Bron: KNLTB Diede de Groot and Ruben Spaargaren have fulfilled their favourite role at the Dutch Tennis Championships 2022. De Groot defeated Aniek van Koot (6-2 6-4) in the title battle, while Spaargaren managed to deal with Maikel Scheffers 6-2 7-6(2). Read more….
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Wheelchair tennis player De Groot closes the year perfectly with a world title: ‘Enjoyed the audience’
Diede de Groot has been without defeat in international wheelchair tennis for almost two years. Today she concluded another perfect season with the world title. And that in her own country. Click HERE for the NOS news broadcast
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Diede de Groot has completed the ‘calendar slam’, winning the title at all grand slam tournaments in one calendar year. The number one in the world was too strong for the Japanese Yui Kamiji in the final of the US Open: 3-6 6-1 6-1. Earlier this year, De Groot already won the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Click HERE for the rest of the article.
Source: ADDiede de Groot has won her fourth Wimbledon title and fifteenth grandslam title in het carreer. The wheelchair tennisplayer defeated the Japanese Yui Kamiji in the final in two sets: 6-4, 6-2. Click HERE for the whole article.
This Saturday Wheelchair tennisplayer Diede de Groot achieved het fourteenth singles grandslamtitel. The 25 year old dutch defeated the Japanese Yui Kamiji in the Roland Garros singles final in two straight sets: 6-4 6-1.
Last year the number 1 and 2 in the ranking also battled it out in the final in Paris. Also then De Groot won the match: 6-4 6-3.
De Groot hasn’t lost a match since februari 2021. Her victory in de final at Roland Garros means het 50th win in a row. Last year De Groot won all grandslam tournaments and the paralympic title, which completed the so called golden grand slam. De Groot was the first female tennis player to accomplish the golden slam since Steffi Graf in 1988.
Esther Vergeer remains the most succesfull wheelchair tennisplayer of all time with 21 singles grandslam titels.
Fighting for a medal, giving everything for a cup: sport is about winning, and about conquer. Because you don’t become number 1 just like that. Lumosa literally puts athletes in the spotlight to get the very best out of themselves. Today and tomorrow. Winners never quit, quitters never win. Led the game start.Diede has been ambassador of Lumosa since 2022. Together they fight for a better and more sustainable world. The common denominator? Only want to achieve the very best. Want to be the very best. Win and win together! A joint mission, in which Lumosa is happy to support Diede.
Road to ParisWith love and pleasure, Lumosa will follow Diede de Groot closely in her ‘Road to Paris’ for three years. In other words: the Paralympic Summer Games of 2024. The sports tournament for every top athlete and therefore a milestone to look forward to. A family business, in which warmth and personality are central, requires long-term cooperation. Loyalty is the keyword for Lumosa.
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Diede de Groot has defended her title at the Australian Open with a great display of power. The 25-year-old wheelchair tennis player defeated her doubles partner Aniek van Koot in just 58 minutes of tennis: 6-1, 6-1.
For De Groot, who has dominated wheelchair tennis since 2018, this means her thirteenth grand slam title in singles. Last season she became the first wheelchair tennis player to achieve the golden slam: winning all grand slam tournaments and a gold medal at the Paralympic Games in the same year. In Melbourne, De Groot and Van Koot had already won the doubles title together on Wednesday. Despite all the prizes won by Van Koot and De Groot, Esther Vergeer still leads the list of honour: in singles alone she has won 30 grand slam tournaments. Next tot hat she has also won 24 Grand Slam titles in doubles. In addition tot he fact that this was in a time when fewer events were organised. Schröder beats crowd favorite Alcott In the quad category (the category for tennis players with disabilities in both arms and legs), Sam Schröder took his second grand slam title. The winner of the US Open in 2020 was to strong for Australian crowd favorite Dylan Alcott: 7-5, 6-0.
