ABSTRACT
Similar to the regular game of tennis, wheelchair tennis is played according to rules whereby opponents hit a ball with a racket over a three-foot high net in the middle of a court, with a goal of winning points by dominating play. Court size, racket size and tennis balls are all the same except that, in wheelchair tennis, the ball is allowed to bounce twice; that second bounce not necessarily needing to land within the court area. The wheelchairs themselves are called “sport chairs”, with the wheels adapted to help with balance and mobility, and the sport accepts a wide range of different forms of physical disability in its determinations of eligibility. 1
