At Stade Roland Garros, the best wheelchair athletes in the world are vying for position, including four Israelis: Adam Berdichevsky, Guy Sasson, Sergei Lysov, and Maayan Zikri.
This year's US Open Tennis Championships will not feature wheelchair or quad tennis for men or women, and with good cause.
The top wheelchair tennis players in the world are now playing for their nations at the Paralympics in Paris, France.
(The junior wheelchair competition, on the other hand, will proceed as scheduled during the US Open at the Billie Jean King Tennis Centre in Queens, New York.
Adam Berdichevsky, Guy Sasson, Sergei Lysov, and Maayan Zikri are the four Israelis competing in the wheelchair tennis competition.
It began on Friday and will continue on the same Stade Roland Garros courts, home of the French Open, until September 7. Sasson previously won the French Open quads title there.
After losing his leg in a boating accident in 2007, Berdichevsky, now forty, started playing wheelchair tennis. On Friday, he defeated Italian Luca Arca 6-2, 7-5.
After making her debut at Tokyo 2020, Berdichevsky won her first gold medal in the Paralympic singles competition.