Regina Isecke | |
Birth Date: | 5 January 1953 |
Birth Place: | Pulheim, Germany |
Death Place: | Lohmar, Germany |
Turnedpro: | 1991 |
Retired: | 2002 |
Highestsinglesranking: | No. 3 (26 January 1993) |
Othertournaments: | yes |
Paralympicsresult: | SF – 3rd (1992) |
Regina Isecke (5 January 1953 – 26 June 2015) was a German wheelchair tennis player who competed in international level events. She was known as a pioneer in wheelchair tennis in Germany and was the German Wheelchair Tennis Association's president for many years until her death.[1] [2]
Isecke was involved in an accident in 1971 resulting in a spinal cord injury and paraplegia, she was previously a wheelchair basketball player and a para table tennis player before switching to wheelchair tennis.[3]
A street in Junkersdorf, Cologne is named after her, Regina-Isecke-Straße, in 2018.[4]