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Wheelchair Tennis: Motoring On

Every Wednesday the focus of this site returns to its foundational roots, the ITF Rules of Tennis as published in the USTA Friend at Court. We are currently in the midst of an exhaustive and sequential examination of the Rules of Wheelchair Tennis. Today we are exploring rules that require the player to power and operate the wheelchair without mechanical assistance. However, there are some pretty obvious exceptions to that rule.