David Hall (tennis)
2000 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Hall
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| Full name | David Robert Hall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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| Residence | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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14 January 1970 Sydney |
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| Turned pro | 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Career record | 632–111 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1995) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Career record | 397–89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1994) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Hall
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David Robert Hall, OAM (born 14 January 1970) is an Australian wheelchair tennis player. He has been referred to as Australia’s greatest ever wheelchair tennis player.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Hall was raised in the New South Wales coastal town of Budgewoi, attending Budgewoi Public School and Northlakes High School. On 11 October 1986, at the age of 16, Hall lost his legs after being hit by a car. After a long period of rehabilitation, Hall began working as a clerk at the local police station. It was around this time that Hall was looking through the local paper and saw a picture of a Terry Mason in a wheelchair playing tennis.
Hall had played tennis growing up and at the age of 13 and 14 had been Club Champion at his local tennis club. Inspired, Hall began to play and entered his first wheelchair tennis competition, the 'Albury-Wodonga Classic', in 1988.
This led to him competing in his first Australian Open in February 1989. Playing in the C division, Hall won. The following year, Hall participated in his first international competition and turned professional in 1993. 1995 saw Hall relocate to the United States. The year culminated with Hall winning the US Open Singles title and being ranked number one in the world.
In his career, Hall won all of the major world titles and was ranked as the world number one player for six years. He won Paralympic gold, silver and bronze medals and 18 Super Series titles. He was a member of Australia's World Cup winning teams in 1994, 1996, 2000 and 2002. He was ranked World No 1 for eight of the years between 1995 and 2005. Between 1995 and 2005 he won the Australian Open Wheelchair tennis title nine times, the British Open seven times, the US Open eight times, and the Japan Open eight times. For most of his tennis career, Hall was coached by Rich Berman. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder from 1995 to 2000.
Hall played professionally for more than a decade before officially retiring from competition in 2006. He announced his retirement from the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour in June 2006. He won the NEC Singles Masters titles in 2002 and 2004.
Hall won eight Australian Opens in the men's singles wheelchair event. He first won the men's single wheelchair event at the Australian Open in 1996. That same year, he also won the men's doubles with his partner, Mick Connell. He won his first British Open in 1995.
Hall won seven British Opens in the men's singles wheelchair event.
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