Arthur Ashe standout Jarmon takes down tennis pros
DreShaun Jarmon, a Central High sophomore who represented Arthur Ashe Tennis and Education, pulled off an amazing feat on Saturday, August 28 at Arthur Ashe Kids’ day at the US Open in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., when he defeated world tennis stars Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Kim Clijsters and US Open Wheelchair champion Esther Vergeer in a target hitting competition. Competing in front of 25,000 …
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Xinhua Updated: 2008-09-14 00:38 BEIJING — Ready to serve, 10 feet behind the baseline, American Nick Taylor pinned the ball between the heel of one foot and the toe of the other. He lofted the ball into the air with a quick kick of his foot and whipped an underhand topspin serve deep into the service box. The ball jumped high, and the return was short. Taylor scooted ahead in his motorized wheelchair and flattened out a forehand down the line for a winner. Taylor, the third seed of the quad (quadriplegic) division of the Beijing Paralympic Games wheelchair tennis, serves underhanded because he essentially has no biceps and cannot lift the racquet above his head. He has inborn arthrogryposis, a congenital disorder characterized by muscle weakness and fibrosis. The disease prohibited certain muscles from developing, leaving Taylor’s arms and legs, among other muscles of his body, atrophied. “I began playing since I was a kid. In the United States, we have school sports when we are in high school. Tennis was the best possibility to work (for me),” Taylor told a press conference on Saturday. “I had to play against able-bodied people. No wheelchair players were playing high school tennis, so I didn’t even know wheelchair tennis existed when I began. “I take a lot of pride in it and I hopefully will help wheelchair tennis grow to some extent. I really hope it will continue to grow.” The 28-year-old, who has been playing tennis since he was 14, when he made the high school …