2–0		6–3	6–0
2–0		6–0	6–1
2–0		6–1	6–0
2–0		6–1	6–2
2–0		6–0	6–1
0–2		3–6	3–6

Rank	W	L	Sets W/L	Games W/L
	4	0	8 / 0	48 / 12
	3	1	6 / 2	42 / 21
	2	2	4 / 4	28 / 31
4	1	3	2 / 6	29 / 37
5	0	4	0 / 8	2 / 48

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