jueves, 27 de marzo de 2014

Jordanne Whiley

Jordanne Joyce Whiley (born 11 June 1992 in Birmingham) is a wheelchair tennis player and Britain's youngest ever National women's singles champion in wheelchair tennis at the age of 14. She has Osteogenesis imperfecta as does her father, Keith, who was also a Paralympian and won a bronze medal in New York.
Junior career
In 2006 at the age of 14 Whiley claimed her first senior main draw titles when she won the singles and doubles at the Cardiff Wheelchair Tennis tournament, she additionally won the girls title. At the end of 2006 Whiley had moved up from 112 to 48 in the rankings and had won junior titles in Poland and the Netherlands. Whiley won two awards at the British Wheelchair Tennis Association awards: Most improved female player and players' player of the year. Whiley created history in 2007 when she defeated Katharine Kruger in Tarbes. She became the first Briton to claim the Cruyff Foundation Wheelchair Juniors Masters title, Whiley also claimed the doubles...

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