Wheelchair tennis took center stage at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy last week, when some of the greatest players in the world descended on the French Riviera Open, a 2 Series event on the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The field included Yui Kamiji, who has 20 singles and doubles Grand Slam titles to her name.
But, beyond the south of France, the event featured some jaw-dropping moments that would live on primarily on the internet.
For example, in the men's quarterfinals, top seed and former ITF No. 1 Gordon Reid defeated Daniel Caverzaschi, 6-1, 6-2—but not before Caverzaschi pulled off one of the plays of the tournament: hauling the entire hypotenuse of his side of the court to chase down a Reid lob (the ball is allowed to bounce twice in wheelchair tennis) and answering with a moonball the Brit couldn't get back: