Büşra Ün
Country (sports)Turkey
Born (1994-05-19) 19 May 1994
Izmir, Turkey
PlaysRight handed
Official websitewww.busraun.com/busra-kimdir-
Singles
Highest ranking30 (29 April 2013)
Current ranking33
Doubles
Highest ranking26 (13 May 2013)
Current ranking35

Büşra Ün (born 19 May 1994) is a Turkish female Paralympic wheelchair tennis player.[1][2]

Early years

Büşra Ün was born in Izmir. At the age of six-and-half-months, her parents noticed that she has no feeling at her feet. She was diagnosed with neuroblastoma having a malignant tumor in her right abdomen. After one-and-half-year-long chemotherapy and two surgeries, the tumor was removed. However, due to damaged nerves, she became paraplegic.[3][4]

Currently, she is a student of sport management at Ege University in Izmir.[4]

Playing career

She began with table tennis playing, and then switched over to wheelchair tennis in February 2009 as she was studying in the high school's fourth grade in Buca.[3][4][5] She plays right handed.[1]

She is Turkish champion in the women's and junior's category. In 2010, she won the Balkan Championship. She is on the third place in the world's under-18 ranking. In the world's list, she climbed up to the 30th place.[3]

Ün obtained a quota spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She is so the first ever Turkish wheelchair tennis player to represent her country at the Paralympics.[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Busra Un". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Büşra Ün Yeri geldi duvara karşı tek başıma oynadım". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 9 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Milli tenisçimiz" (in Turkish). Büşra Ün. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Çiftdalöz, Serhan (7 July 2016). "Fıtratında pes etmek yok". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Büşra Ün, Rio Paralimpik Oyunlarında". Milliyet (in Turkish). 20 June 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.


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