Rio Paralympics 2016: Jordanne Whiley suffers singles and doubles defeats

Playing alongside Lucy Shuker, the pair were beaten 6-3 6-3 by the number one seeds Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot in the semi-final, and will now face Japan's Yui Kamiji and Miho Nijo for the bronze medal.

Whiley, who had earlier lost in the women's singles quarter-finals, admitted a wrist injury was causing problems, saying:

"I've spent the last three hours in the British Paralympic Association medical centre and they did a brilliant job treating my wrist that was giving me so much pain in my match earlier.

"So I can't blame that for tonight, we just got off to a slow start and couldn't make the most of our opportunities. It's not been a great day but I'll be back tomorrow ready to give it my all again.

Shaker, who won bronze with Whiley at London 2012, added: "It's such a shame we had such a slow start because I think we could have taken them to three sets if we'd started off playing as well as we were at the end there. The score doesn't really do it justice as the games were really long and competitive.

"We started to find our depth, hitting better shots but Jiske kept coming into the net and that worked well for them. It's a replay of London 2012 and we still want to defend that bronze now we've lost the chance of gold and silver."

Whiley had lost in the first round of her previous two singles appearances at the Paralympics but Holland's Diede de Groot proved too good in their quarter-final on Monday.

Taking about her injury she said: "I've got a wrist injury that has flared up and it's causing me a huge amount of pain.

"I'm so gutted that I couldn't give it my all out there and Diede played really well.

"I just couldn't hit my shots properly but I wanted to carry on because I've worked four years for this moment and I really wanted this one.

Whiley is a nine-time Grand Slam champion with eight doubles and one singles title, but she insists the Paralympics will always be considered the pinnacle of her sport.

Her father was a bronze medallist in athletics at the 1984 Games - and trumping that achievement remains her goal.

"All the tournaments are special but this is the one that often defines you in wheelchair tennis because of the attention it gets," she said.

"It's the worst time possible to have an injury because it's another four years to wait but I'm going to try and put it out of my mind.

"It's great my Dad and I both have bronze medals but I want something shinier.

"He's been a massive part of my career. He gave me my first racket, he shoved it in my hand, to stop me from being bored and that was it, I was hooked.

"He's like my biggest fan and my biggest critic. He can get a bit annoying sometimes because he thinks that he knows everything."

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