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Great Britain · born Leicester, 1966 · Wimbledon wheelchair doubles champion in the event's first year
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2005
First Wimbledon wheelchair doubles, won
8-6
Final-set tiebreak in the 2005 final
48
Career doubles titles
4
Paralympic Games for Great Britain
Born in Leicester in 1966, Mistry played wheelchair basketball before discovering wheelchair tennis at a demonstration when he was 19. He was Britain's men's No. 1 for more than 15 years and played at four Paralympic Games, starting at Barcelona in 1992. He won the first men's wheelchair doubles title at the Australian Open in 2002, reached No. 2 in the world doubles rankings that May, and won the Masters doubles in 2005. Over his career he won 20 singles and 48 doubles titles. Injury ended his full-time career in 2007. He managed wheelchair tennis at the London 2012 Paralympics, worked as deputy sport manager for the Olympic tennis event at Wimbledon, and co-founded the Leicester Cobras wheelchair basketball club.
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2005) |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon doubles | 2005 champion with Michaël Jérémiasz of France; runner-up with Jérémiasz in 2006 |
| Final to remember | 2005, Court 14: beat David Hall and Martin Legner 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, taking the tiebreak 8-6 |
| Earlier at Wimbledon | Played an exhibition match at The Championships in 2002, three years before the wheelchair event began |
| Wimbledon singles | Not held in his playing years; the wheelchair singles began in 2016 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Michaël Jérémiasz |
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"Lifting the trophy was surreal because you see it on TV but the atmosphere is so much better in real life."
The person behind the player.
Leicester · 1980s
He had taken up wheelchair basketball after seeing other disabled children playing at junior games at Stoke Mandeville. At 19 he saw a wheelchair tennis demonstration and was hooked: "I played at Victoria Park all summer long, entered a couple of tournaments."
Source: Pukaar MagazineLeicester · 2000
For years he combined tennis with work at a leisure centre and in sports development for Leicestershire County Council. "I finally got Lottery funding in 2000, which allowed me to ditch the job and play full-time," he said. Within two years he was No. 2 in the world in doubles.
Source: Pukaar MagazineBarcelona 1992
His first Paralympics, at Barcelona, left a memory he still described 25 years later: "going to the opening ceremony and being cheered on by 80,000 people." He went on to play at three more Games for Great Britain, and after retiring he coached at the Rio Paralympics.
Source: Pukaar MagazineWimbledon 2005 · Court 14
He and Jérémiasz won the first wheelchair doubles title in a third-set tiebreak. At the Champions' Ball they met that year's singles champions, Roger Federer and Venus Williams. Wheelchair tennis had a low profile then, and the win drew little attention outside the sport, but he still counts it as his biggest highlight.
Source: Pukaar MagazineLondon 2012
Five years after retiring, he managed wheelchair tennis at the London Paralympics and was deputy sport manager for the Olympic tennis event at Wimbledon. He also co-founded the Leicester Cobras, one of the largest wheelchair basketball clubs in the country, and took basketball coaching qualifications.
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