Source: NOS Wheelchair tennis player Diede de Groot has won the Laureus Award for best athlete with a disability. The 27-year-old De Groot received the prestigious award at a gala in Madrid. Read more…
Diede de Groot has won her 20e Grand Slam-title
Source: nu.nl
Diede de Groot won a twentieth Grand Slam title at the US Open on Sunday. With the victory in New York, the 26-year-old Dutch woman is approaching the record of former wheelchair tennis player and compatriot Esther Vergeer. Read more….
ITF Awards
Gisteravond vonden de International Tennis Federation World Champions Awards in het mooie Victoria and Albert Museum plaats. Het was een bijzondere avond met vele toptennissers, goede speeches en verdiende awards. Een avond om met trots en veel plezier op terug te kijken!
Win at World Team Cup
Paralympic Athlete of the Year
Source: nu.nl
On Wednesday Max Verstappen and Irene Schouten were voted Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year at the NOC*NSF Sports Gala in Amsterdam. Diede de Groot became Paralympic Athlete of the Year at the expense of Jetze Plat (cycling and triathlon) and Sanne Voets (horse dressage). The 26-year-old wheelchair tennis player won all Grand Slam tournaments this year: the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. Read More…
De Groot equals Vergeer
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….
Enjoyed the audience
Source: NOS Sport
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
Diede de Groot writes history
“It was a battle”
Source: ADHERE for the whole article.
Diede 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. ClickDiede achieves her 14th grandslamtitel
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.