Adam Kellerman

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Adam Kellerman
File:290212 - Adam Kellerman - 3b - 2012 Team processing.jpg
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Kellerman
Country (sports)  Australia
Born (1990-07-26) 26 July 1990 (age 34)
Sydney, New South Wales
Official website www.adamkellerman.com
Singles
Career record {{#property:P564}}
Highest ranking 10
Current ranking 10
Other tournaments
Doubles
Career record {{#property:P555}}
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open )
Last updated on: 9 December 2011.

Adam Kellerman (born 26 July 1990) is an Australian wheelchair tennis player.[1][2] When he was thirteen years old, he was diagnosed with a form of cancer called Ewings Sarcoma.[1][3][4] He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the men's singles and doubles wheelchair tennis events. As of 4th May, 2016 he is ranked Number 1 in Australia and Number 10 in the World for Men's Single Wheelchair Tennis. [5]

Personal

While dealing with his cancer, he developed an infection that resulted in the removal of his right hip which resulted in limited use of his right leg.[1][4] His medical condition left him in a state of depression that lasted for two years.[1][4] He attended Masada College.[2][6] In 2010, he won the New South Wales Maccabi Sportsman of the Year.[4] For a brief time, he attended the University of Arizona before leaving university to pursue his tennis career.[3] During his time at University of Arizona, he joined Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and was very active in his chapter. He occasionally works as a motivational speaker.[1][3] As of 2012, he lived in the Sydney area[3] and was a student.[1]

Kellerman is right handed.[6] His father is the Northside Maccabi Football Club president.[3]

Tennis

Adam Kellerman is a wheelchair tennis player.[1][6] When playing, he follows the same rules as his able-bodied counterparts except the ball is allowed to bounce twice.[6][7] He started playing tennis in December 2006,[1][3] and took up the sport full-time in 2011.[8]

Kellerman first represented Australia in 2007,[1] and was a member of Australia's junior national team in 2007 and 2008.[3] In 2008, he played some doubles matches with Ben Weekes.[1][3][8]

At the beginning of 2012, Kellerman was ranked 61st in the world. By June 2012, he was ranked 29th in the world and number two in Australia.[1][2][3][6] He had worked hard to improve his ranking over the course of the year because only the top 46 ranked players in the world qualified for the Paralympics.[3][6] In the last half of 2011 and first half of 2012, he participated in 21 different competitions.[3][6]

Kellerman was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, in the men's singles and the doubles event where he teamed up with Ben Weekes.[1][2][6][7][9][10][11] The Games were his first.[8][9] He was twenty-one years old at the Games.[3][9] Prior to competing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he had only played wheelchair tennis for five and a half years.[3][8] He made the round of 16 in the men's singles and doubles at the London Games.[12]

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References

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