FEBRUARY 18, 2023, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – 8-time Paralympic medalist Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands and Quad wheelchair tennis pioneer, American Rick Draney, had been elected to obtain tennis’ final honor – induction into the Global Tennis Corridor of Reputation.
The Elegance of 2023 was once presented on courtroom Saturday on the ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam, welcomed by way of Corridor of Famer Monique Kalkman-van den Bosch, a number of present wheelchair tennis stars, and Dutch tennis lovers. Vergeer recently serves as Match Director of the ABN AMRO Open’s males’s and ladies’s wheelchair occasions.
Vergeer and Draney will change into the 6th and 7th wheelchair tennis inductees to the Global Tennis Corridor of Reputation, becoming a member of Brad Parks, Randy Snow, Chantal Vandierendonck, David Corridor, and Kalkman-van den Bosch. Wheelchair tennis applicants are regarded as for election into the Corridor of Reputation each 4 years. The class acknowledges applicants with a outstanding document of accomplishment on the perfect global stage. This 12 months marks the primary time two wheelchair applicants had been elected concurrently.
In July, Vergeer and Draney will sign up for an elite staff of 262 inductees representing 27 countries as Corridor of Famers. Without equal honor in tennis – induction into the Global Tennis Corridor of Reputation – acknowledges the sum of a profession as being among probably the most completed an impactful within the historical past of tennis.
The Elegance of 2023 might be formally inducted into the Corridor of Reputation on Saturday, July 22 in Newport, Rhode Island. Complete Enshrinement Weekend stories, at the side of tickets for the Induction Rite, are actually to be had at tennisfame.com/enshrinement.
