Büşra Ün

Büşra Ün (born 19 May 1994) is a Turkish female Paralympic wheelchair tennis player.[1][2]

Büşra Ün

Country (sports)	Turkey
Born	19 May 1994 Izmir, Turkey
Plays	Right handed
Official website	www.busraun.com/busra-kimdir-
Singles
Highest ranking	30 (29 April 2013)
Current ranking	33
Doubles
Highest ranking	26 (13 May 2013)
Current ranking	35

Early years

Büşra Ün was born in Izmir. At the age of six-and-half-months, her parents noticed that she has no feeling at her feet. She was diagnosed with neuroblastoma having a malignant tumor in her right abdomen. After one-and-half-year-long chemotherapy and two surgeries, the tumor was removed. However, due to damaged nerves, she became paraplegic.[3][4]

Currently, she is a student of sport management at Ege University in Izmir.[4]

Playing career

She began with table tennis playing, and then switched over to wheelchair tennis in February 2009 as she was studying in the high school's fourth grade in Buca.[3][4][5] She plays right handed.[1]

She is Turkish champion in the women's and junior's category. In 2010, she won the Balkan Championship. She is on the third place in the world's under-18 ranking. In the world's list, she climbed up to the 30th place.[3]

Ün obtained a quota spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She is so the first ever Turkish wheelchair tennis player to represent her country at the Paralympics.[4][5]

References

1. "Busra Un". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
2. "Büşra Ün Yeri geldi duvara karşı tek başıma oynadım". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 9 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
3. "Milli tenisçimiz" (in Turkish). Büşra Ün. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
4. Çiftdalöz, Serhan (7 July 2016). "Fıtratında pes etmek yok". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 26 August 2016.
5. "Büşra Ün, Rio Paralimpik Oyunlarında". Milliyet (in Turkish). 20 June 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.