The wheelchair section began at the Wimbledon Championships, the four major tennis tournaments held in England, and Momoko Ohtani defeated Yui Kamiji in the first round of women's singles to advance to the top four.
The wheelchair section of the Wimbledon Championship started on the 8th, and in the first round of women's singles, Otani, who ranked 6th in the world, and Uechi, who ranked 2nd in the world, played against the Japanese representatives of the Tokyo Paralympics.
Otani, who participated in the Wimbledon Championship on the turf for the first time, took the first set 6-3 and the second set 6-4, and advanced to the best four with a straight win with a set count of 2-0.
Otani won for the first time in his seventh match against Uechi.
On the other hand, Paralympic representative Shingo Kunieda, who is No. 1 in the world of men's singles, suffered a 1-2 defeat to British Gordon Reid in the first round with 6-1, 2-6, 3-6 and 1 to 2 in the first match. Disappeared.