Büşra Ün
Büşra Ün is a Turkish female Paralympic wheelchair tennis player.Early years
Büşra Ün was born in Izmir. At the age of six-and-half-months, her parents noticed that she has no feeling at her feet. She was diagnosed with neuroblastoma having a malignant tumor in her right abdomen. After one-and-half-year-long chemotherapy and two surgeries, the tumor was removed. However, due to damaged nerves, she became paraplegic.
Currently, she is a student of sport management at Ege University in Izmir.Playing career
She began with table tennis playing, and then switched over to wheelchair tennis in February 2009 as she was studying in the high school's fourth grade in Buca. She plays right handed.
She is Turkish champion in the women's and junior's category. In 2010, she won the Balkan Championship. She is on the third place in the world's under-18 ranking. In the world's list, she climbed up to the 30th place.
Ün obtained a quota spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She is so the first ever Turkish wheelchair tennis player to represent her country at the Paralympics.
