Great Britain’s Paralympic wheelchair tennis players begin training at Bisham Abbey

With just over 500 days to go until the start of the Rio Paralympic Games, Tuesday 7 April marks the first official training session at Bisham Abbey for the Tennis Foundation’s Wheelchair Tennis World Class Performance Programme players.

The World Class Performance squad players will use Bisham Abbey as an additional centralised training base to complement camps held at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton.

Geraint Richards, the Tennis Foundation’s Head of Disability Player Performance commented:

“Bisham Abbey will provide an excellent additional training base for our performance players. To be able to train three days a week alongside other Olympic and Paralympic athletes in an elite performance environment can only positively impact the training and performances of our top players.

“We will be able to guarantee court time to work on specific doubles training as well as provide semi-centralised training which will offer invaluable multidisciplinary support to all our players.  We are grateful to the LTA, UK Sport, Sport England, the EIS and SERCO for enabling this exciting opportunity to take place at such a critical time in the Rio cycle.”

For more information please contact:

Bethany Shine

Tennis Foundation Communications Assistant

Bethany.Shine@tennisfoundation.org.uk

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