Tennis Discrimination IPC announces USC wheelchair cancellation at 11:01 June 19
IPC = International Paralympic Committee Discriminates against Wheelchair Players Regarding Canceling Wheelchair Division for Prevention of New Coronavirus Infection at the US Open at the Four Tennis Games Held in August Issued an unusual statement to do so.
One of the four major tennis tournaments, the US Open, has been decided to be held from August 31st in New York, where the infection status of the new coronavirus is the severest in the United States. The wheelchair department has been discontinued because it needs to be restricted.
IPC chairman Andrew Parsons said in a statement yesterday: "Don't be an excuse to discriminate against a group of players from the challenges of the new coronavirus pandemic. Just because you're playing in a wheelchair. It shouldn't be locked out" and asks the organizers to reconsider it as discriminating against wheelchair athletes.
In addition, wheelchair tennis players around the world have also shown their willingness to protest one after another on SNS etc., as the decision is discriminatory.
Japanese athletes have been prominent in the US Open wheelchair section, with Shingo Kunieda winning 6 times in men's singles and Yui Uechi winning twice in women's singles.