birth_place singlesrecord plays birth_date doublesrecord residence article_title name
kashiwa city 486 -- 163 right handed 26 march 1972 446 -- 99 mie preti , japan satoshi saida
 satoshi saida 斎田 悟司
satoshi saida

saida , a big baseball enthusiast in his childhood , lost his left leg because of illness .
at first , he used to play wheelchair basketball with his friends .
at the age of fourteen , he had an opportunity to get to know wheelchair tennis with his basketball teammates at a seminar which took place in his hometown , and started this sport .
as a competitor , his first paralympics was the 1996 summer paralympics in atlanta , usa .
at the 2000 summer paralympics in sydney , australia , he got the eighth place .
with shingo kunieda , he participated in the 2004 summer paralympics in athens , greece , and won the men 's doubles event .
the two competed together again at the 2008 beijing games and took bronze in the doubles event .
