Wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Players were classified according to the type and extent of their disability, and within that system according to gender.

The classification system allows players to compete against others with a similar level of function. All wheelchair tennis athletes must have a major or total loss of function in one or both legs to take part in the sport. further to that, there are two broad categorisations within wheelchair tennis; paraplegic players, with full arm function who play in gendered events, and quadriplegic ("quad tennis") players with restrictions in arm function, where no gender division occurs.

A National Paralympic Committee (NPC) can enter a maximum of four qualified male athletes and four qualified female athletes in the men's and women's singles events, respectively and a maximum of three qualified athletes in the quad singles.

An NPC can enter a maximum of two qualified men's teams and two qualified women's teams, each containing two athletes, in the men's and women's doubles events, respectively, and a maximum of one qualified team of two athletes in the quad doubles – (mixed gender)

An NPC can be allocated a maximum of four male and four female qualification slots for athletes competing in the men's and women's events, and no more than three qualification slots in the quad sport class for a maximum quota allocation of eleven qualification slots per NPC. As such, doubles pairings in the larger teams must be made from the qualified singles players of that team.[1]

The majority of the qualifiers will be chosen by rankings on 23 May 2016. A smaller number will be chosen by the Bipartite Commission, while the host country will also be allocated quota places. A small number of direct qualifiers will also be allocated places from continental games.

Qualifiers for the Paralympic Games 2016 – Wheelchair Tennis[1]
Qualification Method	Men	Women	Quad	Totals
ITF Wheelchair Tennis Regional Games Direct Allocation	2014 Asian Para Games Incheon,  South Korea		N/A	2
	Japan	Thailand
	2015 Parapan American Games Toronto,  Canada		N/A	2
	Argentina	Brazil
ITF Wheelchair Tennis Singles Rankings 23 May 2016	France (4)  Great Britain (4)  Japan (3)  Argentina (2)  Brazil (3)  Spain (3)  Australia  Austria  Netherlands  Poland  South Africa  Belgium  China  Israel  Italy  Sweden	Netherlands (4)  Great Britain (3)  Japan (3)  Brazil (2)  Germany (2)  United States (2)  Chile  China  France  Italy  Russia  South Africa  South Korea  Thailand  Chinese Taipei	Great Britain (3)  Israel (2)  Japan (2)  United States (2)  Italy  Australia  South Africa	68
Bipartite Commission	Canada  Chile  Colombia  Greece  Hungary  South Korea (2)  Malaysia  Sri Lanka  Thailand  United States(2)	Brazil  Chile  China  Colombia  France  Spain  Turkey  United States	Australia  Brazil (2)  United States	24
ITF Wheelchair Tennis Doubles Rankings 23 May 2016	Belgium  Brazil  China  Sweden	N/A	N/A	8

Six events will be contested:

• Men's singles
• Men's doubles
• Women's singles
• Women's doubles
• Quad singles
• Quad doubles

(Quadriplegic class players are not divided by gender)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Gordon Reid  Great Britain	Alfie Hewett  Great Britain	Joachim Gérard  Belgium
Men's doubles	France (FRA) Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	Great Britain (GBR) Alfie Hewett Gordon Reid	Japan (JPN) Shingo Kunieda Satoshi Saida
Women's singles	Jiske Griffioen  Netherlands	Aniek van Koot  Netherlands	Yui Kamiji  Japan
Women's doubles	Netherlands (NED) Jiske Griffioen Aniek van Koot	Netherlands (NED) Marjolein Buis Diede de Groot	Great Britain (GBR) Lucy Shuker Jordanne Whiley
Quad singles	Dylan Alcott  Australia	Andrew Lapthorne  Great Britain	David Wagner  United States
Quad doubles	Australia (AUS) Dylan Alcott Heath Davidson	United States (USA) Nicholas Taylor David Wagner	Great Britain (GBR) Jamie Burdekin Andrew Lapthorne

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	2	2	0	4
2	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
3	Great Britain (GBR)	1	3	2	6
4	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
5	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
6	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		6	6	6	18

Competition lasts from 9 to 16 September.

OC

Opening ceremony

Competition

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Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

September 2016	7 Wed	8 Thu	9 Fri	10 Sat	11 Sun	12 Mon	13 Tue	14 Wed	15 Thu	16 Fri	17 Sat	18 Sun	Gold medals
Wheelchair Tennis	OC						●	●	●  ●	●  ●		CC	6

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