Winners topped at nationwide wheelchair tennis championships | 13 November, 2023 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Anderson Parker has achieved a brand new milestone in his return to tennis, sweeping nationwide titles for the primary time.

The 25-year-old from Sydney received the open males’s singles and doubles titles on the 2023 Australian Wheelchair Tennis Nationwide Championships, held at Melbourne Park from 10-12 November.

Parker was a top-ranked junior earlier than taking a seven-year break from the game. His comeback, which started in 2022, continues to achieve spectacular momentum.

He secured victory within the open males’s singles division with a hard-fought 2-6 6-1 7-6(1) triumph in opposition to high seed Ben Weekes within the remaining.

Weekes, a five-time Paralympian, was the defending champion and is at present ranked 54 locations greater within the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour world rankings.

Parker teamed with Victorian Martyn Dunn to assert the open males’s doubles title, beating Victorian teenagers Riley Dumsday and Saalim Naser 6-2 6-3 within the remaining.

“It was a improbable match with some thrilling outcomes,” Event Director Daniel O’Neill mentioned.

“To see Anderson Parker’s first win within the males’s singles remaining, having solely simply returned to the game over the previous 18 months, was spectacular.

“Hayley Slocombe stays one of many nation’s greatest gamers on the ladies’s facet, whereas Heath Davidson received one other Australian title within the quad division.”

For successful the open singles divisions, Parker and Slocombe earn wildcards into an Australian Wheelchair Summer time Sequence occasion in Melbourne throughout January 2024.

O’Neill was additionally impressed with the fierce competitors throughout the junior occasions.

“We’ve got a terrific group of junior gamers coming by way of the high-performance applications, so it’s nice to see their continued improvement,” he mentioned.

“Yassin Hill, a 16-year-old from Victoria, received the junior singles occasion for the primary time and Jin Woodman, a 14-year-old additionally from Victoria, showcased his potential with runner-up leads to each the junior singles and quad occasions.

“Sonny Rennison (aged 11) and Arlo Shawcross (aged 12) have been others to carry out extraordinarily nicely over the weekend.”