The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust raises funds for disabled people who play tennis - wheelchair, deaf, learning disabilities and those with a visual impairment. Sport can be life-changing for a person with a disability and tennis provides physical wellbeing and social opportunities as well as competition for those who want it. 2020 has been tough for everyone, and with the second lockdown in place we want to not only raise much needed funds to continue our work, but also provide a physical challenge to all our tennis players who currently can't take part in their great sport.

While this challenge has a focus on our wheelchair players we have modified versions for our VI, Deaf and LD Players. Also, wheelchair tennis players, we encourage you to challenge your family or friends to see if they can make it 2km on a handbike or wheelchair (please ensure you adhere to any Government guidelines that may be in place at the time of the event). This will be a great twist and not only will be really fun to include family and friends but will also show them how tough pushing can be - be ready to provide them with lots of support the day after!

Some of our top Paralympic tennis players will be joining this challenge - opting for a harder 5km and we can't wait to see which player tops our leaderboard at the end of the challenge.

Our professional players will lead the way by completing the challenge in the first week of December, with everyone else asked to complete it by December 13. You can link your Strava to our event, or manually upload your successful completion.

Deaf and LD Players we challenge you to do a 5km run with a twist - balancing a ball on your racket the whole way! GB Player and Deaf tennis legend Lewis Fletcher will be leading this campaign, lets see what time he sets, and if he can make it the whole way without dropping the ball. VI Players we challenge you to bounce your ball on your racket for 20 mins and we hope to get 20 of you to do this (20-20).