Born | (2001-02-02) 2 February 2001 (age 23) Baar, Switzerland |
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Plays | Left-handed (one-handed backhand) |
Singles | |
Career titles | 19 |
Highest ranking | No. 19 (10 January 2022) |
Current ranking | No. 32 (20 January 2025) |
Other tournaments | |
Paralympic Games | 1R (2020, 2024) |
Doubles | |
Career titles | 19 |
Highest ranking | No. 18 (21 February 2022) |
Current ranking | No. 37 (20 January 2025) |
Nalani Buob (born 2 February 2001) is a Swiss wheelchair tennis player of Indian descent. She is a former junior world number one in October 2016.
Buob took up wheelchair tennis aged ten. She is inspired by her tennis idol and hero Martina Hingis.
References
- "Nalani Buob - ITF Profile". International Tennis Federation. 21 January 2025.
- "Nalani Buob - Swiss Paralympic Committee (in German)". Swiss Paralympic Committee. 21 January 2025.
- "Faces of the Future: Switzerland's Nalani Buob". International Paralympic Committee. 11 February 2017.
- "If you hesitate, you're too late". www.zug4you.ch. 20 August 2021.
- 2001 births
- Living people
- People from Baar, Switzerland
- Swiss female tennis players
- Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Switzerland
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Swiss people of Indian descent
- People with spina bifida
- Sportspeople from the canton of Zug