Regina Isecke (5 January 1953 – 26 June 2015) was a German wheelchair tennis player who competed in international level events. She was known as a pioneer in wheelchair tennis in Germany and was the German Wheelchair Tennis Association's president for many years until her death. Isecke was involved in an accident in 1971 resulting in a spinal cord injury and paraplegia, she was previously a wheelchair basketball player and a para table tennis player before switching to wheelchair tennis. A street in Junkersdorf, Cologne is named after her, Regina-Isecke-Straße, in 2018. References External links 1953 births 2015 deaths German female tennis players Wheelchair tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players of Germany Paralympic bronze medalists for Germany Paralympic medalists in wheelchair tennis Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair tennis players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair tennis players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics People from Pulheim Sportspeople from Cologne (region) Tennis people from North Rhine-Westphalia 20th-century German women