27 January 2012

Great Britain’s world No.2 Peter Norfolk will play American world No. 1 David Wagner in Saturday’s quad singles final at the Australian Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships after a tough final day of group matches.

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26 January 2012

Great Britain’s Andy Lapthorne and Peter Norfolk successfully retained their Australian Open quad doubles wheelchair tennis title on Thursday at Melbourne Park after they beat Israeli Noam Gershony and American David Wagner 6-4, 6-2.

Lapthorne and Norfolk secured an immediate break at the start of the final, only for Gershony and Wagner to level the match at 2-2, but three games in succession gave the Brits a healthy first set advantage.

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25 January 2012

Peter Norfolk edged out fellow Brit Andy Lapthorne 6-4, 7-6(6) at Melbourne Park on Wednesday in the first of their three round-robin quad singles matches at the Australian Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships.

World No. 2 Norfolk hit the first of two aces in the opening game of the match before twice going a break up to lead 2-0 and 4-2. Lapthorne fought back to level the contest on both occasions, but Norfolk broke again en route to taking the opening set on his first set point.

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05 January 2012

Tennis Foundation Lead Coach Stuart Wilkinson tells us about festive warm weather training with Paralympic champion Peter Norfolk.

The festive period has just come and gone in a blur for me this year. I flew out of a cold London Heathrow on the 27th December and a day later I was half way around the world in the sunshine. It wasn’t a family holiday, but a crucial warm weather training camp in Dubai with two-time Paralympic champion Peter Norfolk.

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