AFTER athletics and swimming lit up the scene on the opening day of competition at the Rio Paralympics on Thursday‚ attention will now shift to wheelchair tennis, where Team SA fancy their chances of creating history.World champion Kevin Paul won SA’s first medal late on Thursday evening, when he took gold in the men’s 100m breaststroke in a time of 1:04.86.This weekend, usual suspects Lucas Sithole and Kgothatso "KG" Montjane are expected to show their magic when they, as well as Evans Maripa and Leon Els, roll their wheels into the Olympic Tennis Centre.Sithole (quads singles) and Maripa (singles) will contest the first round of their respective events on Saturday‚ with Montjane set to compete on Sunday in the women’s singles opening round.All three debuted at the London Games in 2012‚ while Els is a Paralympic novice.Sithole is bidding to become the first African player to win gold in Paralympic tennis.The KwaZulu-Natal-born player will be hoping to replicate his feat of three ye...
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