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FACILITIES GUIDE | JUNE 2020
ACCESS
When designing facilities, accessibility to all potential users should be considered. For example,
wheelchair users require appropriate provision of ramps, paths, doorways and
changing/showering/toilet facilities. The following guidelines are provided courtesy of the LTA.
Sports wheelchairs
The camber of the wheels on the sports chair are much wider than the day chair and can range up to
25° (see Fig. 2 below). This provides more mobility and a stable base for the player to move around
the court. The base width of the sports chair (measured from the outside edge of the wheels) can
reach up to 1200 mm (the critical diagonal measurement from front castor to back castor by the
anti-tip bar could be more) against that of 800 mm for a day chair. Therefore, when building new or
enhancing existing facilities, certain access issues, e.g. access onto the courts, corridors, will need to
cater for the additional width of a sports wheelchair. Note, however, that sports chair wheels can
be removed to facilitate access where space is limited in existing facilities.
Fig 2. Example of a sports wheelchair.
