Game, Set, Inclusion: Google’s Wheelchair Tennis Doodle Highlights Paralympic Spirit

A wheelchair tennis doodle was created by google

To commemorate the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, Google has released animated Doodles. Google’s Paralympic-themed birds compete against one another in a stunning Parisian garden in today’s doodle.

Google is celebrating the Paris Paralympics 2024 in a special way today. Google is celebrating these games through new cartoon doodles every day. In today’s doodle, Google has shown its special birds created for the Paralympics, which are making this series even more beautiful. In this doodle, two birds are shown playing tennis with each other. The view behind looks like the beautiful Jardin du Palais Royal or Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.

The 2024 Paralympic Games to be held in Paris, France, also include wheelchair tennis, which will run from August 30 to September 7 at the Roland Garros Stadium. This stadium is known for its clay court. The competition includes singles and doubles matches in the men’s, women’s, and quads categories. National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) have special rules for the participation of athletes, under which each NPC can get a maximum of 11 qualification slots. This includes a maximum of four male and four female athletes for singles events, three for quad singles, two teams each for men’s and women’s doubles, and one team for quad doubles.

These openings are granted straightforwardly to the competitors, Furthermore, each participant must be ranked in the wheelchair tennis singles world ranking. Furthermore, competitors probably contended in a World Group Cup occasion no less than two times somewhere in the range of 2021 and 2024, once in 2023 or 2024. Due to the unique combination of traditional tennis elements and wheelchair tennis variations, wheelchair tennis has emerged as one of the most global sports.

When paralyzed skier Brad Parks experimented with playing tennis in a wheelchair in 1976, the sport was born. Parks had been paralyzed in a skiing accident. Wheelchair tennis is very similar to its traditional counterpart, unlike other adaptive sports, in that players use the same courts, rackets, and tennis balls. One significant contrast among unique and ordinary tennis is that in exceptional tennis, players are permitted to bob the ball two times.

Since its 1992 Paralympic debut at the Barcelona Games, wheelchair tennis has played a significant role in adaptive sports competitions. However, since 2007, it has been a part of major tennis tournaments. Along with traditional events, wheelchair tennis matches are part of Grand Slam tournaments like the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open.

 

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