Daniela Di Toro
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Di Toro
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| Full name | Daniela Di Toro | |||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) |
 Australia
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| Residence | Melbourne, Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
16 October 1974 Melbourne, Australia |
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| Turned pro | 1988 | |||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right Handed | |||||||||||||||
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| Career record | 394-115 | |||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (14 July 1998) | |||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 5 | |||||||||||||||
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| Masters | F (1996, 2010) | |||||||||||||||
| Paralympic Games |
 Bronze Medal (2004) |
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| Career record | 256-77 | |||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (20 May 1997) | |||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 48 | |||||||||||||||
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| French Open | W (2010) | |||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | F (2009, 2010) | |||||||||||||||
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| Masters Doubles | W (2000) | |||||||||||||||
| Paralympic Games |
 Silver Medal (2000) |
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| World Team Cup |
 Champion (1999) |
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| Last updated on: 29 January 2012. | ||||||||||||||||
Daniela [Monique Sage] Di Toro (born 16 October 1974) is an Australian Wheelchair tennis player. Di Toro was the 2010 French Open doubles champion and has also been the Masters double champion. In singles Di Toro is the former world number one and two time masters finalist. In 2015, she moved to para-table tennis and represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. She was team captain with Kurt Fearnley.
Daniela [Monique Sage] Di Toro was born on 16 October 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria. She became a paraplegic in 1988 in an accident while competing at a school swimming carnival, when a wall fell on her. While in hospital, following her accident, Di Toro met Sandy Blythe, a member of the Australian Rollers. He inspired her to continue to pursue sports. She lives in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury and she works as a youth worker in Melbourne. She graduated from Victoria University with a Bachelor of Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture and Herbs) in 2009.
In the past I've always been so caught up in my own competition, I've missed out on seeing my friends compete and getting a sense of what people must feel when they're at a Paralympic Games. It's extraordinary.
In wheelchair tennis, Di Toro is classified as Paraplegic T12/L1. She first started playing tennis when she was nine. She started playing wheelchair tennis in 1988, and started representing Australia in 1989, winning the Australian Open in 1991 – it would be her first of ten Australian Open titles. Internationally, she has been ranked as high as number one. She was once a scholarship holder at the Victorian Institute of Sport. As a professional tennis player, Di Toro has won more than three hundred matches. She is coached by Greg Crump. She trains at the Tennis Centre and Nunawading. Her club tennis is with Wheelchair Sport Victoria.
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