Dalbeattie wheelchair tennis participant Keith Thom turned Scottish champion on the weekend – in a special sport.
Keith took half within the Scottish Pickleball Championships which had been held on the Nationwide Badminton Centre in Scotstoun, Glasgow.
Pickeball is described as a cross between tennis, desk tennis and badminton and has had greater than 5 million contributors within the final 12 months alone. It may be performed indoors or outside and performed on a badminton dimension court docket.
This was the primary time wheelchair gamers had taken half within the championships they usually had been teamed up with ready bodied gamers in a round-robin combined doubles.
The wheelchair competitors created numerous curiosity and was performed in entrance of a big crowd on centre court docket. Keith partnered Nanette Mutrie from Glasgow who took the sport up after a profitable worldwide squash profession. Keith himself had solely spent six hours on court docket enjoying the sport main as much as the championships so had the least expertise by far. Regardless of this Keith and his companion received all their video games to take the gold medal on this inaugural class.