Wimbledon champions support new Wheelchair Tennis Talent ID scheme

Wimbledon Champions Gordon Reid, Alfie Hewett and Jordanne Whiley have today thrown their support behind the Tennis Foundation’s new talent ID programme Push2Podium. Launching the programme today at the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships Reid, Hewett and Whiley said they hoped it would encourage and inspire more disabled people to play wheelchair tennis and find the next generation of Paralympians.

The programme, which builds on the former initiative Ticket2Tokyo will consist of eight free wheelchair tennis festivals across the country where anyone interested in the sport are encouraged to attend and give it a go. Tennis Foundation Talent ID coaches will be present at these festivals and those players who show potential will be chosen to go forward to selection camps.

The Push2Podium festivals will take place during September over the weekend of the 18th and 24th/25th of September and there will be festivals taking place in London, Taunton, Loughborough, Preston, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Scotsotun and Newport . Click here to find out more and book your place.

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