A record-breaking 70 gamers gathered at Melbourne Park to compete on the twenty seventh staging of the Australian Tennis Championships, a key initiative in Tennis Australia’s Range and Inclusion nationwide pathway.
Melbourne, VIC, 8 October 2024 | Camille Russo
A record-breaking 70 gamers gathered at Melbourne Park to compete on the twenty seventh staging of the Australian Tennis Championships, a key initiative in Tennis Australia’s Range and Inclusion nationwide pathway.
Australia’s main gamers with an mental impairment (PWII) and gamers who’re Deaf and Onerous of Listening to (DHoH) competed for nationwide titles on the four-day occasion, which ran from 3-6 October.
4-time Grand Slam doubles champion and two-time Paralympian Heath Davidson opened the event, sharing some phrases of recommendation with gamers, households, officers and volunteers.
“Tennis is a sport celebrated for its range, and this occasion is a showcase of that,” Davidson mentioned.
“It’s an opportunity to offer alternatives for all members of our numerous group to play, compete and thrive inside our sport.”
Tennis Australia’s Chief Tennis Officer Tom Larner was additionally thrilled to welcome rivals from throughout seven Australian states and territories to the championships.
“This occasion permits gamers to forge new friendships and create new recollections each on and off the courtroom,” Larner mentioned.
“Thanks to Sport Inclusion Australia, Deaf Sports activities Australia and Particular Olympics Australia for his or her continued help and promotion of not solely this occasion, however all PWII and DHoH tournaments held throughout the nation.”
Queensland’s Archie Graham backed his place as Australia’s main PWII athlete, scooping the boys’s singles and doubles titles within the II-1 division.
South Australia’s Andriana Petrakis defeated New South Wales’ Kelly Wren to win the ladies’s division one title for a second yr in a row.
Western Australia’s Glen Flindell excelled within the DHoH class, claiming the boys’s singles and doubles titles.
2024 Australian Tennis Championship remaining outcomes
Mental Impairment – II-1 Champions
Males’s: Archie Graham (Qld) d Damian Phillips (NSW) 6-1 6-1
Ladies’s: Andriana Petrakis (SA) d Kelly Wren (NSW) 6-3 6-4
Males’s Division 2: Lachlan Mitchell (Vic) d Nick Heames (TAS) 6-0
Males’s Division 3: Orlando Thompson (Qld) d Lev’I Dorward (NSW) 6-1
Ladies’s Division 2: Madison Mcpherson (Vic) d Emma Mangan (Qld) 6-3
Ladies’s Division 3: Amy Potts (Qld) d Sasha Clifford (Qld) 7-6
Down Syndrome – II-2 Champion
Open: Timothy Gould (Qld) d Sai Aman Ramadani (Qld) 6-1
Autism – II-3 Champion
Males’s: Hunter Thompson (Qld) d Simon Ma (NSW) 6-1 6-0
Ladies’s: Amy Potts (Qld) d Sasha Clifford (Qld) 7-6
Deaf and Onerous of Listening to Champion
Males’s: Glen Flindell (WA) d Rhylee Jackson (Qld) 6-0 6-0
