No other sport in the world requires that you tape your racket to your hand - but for wheelchair tennis. Mark Eccleston is an athlete who has overcome tremendous adversity - this frank, fearless and often funny film tells his triumph of the human spirit. He became one of the world's leading wheelchair tennis players and held the World No 1 spot for fourteen months. He went on to win a silver medal in the Athens Paralympics in 2004. Mark could never have achieved this level of success without the great will power he shows daily - and a philosophy which is as useful to the able bodied as to the disabled.
Practical Effects
Actual wheelchair tennis footage—no faking the physics.
Direction
Donard's extreme sports eye brings kinetic chaos to the court.
Director
Thierry Donard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thierry Donard built his career filming extreme sports in impossible locations; this was his pivot to human drama.
Wheelchair tennis was only a full Paralympic medal sport since 1992—Mark's 2004 silver came as the sport was finally getting global legitimacy.
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