Dana Mathewson Wins Pair of Gold Medals at Parapan American Games
By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Monday, November 27, 2023Dana Mathewson turned Santiago's purple clay into gold highway.San Diego native Mathewson rolled to a pair of gold medals—in girls’s singles and doubles—on the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile.More: Djokovic's DreamMathewson received two of the three gold medals Team USA collected on the Games. Her singles gold medal qualifies Mathewson for 2024 Paralympics in Paris.Mathewson scored a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Colombia’s Angelica Bernal within the girls’s singles remaining, incomes an automated bid to subsequent summer time’s Paralympic Games in Paris. In the doubles gold medal match, Mathewson and 16-year-old Maylee Phelps (Portland, Ore.) beat Brazil’s Maria Fernanda Alves and Meirycoll Duval in a match that g...