Alex Hunt achieved a feat managed by no other player when he became the first person with a disability to earn an ATP point. That came in Guam in 2017, when he recorded the only main draw win in his career so far. Hunt was born with a left arm that ended just below his elbow, and used a prosthetic extension for most of his early career. However, after extensive trialling with and without the artificial limb, he decided to play without it, serving by placing the ball in his elbow joint and flicking it straight up.
He played regularly through 2017 and 2018, but only had one ITF tournament in 2019 before taking a break for three years. A few events followed in 2022, but one tournament in Thailand in 2023 was his last until returning to the tour in 2026. Just because he hadn’t been playing ITF tournaments didn’t mean that he wasn’t active in the sport, as he took to para tennis like a duck to water. He excelled in para standing events (for those disabled athletes who don’t require a wheelchair), becoming Oceania Singles Champion in the discipline in 2024 and retaining his title a year later. That was just an appetiser, as he added the World title in both years, with the World doubles title in 2025 as a bonus, as well as the European Championship that year. Not surprisingly, he is a long way ahead of the second-placed player in the world rankings.
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