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A Killaloe tennis coach has served up an ace by setting up Blind Tennis in Finland for the first time before managing a team that won two bronze medals at the World Blind Tennis Championships. Tennis is the fastest growing sport for visually impaired people in Ireland, which has up to 160 active competitive and social participants from zero a few years ago. Coaching sighted tennis for 15 years, Wesley O’Brien has been involved in teaching blind tennis for the last seven years. The Killaloe coach decided to impart his skills in a country where blind tennis was never played previously. In January 2022, he contacted the Chief Executive Officer of Tennis Finland, Teemu Purho and asked if the association would be interested in a new blind tennis programme he could bring to the country. A zoom meeting was set up between Mr O’Brien, the CEO of Tennis Finland and a representative from the International Blind Tennis Association. Having received …
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