Lola Ochoa

Maria Dolores "Lola" Ochoa Ribes (born 4 October 1978) is a Spanish wheelchair tennis player.

A paraplegic as a result of an accident when she was 14, she picked up tennis as a wheelchair player following it.

[1] In August 2012, she attended a conference organised by Groupama Seguro in Madrid.

[2][4] She originally chose tennis as a young girl because relatives were involved in it on an amateur level.

[2] Ochoa has belonged to the Avant tennis club,[1] and has been sponsored by PlusUltra[2] and Groupama Insurance.

[4] In the IWTF 1998 year end rankings, Ochoa was 55th in the women's singles.

[1][2] She went out in the singles competition in the round of 32 against Japanese player Chiyoko Ohmae with scores of 2–6 and 1–6.

Playing with Barbara Vidal in the doubles, they lost to a pair from Switzerland by scores of 3–6 and 0–6.

[5] Her performance during the 2011 season was such that for a time, she was the third ranked female player domestically in Spain.

[4][8] Turkey hosted the 2013 World Championships in which Ribes was one of five members of the Spanish team.