LONDON — (AP) — Naqi Rizvi loves the “absolute freedom” he feels on the tennis court. Winning titles is fun, too. The 34-year-old blind tennis champion is on a mission to not only raise awareness but ...

The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame Class of 2025 ... Her professional career in Japan and tireless advocacy for women’s sports made her a foundational figure in the rise of women ...

Rising tennis star Ruben Harris is dreaming of a place at the LA 2028 Paralympics after winning Junior Wheelchair Player of the Year at the prestigious LTA Tennis Awards, presented by Lexus.

Unlike all other wheelchair and Paralympic sports, which are governed by specific disability sports federations, wheelchair tennis took a bold turn back in 1988, when it was invited to join the ...

Athletes who represent Team USA at the Olympic or Paralympic Games will be eligible ... But for the average Olympic athlete in a sport like table tennis or water polo, they are usually not available.

Paralympic stars took the spotlight at the year-end 2024 Wheelchair Singles Masters and Wheelchair Doubles Masters, which opened on 11 November at the Sportpark Molenbeke in Arnhem. The NEC Wheelchair ...

champion the image of the Paralympic games and athletes as a platform for human rights advocacy and pay them equally for winning medals. Paralympic athletes are painted as role models for people ...

Japan's Yui Kamiji clinched the gold medal in women's wheelchair tennis singles at the Paris ... Kamiji had played in 11 Grand Slam and Paralympic finals since that team, losing to de Groot ...

She attended three Paralympics and won 14 medals in five different sports (para athletics, swimming, archery, table tennis and fencing). Kosmana competed in 12 consecutive Paralympic Games (1972 ...

The Paralympic Games remind the world of fascinating tales of perseverance, advocacy and inclusion ... this from helping students with autism play tennis: Some are good, but the coaching opportuni ...

Yui Kamiji and Manami Tanaka brought Japan its first gold medal in women's Paralympic tennis by winning the doubles gold-medal match over the Netherlands’ Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot at ...