Macarena Cabrillana

Macarena Andrea "Maca" Cabrillana Sanhueza (born 31 March 1992) is a Chilean wheelchair tennis player.

She was the first Chilean wheelchair tennis player to compete in a Grand Slam when she competed at the 2021 Australian Open,[1] she was a quarterfinalist in the singles event and a semifinalist in the doubles event.

She has also a silver medal in the women's singles at the 2019 Parapan American Games.

[2][3] When Cabrillana was 16, she jumped from the fifth floor of a building as a suicide attempt, she had L3 lumbar paraplegia following her fall and spent a month in hospital.

[4][5] Cabrillana was inspired to play tennis by watching Rafael Nadal and Nicolás Massú while growing up and during rehabilitation.