With this Sunday, April 17 marking the 500 days to go milestone until the opening of the London 2012 Paralympics, hear from world No 22 Marc McCarroll in the clip below as he tells us about how he first started playing wheelchair tennis and how much it would mean to him to compete at London 2012.
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Marc first tried the sport at the 2005 Spinal Unit Games organised by WheelPower and he has since gone on to make rapid progress ending 2007 with his first career title and a world ranking just outside the world’s top 100.
He has gone from strength-to-strength and in 2008, in only his second full season in international competition, Marc won tournaments in Switzerland and France. By 2009 he had cemented his current position as British Men’s No 3 and won three ITF Futures tournaments on the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour – two in Greece and one in Croatia. Marc won seven men’s doubles titles on the NEC Tour in 2009 and also gained his career high world men’s doubles ranking of No 28 in April.
Marc made his debut in the Great Britain men’s team for the World Team Cup, the Davis Cup of wheelchair tennis, in Nottingham in July 2009, helping GB to fifth place. He subsequently helped Great Britain's men to fourth place in the 2010 Invacare World Team Cup in Turkey.
During a year of highly consistent performances on the NEC Tour in 2010, Marc reached a career best men's singles ranking of No 20, helped GB to fourth place in the men's event at the World Team Cup in Turkey and qualified for his first Camozzi Doubles Masters towards the end of the season.
Marc improved his men's doubles world ranking to No 13 at the start of 2011 after retaining the men's doubles title at the Queensland Open. He subsequently won his first title of the season at the Biel-Bienne Indoors in Switzerland and followed that up by winning both the men's singles and doubles titles at the North East Wheelchair Tennis Tournament in Sunderland. Marc's success in Sunderland brought his seventh career singles title and his 18th career doubles title.
Marc is currently out in Tel Aviv for the Israel Open and you can follow his updates on Twitter @mmccarroll1
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