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Daniela Di Toro
Full nameDaniela Di Toro
Country (sports) Australia
ResidenceMelbourne, Australia
Born (1974-10-16) October 16, 1974 (age 50)
Melbourne, Australia
Turned pro1988
PlaysRight Handed
Singles
Career record394-115
Highest rankingNo. 1 (14 July 1998)
Current ranking5
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (1991-4, 1996-2001)
French OpenW (1996, 2000)
US OpenW (1997, 1999)
Other tournaments
MastersF (1996, 2010)
Paralympic Games Bronze Medal (2004)
Doubles
Career record256-77
Highest rankingNo. 1 (20 May 1997)
Current ranking48
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenW (1998, 2001)
French OpenW (1996, 2000, 2010)
WimbledonF (2009, 2010)
US OpenW (1996, 1997)
Other doubles tournaments
Masters DoublesW (2000)
Paralympic Games Silver Medal (2000)
World Team CupW (1999)
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Women's wheelchair tennis
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Women's singles
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Women's doubles
Last updated on: 29 January 2012.

Daniela Di Toro (born 16 October 1974) is a Paralympic tennis player competitor from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Personal life

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Daniela Di Toro was born on 16 October 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria. She became a paraplegic in 1988 in an accident while competing at a school swimming carnival, when a wall fell on her.[1][2] While in hospital, following her accident, Di Toro met Sandy Blythe, a member of the Australian Rollers. He inspired her to continue to pursue sports. She currently resides in Thornbury, Victoria[3] and she works as a youth worker in Melbourne.[2] Her personal heroes include the Dalai Lama.[1] Di Toro admires Lucy Shuker because she feels that Lucy, the most disabled women's tennis player on the professional circuit with a classification of T/4, makes playing tennis look easy.[3] She also admires Tony Hawk.[4]

Competitive tennis

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In the past I've always been so caught up in my own competition, I've missed out on seeing my friends compete and getting a sense of what people must feel when they're at a Paralympic Games. It's extraordinary.

Daniela Di Toro[1]

In wheelchair tennis, Di Toro is classified as Paraplegic T12/L1. She first started playing tennis when she was nine. She started playing wheelchair tennis in 1988, and started representing Australia in 1989, winning the Australian Open in 1991 - it would be her first of ten Australian Open titles. Internationally, she has been ranked as high as number one.[1] She was once a scholarship holder at the Victorian Institute of Sport.[4] As a professional tennis player, Di Toro has won more than three hundred matches. She is coached by Greg Crump.[3] She trains at the Tennis Centre and Nunawading.[4] Her club tennis is with Wheelchair Sport Victoria.[4]

At the end of the 2010 season, Di Toro was ranked second in the world. During the 2010 season, she reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, semifinals of the French Open and finals of the US Open. In 2010, she won the Japan Open and the Korean Open.[5] In 2010, Di Toro competed in the women's double tennis events at the four major tennis events. Her partners were Lucy Shuker of Great Britain and Aniek Van Koot of Holland.[6] Di Toro was injured in 2011, and had to pull out of the French and Korean Opens because her neck was inflamed. The injury happened while she was competing at the Japanese Open and was a herniated disc.[7]

Paralympics

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Di Toro has competed at several Paralympic Games including Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.[1] She won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Women's Doubles event,[8] with Branka Pupovac as her partner. She won a bronze medal at the 2004 Games in the Women's Single event. She competed at the 2008 Paralympics, and was the only female wheelchair tennis player on the Australian team.[1]

Kobe Open

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Di Toro won the Kobe Open in 2003 in the women's single event.[4]

Retirement

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In 2005, Di Toro retired from competitive tennis in order to spend more time studying Chinese medicine. She would end her career with 12 Australian Open titles, 4 US Open titles, 4 French Open titles, a winner of the 2000 Wheelchair Tennis Masters Doubles event, and carrying a silver and bronze Olympic medal. Following her 2005 retirement, she continued to be active in the wheelchair tennis community by coaching young tennis players.

Return from Retirement

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In January 2007, Di Toro came out of retirement to compete in the Australian Open's Wheelchair Tennis Super Series event where she lost in the first round. She would have more success in doubles, where she made the semi-finals with partner Lucy Shuker. She made her first finals apperance after retirement at Wimbledon in 2009. She would go on to make 6 straight finals including winning the 2010 French Open, beating Esther Vergeer and Sharon Walraven. She also made two finals apperances in singles, at the 2010 US Open and 2011 Australian Open. In 2010 she made the finals of the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in singles.

Recognition

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In 1999, she was named the Australian Paralympian of the Year.[1] In 2010, Di Toro was nominated for the Most Outstanding athlete with a disability by Tennis Australia.[5]

Career Statistics

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Grand Slam singles

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**To prevent confusion, 2002 onwards includes only wheelchair tennis events held at regular Grand Slam events (the first of which was the 2002 Australian Open) regardless of their ITF status. The British Open has also been excluded.

Tournament Pre-2002 Grand Slam Era
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Singles
Australian Open W[9] W[10] W[11] W[12] SF[13] W[14] W[15] W[16] W[17] W[18] W[19] F[20] F[21] F[22] A A 1R[23] 1R[24] SF[25] QF F QF
French Open SF[26] A SF[27] QF[28] A W[29] 2R[30] A A W[31] A NH NH NH NH NH A A A SF A
US Open QF[32] A A SF[33] A F[34] W[35] F[36] W[37] F[38] A NH NH NH A A A NH QF F QF
Doubles
Australian Open NH NH NH NH NH QF[39] NH W[40] SF[41] SF[42] W[43] NH NH SF[44] A A QF[45] SF[46] SF[25] F SF SF
French Open NH NH NH F[47] A W[48] QF[49] A A W[50] A NH NH NH NH NH A A A W A
Wimbledon NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH F F A
US Open NH NH NH F[51] A W[52] W[53] SF[54] SF[55] SF[56] A NH NH NH NH A A A F F QF

Wheelchair Tennis Masters and Paralympic games

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Tournament 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Wheelchair Tennis Masters
WTM Singles NH NH NH A A F[57] SF[58] A SF[59] RR A A A A A A A A SF F RR
WTM Doubles NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH W[60] A A A A A A A A RR A A
Paralympic Games
Singles - A - - - SF - - - QF - - - SF-B - - - 1R - - -
Doubles - A - - - SF - - - RU - - - ? - - - A - - -

References

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  2. ^ a b "Toro, Daniela". The Australian Women's Register. 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  3. ^ a b c "Daniela Di Toro". Tennis Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Daniela Di Toro". Victorian Institute of Sport. 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  5. ^ a b "Di Toro caps off successful season". Tennis Australia. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  6. ^ "Australian Tennis Awards winners announced". Tennis Australia. 4 December 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  7. ^ "Di Toro suffers injury". Tennis Australia. 25 May 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  8. ^ "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
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