Will Ksenia Chasteau achieve a feat? The last Frenchwoman still in the running at the Paris Paralympic Games, Ksenia Chasteau will have to redouble her talent to win her second round singles match. Because her opponent, the Japanese Yui Kamiji is the world number two. But nothing is impossible for the winner of the junior Roland-Garros. At just 18 years old, the wheelchair tennis player is a rising star in her sport. Born in Irkutsk, Russia, Ksenia Chasteau lost her left leg after a terrible accident. Just before her 15th birthday in 2021, the athlete survived a serious motorcycle accident with her father. “We both lost our left leg. I have a tibial amputee, the least ‘hard’ amputation.”she explained. The young woman, who already played tennis before being amputated, logically became immediately interested in wheelchair tennis.
“The tennis sensations are almost similar”
“I did a year of rehabilitation and the FFT quickly contacted me, she told the French Tennis Federation. At first I was afraid that I wouldn’t like it. For me, valid tennis was a passion, a physical sensation. And in September 2021, I hit the ball for the first time on a chair and on a field. I had already tried a little at the rehabilitation center, never on a field.” And this new sport immediately appealed to Ksenia Chasteau!
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