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WHEELCHAIR TENNIS PARALYMPIC 2024 GOOGLE DOODLE:- Wheelchair tennis competitions at the Paris Paralympics 2024 have begun on August 30 and will run until September 7, 2024 at the Roland Garros StadiumThe Paris Paralympics 2024 are on. Google is also celebrating the Paris Paralympic Games 2024 with a series of animated doodles. To celebrate, it is releasing new cartoons every day. For September 3, 2024, Google unveiled interactive artwork related to wheelchair tennis and created its own doodle about wheelchair tennis.
Today’s doodle features Google’s Paralympic-themed birds, adding a lively sense to the ongoing series. As you can see, the doodle shows two bird players trying to hit tennis shots against each otherWheelchair tennis events at the Paralympic 2024 Games in Paris, France, have begun on August 30 and will be played until September 7 at the Roland Garros stadium. Roland Garros is known for its clay courts. The competition includes singles and doubles matches in men’s, women’s and quad categories.
Wheelchair Tennis: This is the history of wheelchair tennis
Wheelchair tennis has become one of the most popular sports in the world. It blends traditional elements of tennis with unique modifications that make it accessible to players with disabilities. The sport was founded in 1976 when Brad Parks, a former acrobatic skier, began experimenting with playing tennis in a wheelchair.
It blends traditional elements of tennis with unique modifications that make it accessible to players with disabilities. The sport was founded in 1976 when Brad Parks, a former acrobatic skier, began experimenting with playing tennis in a wheelchair after he was paralyzed following a skiing accident.
Unlike other adaptive sports, wheelchair tennis is very similar to its traditional counterpart, as players use the same court, rackets, and tennis ball. The primary difference is in the rules, with wheelchair players allowed two bounces before returning the ball, compared to only one bounce for able-bodied athletes.Wheelchair tennis was first featured at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games. Since then, wheelchair tennis has been a major part of adaptive sports competitions. It was included in major tennis tournaments in 2007. This allowed wheelchair tennis matches to be included in traditional tournaments, including the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open Grand Slams.
Israel’s Paralympic tennis stars make their mark in Paris
The world’s top wheelchair athletes, including four Israelis—Adam Berdichevsky, Guy Sasson, Sergei Lysov, and Maayan Zikri—are competing fiercely at Stade Roland Garros.
There will be no men’s and women’s wheelchair or quads tennis at this year’s US Open Tennis Championships—for a very good reason. The world’s best wheelchair tennis players are currently in Paris, France, competing for their countries at the Paralympics.Every four years, the Paralympics wheelchair tournament conflicts with the US Open. (The juniors wheelchair tournament, however, will take place at the US Open at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Queens, New York, as planned
Four Israelis – Adam Berdichevsky, Guy Sasson, Sergei Lysov, and Maayan Zikri – are representing Israel in the wheelchair tennis event, which got under way on Friday, and runs through September 7 on the same courts at Stade Roland Garros, home of the French Open, where Sasson recently won the French Open quads title. The Israelis are off to a great start.
On Friday, Berdichevsky, 40, who took up wheelchair tennis after losing a leg in a 2007 boating accident, defeated Luca Arca of Italy 6-2, 7-5. This was Berdichevsky’s first singles victory at the Paralympics after debuting at Tokyo 2020.
According to Roni Bolotin, former Paralympic swimmer and head of the Israeli delegation, 27 athletes are competing in 10 events, including the team sport of goalball. Bolotin reports that he became disabled and an amputee who also suffered serious eye damage almost 50 years ago in 1968 in a minefield explosion in the Sinai while serving in the IDF. While this is his 12th Paralympics, he exclaimed that “it is still the same excitement!”
This year is very special for the Paralympic Games
This year, these are really special circumstances, and everybody understands the unique role and responsibility of the athletes in these special times for Israel. We understand that we really need to do our best and that our athletes serve as role models for the newly disabled who did their service in Gaza and in the north.”
Sport can be the best tool for rehabilitation and for a full and rewarding life. Our staff is already in the rehab centers to show that sports is a way to have the best life in this situation!”Bolotin is proud of the tennis team playing for Israel in Paris.“They are a combination of two veteran experienced players and two new young ones. The future is before them! They are a great combination!”Bolotin is proud of the tennis team playing for Israel in Paris.They are a combination of two veteran experienced players and two new young ones. The future is before them! They are a great combination!
cannot say how much fun it was to represent my country like this. The win, it was the first time I played in front of a crowd like this, and it felt like I played at home – it was very special. I was very happy I could give some good times to people amid all the bad days.”
Some wheelchair tennis players participating in the Paralympics will receive compensation from the US Open, despite not actually attending. According to the USTA (United States Tennis Association), it gave “players that would have been entered into the US Open via direct acceptance with a player grant to ensure that these players are receiving the equivalent of prize money as compensation.” They detail that a total of $6,244,000 has been set aside for wheelchair tennis grants, player per diems, and hotel payments. Total main draw and qualifying payments for the US Open is $75,000,000.
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