Daniela Di Toro

In 2015, she moved to para-table tennis and represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, where she was team captain with Kurt Fearnley.

[4][5] While in hospital, following her accident, Di Toro met Sandy Blythe, a member of the Australian Rollers.

[7] In the past I've always been so caught up in my own competition, I've missed out on seeing my friends compete and getting a sense of what people must feel when they're at a Paralympic Games.

[11] Di Toro has competed as wheelchair tennis player in 4 consecutive Paralympic Games: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

[4] She won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Women's Doubles event,[12] with Branka Pupovac as her partner.

[8] In 2005, Di Toro retired from competitive tennis in order to spend more time studying Chinese medicine.

In January 2007, Di Toro came out of retirement to compete in the Australian Open's Wheelchair Tennis Super Series event where she lost in the first round.

She would go on to make 6 straight finals including winning the 2010 French Open, beating Esther Vergeer and Sharon Walraven.

[14] At the 2019 Oceania Para Table Tennis Championships, Darwin, she won the gold medal in the Women's Class 2–5.

[16] Di Toro competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the Women's singles C3-5 but did not progress past the group stage.

[19] In November 2019, Batt with Daniela di Toro was named co-captain of the Australian Team at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

[20] On 23 August 2021, di Toro and Batt were announced as the flagbearers for the Australian team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony.

Di Toro playing at the 2012 London Paralympics
Team co-captains Daniela di Toro and Ryley Batt at the announcement that they would jointly carry the Australian flag in the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Paralympics
Team co-captains Daniela di Toro and Ryley Batt at the announcement that they would jointly carry the Australian flag in the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Paralympics