Just saw that Peter Norfolk will be the GB flagbearer for the Paralympics, and wondered whether it was appropriate to have a topic relating to the Paralympics? Don't know whether that's OK or not ... over to the moderators! 

Looking for a Paralympic tennis thread, this one from 2012 was all I could find!

I've just watched Andy Lapthorne win his Rio 2016 Quad semi-final 6-3 2-6 6-3 against world no. 2 David Wagner USA - cue disbelief, tears and then epic celebrations (not sure if it'll still be here but Day 5 tennis evening session on http://paralympics.channel4.com/watch-live/?cntsrc=search_omd_paralympics_p3para_google&cntsrc=search_ppc_omd_paralympics_google - the match finished around 10pm local / 3am BST), though spare a thought for the American, who won silver in Athens and bronze in Beijing (Peter Norfolk won the gold medal in both cases), and then silver again in London - he looked utterly gutted, having just had his dream of finally getting a gold medal shattered.

Andy plays top seed Dylan Alcott (AUS) in the Final. The H2H is 4-14, 1-4 this year.

A big shock in the women's event, as 3rd seed Jordanne Whiley lost in the QFs to the Dutch no. 4 (an up-and-coming 19-year-old) - I saw some of that match and she had an absolute nightmare That said, the Dutch no. 4 is the world no. 6, all of the previous Paralympic women's wheelchair singles finals (all 6 of them) have been all-Dutch affairs and they've won all the previous women's doubles golds too. Esther Vergeer was responsible for a lot of that, obviously, but not all of it. Jordanne and Lucy went out of the doubles too, so the best they can do now is to match their bronze from 2012, which means Jordanne still won't be able to get a higher Paralympic medal than her father won in the 100m back in 1984.

It was a good day for GB's top (non-Quad) men too, with 3rd seed Gordon Reid and 18-year-old 13th seed Alfie Hewett (who upset the 4th seed in 3 sets) both beating Frenchmen to make the singles QFs and getting into the doubles SFs together too