Gemma Stevenson is no stranger to tennis. When she was young she played standing tennis all through school and as an adult chose a career in sports reporting with a big focus on tennis. In 2016 Gemma was involved in a car accident and developed dystonia.
How Chris’s new chair had such a big impact on his tennis. Chris Overend first tried wheelchair tennis at Portsmouth Tennis Centre, in one of the sports chairs they had there.
Ruben Harris started his tennis journey when he was 11 by joining his local monthly wheelchair club. He had only been to three or four sessions when the opportunity to go along to the 2018 British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships came along.
In this case study, we chat to Rosie Pybus, VI Tennis Player to hear about how the DMTT has helped her
DMTT recently supported Andrew Penney’s “Journey Back to Tennis” with a grant towards a tennis wheelchair. 15 year old Andrew, a sport teenager keen on tennis and cricket was left using a wheelchair after forgetting how to walk due to amnesia triggered when he suffered extreme pain after a routine operation back in October 2018.
Here are the case studies of wheelchair tennis players receiving a new wheelchair and what this has meant to them
The UK’s top disability sporting event took place in Sheffield in August, with more than 2,600 athletes competing across 20 events.
Howes Primary School in Coventry has a Hearing Impaired Unit as part of the inclusive school and started running a deaf tennis club as a result of a lack of sporting opportunities for deaf children in Coventry.
Fiona Murphy who has recently set up disability programmes in Devon sent us this update
From Thursday 24th August – Sunday 3rd September, DMTT is running an online auction on eBay to raise funds for our grant funding programme for people with disabilities who play tennis.
