BRITISH OPEN WHEELCHAIR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Venue: City of Nottingham Tennis Centre Date: Monday 20 July-Saturday 25 July
INVACARE WORLD TEAM CUP
Venue: City of Nottingham Tennis Centre Date: Monday 27 July-Sunday 2 August

Norfolk was awarded an OBE in the Queen's birthday honours last month

Paralympic champion Peter Norfolk made a comfortable start to his quad singles title defence at the British Open wheelchair tennis championship.

Norfolk beat Italy's Antonio Raffaele 6-1 6-0 and will face former champion Shraga Weinberg of Israel in Thursday's quarter-finals in Nottingham

Fellow Britain Jamie Burdekin also advanced but Andrew Lapthorne went out after losing to American Nick Taylor.

Lapthorne came close against the fourth seed but lost 3-6 6-4 6-2.

Beijing silver medallist and world number three Johan Andersson also exited after losing 6-4 6-1 to Dorrie Timmermans of the Netherlands.

In the women's singles, world number one Esther Vergeer eased into the last four after beating Daniela di Toro of Australia 6-1 6-2 for her 362nd consecutive singles win and will next face third seed Florence Gravellier of France.

The other semi-final will see an all-Dutch clash between second seed Korie Homan and world number four Sharon Walraven.

Defending champion Shingo Kunieda of Japan reached the quarter-finals of the men's singles beating Switzerland's Daniel Pellegrina without losing a game and fourth seed Michael Jeremiasz also advanced with a 6-4 6-2 success over local favourite David Phillipson.

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