By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Monday, November 27, 2023
Dana Mathewson turned Santiago’s pink clay into gold street.
San Diego native Mathewson rolled to a pair of gold medals—in girls’s singles and doubles—on the 2023 Parapan American Video games in Santiago, Chile.
Mathewson gained two of the three gold medals Staff USA collected on the Video games. Her singles gold medal qualifies Mathewson for 2024 Paralympics in Paris.
Mathewson scored a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Colombia’s Angelica Bernal within the girls’s singles closing, incomes an automated bid to subsequent summer season’s Paralympic Video games in Paris.
Within the doubles gold medal match, Mathewson and 16-year-old Maylee Phelps (Portland, Ore.) beat Brazil’s Maria Fernanda Alves and Meirycoll Duval in a match that got here down to some key factors within the match tiebreak, 3-6, 6-2 10-8.
“When you get a style of those medals, you need extra,” Mathewson mentioned. “This has been an incredible time.
“I by no means anticipated to be the flag-bearer; I by no means anticipated to get two gold medals. It has been unbelievable.”
Mathewson beforehand began off her milestone week as one in every of Staff USA’s two flag-bearers for the opening ceremony, an honor she shared with judo athlete Ben Goodrich, and when she returns to the U.S., she’ll get married in per week’s time. Mathewson has now gained 4 profession Parapan medals.
The quad doubles crew of David Wagner (Walla Walla, Wash./San Diego) and Andrew Bogdanov (Prescott, Ariz.) rounded out the U.S. medalists with a bronze. Wagner and Bogdanov beat the Colombian crew of Daniel Campaz and Albeiro Moreno, 6-4, 6-4, within the third-place match.
Held each 4 years and one yr forward of the Paralympic Video games, the Parapan American Video games are the most important multi-sport occasion within the Americas.
Picture credit: USTA
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