Shuker indebted to wheelchair tennis for giving her some ‘joy’


LUCY Shuker (pic), bidding for a fourth Paralympics wheelchair tennis medal, said discovering the sport had transformed her after she “lost her sparkle” following a motorbike crash which left her paralysed from the chest down.

Just 21 when she suffered the life-changing injury Shuker, now 44, has become one of the finest doubles players in the world.

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