Daniela Di Toro

Daniela Di Toro, known as Danni, is an Australian wheelchair tennis and para table tennis player born in Melbourne in 1974. She became a paraplegic in 1988 after a wall fell on her at a school swimming carnival, and soon began playing wheelchair tennis, representing Australia from 1989. She won ten Australian Open titles, reached world number one in singles and was the 2010 French Open doubles champion. Her Paralympic tennis career brought a silver medal in doubles at Sydney in 2000 and a bronze in singles at Athens in 2004. After moving to para table tennis in 2015 she competed for Australia at Rio, Tokyo and Paris, captaining the team at Rio and Tokyo and carrying the flag at the Tokyo opening ceremony. She also works in athlete wellbeing for Paralympics Australia.