there will be no men's and women's wheelchair or quad's tennis at this year's US Open tennis championships for a very good reason the world's best wheelchair tennis players are currently in Paris France competing for their countries at the par Olympics every four years the Paro Olympics wheelchair tournament conflicts with the US open the Junior's wheelchair tournament however will take place at the US Open at the Billy Jean King Tennis Center in Queens New York as planned point4 Israelis Adam beresi gu sassin Sergey lysov and Myan ziki are representing Israel in the wheelchair tennis event which got underway on Friday and runs through September 7th on the same Courts at State Roland baros home of the French Open were sassin recently won the French Open quads title the Israelis are off to a great start on Friday beresi 40 who took up wheelchair tennis after losing a leg in a 2007 boating accident defeated Luca ARCA of Italy 6-2 7 to5 this was Bach's first singles victory at the par Olympics after debuting at Tokyo 2020 I cannot say how much fun it was to represent my country like this the win it was the first time I played in front of a crowd like this and it felt like I played at home it was very special I was very happy I could give some good times to people amid all the bad days earlier in the week beresi served as the Israeli delegation's flagbearer he was pleased with his victory and reported the flag bearing was amazing to walk with the whole Israel team was amazing and everyone saw me on TV he will now face Chile's Alexander Cataldo in round two [Music]