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Bodi De, a high school junior in Chevy Chase, keeps a busy schedule. In addition to his coursework, he runs on his school’s track team, plays tennis, and, in 2023, cofounded a nonprofit with his sister Maya to boost awareness of a lesser-known form of adaptive tennis: para standing tennis.
Among the participants in the clinic was Kemit-Amon Lewis, a quadruple amputee who moved to Chevy Chase from Florida in June for work. Lewis, who is 41, played tennis on Savannah State University’s Division I team before he lost his right leg, right hand, left fingers and left toes in 2019. After his amputation, he continued to play with a custom-fitted prosthetic, recently playing in the Para-Standing Tennis World Championships and in an exhibition at Wimbledon.
The clinics are open to any disabled player regardless of prior tennis knowledge. In their first clinic, players drilled warmups and basic forehand and backhand strokes, but De says another goal of the clinic was to get to know each athlete to provide them with a specialized experience.
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