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Manami Tanaka (tennis)
Japanese wheelchair tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Manami Tanaka (田中 愛美, Tanaka Manami; born 10 June 1996 in Kikuyō, Kumamoto Prefecture) is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player, she is world number 12 in singles and world number 8 in doubles.[1] She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. She is a 2023 Australian Open semifinalist in both singles and doubles, she also reached the semifinals at the French Open and US Open in the doubles with partner Dana Mathewson.[2][3] She would later win a doubles gold medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics with partner Yui Kamiji.[4]
Tanaka took up wheelchair tennis in high school after she severely injured her spine in a freak accident when she slipped and fell on ice-covered stairs outside of her house which left her paralyzed from the waist down.[5]
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Grand Slam Finals
Wheelchair doubles: 1 (1 runner-ups)
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