The final was a repeat of the Tokyo Paralympic final. In which Schröder, the number two in the world ranking, had to acknowledge defeat against Alcott and settle for the silver medal.
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During the Dutch national tennis championships the annual KNLTB Tennis Awards for wheelchair tennis players were presented at the National Tennis Center in Amstelveen. Diede de Groot received the award for best wheelchairtennis player, from topsport manager Dennis Sporrel, for her outstanding performance this year. Maarten ten Hoftte received the Encouragement Price.
Who else but Diede de Groot deserves the prize for best wheelchair tennis player 2021. The global superstar made history by realizing the Golden Slam. The world number one won all Grand Slam tournaments and added a gold medal at the Paralympic Games. Yesterday Diede was also chosen as Paralympic Best Female Athlete of the Year.
The presentation of the KNLTB Tennis Awards took place at the NTC in Amstelveen during the TennisDirect Dutch national tennis championships. Most of the festivities were canceled due to the corona measures. Topsport manager Dennis Sporrel presented the award to Diede in a adjusted ceremony. The KNLTB Tennis Awards for Best male Tennis Player , Best female Tennis Player and Best Doubles Player of 2021 were awarded last week to respectively Botic van de Zandschulp, Arantxa Rus and Matwé Middelkoop. The Incentive Prize will be awarded at a later date.
Incentive prize
Maarten ter Hofte was awarded the Wheelchair Tennis Incentive Prize. Maarten has gone through a very good and beautiful development in the past year. In addition to a nice 3rd place (youth) at WTC in Sardinia, he has proven several times to be the best at the various national and international youth tournaments, with the reward of a nice 3rd place in the ITF youth ranking. He is now ranking 156 in the ITF single ranking (seniors) and in 229 in the doubles.
Best Female Athlete The Paralympic Sports Awards were presented today by the International Paralympic Committee. It’s impressive to see all the images of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo again and it is amazing to see the impressive list of nominated athletes. I would like to thank the IPC for everything they do to make parasports possible. And it is really special to receive the title ‘Best Female Athlete’! Click HERE for the entire award ceremony.
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Diede de Groot has made history in New York. The Dutch wheelchair tennis player accomplished a so called Golden Grand Slam by being the best at the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, the Paralympic Games and now also the US Open in the same year.
She defeated her Japanese rival Yui Kamiji in the final 6-3, 6-2. Yesterday, De Groot also won the women’s doubles title at the US Open together with Aniek van Koot. For the fourth year in a row De Groot is the strongest at the US Open. More than a week ago, De Groot, the number 1 in the world, also took the Paralympic title in Tokyo at the expense of her Asian rival. “I can’t wait to go home and celebrate with family and friends, who took the time to watch all the matches in the middle of the night. What am I most looking forward to? Doing nothing at all. It has been such a tough trip, also because of the pressure i experienced, being the number one and on the verge of accomplishing a golden slam. But I did not let the pressure get to me,” said De Groot. ,,Immediately after the last point there was relief, and a bit later came the joy. I wanted this so badly. I’m looking forward to enjoying the rest of the season a little more and playing with a little less pressure.” De Groot is the first tennisplayer to win a Golden Grand Slam since Steffi Graf in 1988. The German won Olympic gold in Seoul and won all grand slam tournaments that year, like De Groot.
For De Groot, the win in New York is her twelfth grand singles slam title in total. She also took the doubles title in New York yesterday with Aniek van Koot.
Novak Djokovic (34) can surpass Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer tonight by winning his 21st Grand Slam. After Don Budge (in 1938) and Rod Laver (in 1962 and 1969), the Serb could become the third male tennis player to win all four Grand Slams in a calendar year. In the women’s league, Maureen Connolly (in 1953), Margaret Court (in 1980) and Steffi Graff (in 1988) managed to capture all four Grand Slams in a calendar year. The latter also won gold at the Olympic Games that year. In doubles, there were fourteen players who won a Golden Slam.