Jin Woodman and Heath Davidson current the Wheelchair Summer season 2025 Collection | December 13, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

The 2025 Australian Wheelchair Summer season Collection will welcome greater than 88 gamers from greater than 18 nations to Victoria in January.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 13 December 2024 | Camille Russo

The 2025 Australian Wheelchair Summer season Collection will welcome greater than 88 gamers from greater than 18 nations to Victoria in January.

To formally open the occasion, native Hume participant and 15-year Australian Open wild card holder Jin Woodman joined Paralympian Heath Davidson to launch the Summer season of Wheelchair Tennis on the Hume Tennis and Group Centre.

Summer season wheelchair occasions embrace the Victorian Wheelchair Tennis Open (ITF1) from 6-10 January, the Melbourne Wheelchair Open (Tremendous Collection) from 12-17 January and the Australian Open Wheelchair Championships (Grand Slam) from 20-25 January.

“I at all times like to return out to Hume and play within the two weeks main as much as the AO,” Davidson mentioned.

“Tennis Australia has an awesome program of excellence. Within the final three years we’ve got gained two World Cups for juniors and this yr we got here second. It is a credit score to all younger gamers who come this fashion like Jin – he isn’t afraid on the pitch and works arduous.”

Reflecting on his greatest yr but, Woodman mentioned: “This yr I made the US Open juniors, it was superb. The Crew World Cup in Turkey was additionally an awesome expertise to journey with out a dad or mum, counting on the coaches and myself.

“The Australian Open will probably be superb as it’s my first. I can even love all of the Aussie followers that may come out to look at us. I am proud to signify Australia at house.”

Reflecting on the expansion of wheelchair tennis, Tennis Chief Government Officer Tom Larner mentioned: “Important funding from Tennis Australia has gone into wheelchair tennis, with a selected deal with rising prize cash on the Australian Open wheelchair occasions annually.

“This yr noticed a file variety of entries within the Australian Wheelchair Summer season Collection with over 100 athletes on web site, and it is younger gamers like Jin who’re driving this progress.

“Australia has very younger gamers at ITF degree, and we presently have 14 gamers on the elite junior pathway – double the variety of 5 years in the past. “Inclusion is the inspiration of our sport so we’ve got loads to be happy with as we proceed to create alternatives and make investments on this space,” continued Larner.

The Australian Open 2025 can even characteristic the primary junior wheelchair championship, in addition to the primary wheelchair qualifying occasion for males’s, girls’s and quads.

Australian Wheelchair Summer season Collection 2025

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