FEBRUARY 18, 2023, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – Eight-time Paralympic medalist Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands and Quad wheelchair tennis pioneer, American Rick Draney, have been elected to obtain tennis’ final honor – induction into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame.
The Class of 2023 was launched on courtroom Saturday on the ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam, welcomed by Corridor of Famer Monique Kalkman-van den Bosch, a number of present wheelchair tennis stars, and Dutch tennis followers. Vergeer at the moment serves as Match Director of the ABN AMRO Open’s males’s and ladies’s wheelchair occasions.
Vergeer and Draney will turn out to be the sixth and seventh wheelchair tennis inductees to the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame, becoming a member of Brad Parks, Randy Snow, Chantal Vandierendonck, David Corridor, and Kalkman-van den Bosch. Wheelchair tennis candidates are thought-about for election into the Corridor of Fame each 4 years. The class acknowledges candidates with a distinguished file of feat on the highest worldwide degree. This yr marks the primary time two wheelchair candidates have been elected concurrently.
In July, Vergeer and Draney will be part of an elite group of 262 inductees representing 27 nations as Corridor of Famers. The final word honor in tennis – induction into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame – acknowledges the sum of a profession as being amongst essentially the most completed an impactful within the historical past of tennis.
The Class of 2023 can be formally inducted into the Corridor of Fame on Saturday, July 22 in Newport, Rhode Island. Full Enshrinement Weekend experiences, together with tickets for the Induction Ceremony, at the moment are accessible at tennisfame.com/enshrinement.
