Catherine Graham bids for Deaflympic medal

Wednesday, September 09, 2009
This point counts

Graham, who hails from Yaddlethorpe, is now living and working as a coach on the Berkshire/Wiltshire borders.  She has partnered Northern Ireland's Anthony Sinclair to their second successive mixed doubles semi-final at a Deaflympics.  Four years ago they missed out on a bronze medal in Melbourne, but Graham went on to win bronze in the women's doubles.   

Britain's only women's tennis player at the Taipei Deaflympics, Graham will hope she and Sinclair can beat Japan's Yachiyo Abe and Tetsuya Matsushita in Thursday's semi-finals to go on an challenge for gold or silver.  

For the second Games in succession, Graham's women's singles progress was halted in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.  After a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Japan's Mizue Tsujioka on Monday, the 26-year-old six-time National Deaf Champion was beaten 3-6, 2-6 by Chinese Taipei's Chiu Mei Ho. 

 
 

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