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2020 French Open – Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Two-time defending champions Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot defeated Yui Kamiji and Jordanne Whiley Jordanne Joyce Whiley MBE (born 11 June 1992) is a British retired wheelchair tennis player. Aged 14, she became Britain's youngest ever national women's singles champion in wheelchair tennis. She has osteogenesis imperfecta as does her father ... in the final, 7–6(7–2), 3–6, 0–8to win the women's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2020 French Open. Seeds Draw Finals References External links Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2020 French Open - Wheelchair Women's Doubles Wheelchair Women's Doubles 2020 Women's Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diede De Groot
Diede de Groot (; born 19 December 1996) is a Dutch professional wheelchair tennis player who was world No. 1 in both singles and doubles. De Groot is a 42-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major champion, having won a record 23 titles in singles and 19 in doubles. De Groot had a three-year, 145-match, winning streak in singles, from a defeat in February 2021 to Yui Kamiji until a defeat in May 2024 to Li Xiaohui (tennis), Li Xiaohui. During this streak she achieved the first calendar-year Grand Slam (tennis)#Super Slam, Super Slam in tennis history by winning all four major titles, the Summer Paralympic Games, Paralympic gold medal, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters title in women's singles in 2021. The following year, she became the first player in any discipline of tennis to defend the Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam and win all four majors in two consecutive years, and did so yet again in 2023. At the 2024 French Open – Wheelchair women's singles, 2024 French Open, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniek Van Koot
Aniek van Koot (born 15 August 1990) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles. Van Koot has won 26 major titles, having won the 2013 Australian Open, 2013 US Open and 2019 Wimbledon Championships in wheelchair singles combined with 23 major titles in doubles, variously partnering Florence Gravellier, Daniela di Toro, Jiske Griffioen and Diede de Groot. Van Koot has completed the calendar year Grand Slam in doubles on two occasions, in 2013 with Griffioen, and in 2019 alongside de Groot. She won the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in 2014 in singles, and in 2012, 2015 and 2018 in doubles. Van Koot has also won five Paralympic medals, gold in doubles at both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, silver in singles at London 2012 and Rio 2016, and silver in doubles at London 2012. Personal life Aniek van Koot was born with her right leg shorter than her left. After a series of unsuccessful corrective operations van Koot had her right leg amput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yui Kamiji
is a Japanese professional wheelchair tennis player. She has won 32 major titles, as well as a Paralympic silver and bronze medal in singles and doubles, respectively, at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She would later win gold in both at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. She also won a bronze medal in singles at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Partnering Jordanne Whiley, Kamiji achieved the Grand Slam in doubles in 2014, and also won the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in doubles. Kamiji is currently managed by Avex Group under its ''Avex Challenged Athletes'' program. 2013–present Kamiji won singles titles in Iizuka, Daegu, Paris, St Louis, and became the first and so far only non-Dutchwoman to win the tennis Masters title. Kamiji won doubles titles with Sharon Walraven in Pensacola, Sabine Ellerbrock in Iizuka. Ju-Yeon Park in Daegu, Jordanne Whiley in Paris and the Masters. With Ellerbrock in New York and Whiley at Wimbledon, Kamiji was the runner up. During the 2014 season Kamiji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordanne Whiley
Jordanne Joyce Whiley MBE (born 11 June 1992) is a British retired wheelchair tennis player. Aged 14, she became Britain's youngest ever national women's singles champion in wheelchair tennis. She has osteogenesis imperfecta as does her father, Keith, who was also a Paralympian and won a bronze medal in 1984 in New York. As well as the 2015 US Open in wheelchair singles, Whiley has won 9 Grand Slam doubles titles, and she & Japanese Yui Kamiji are the fourth team in women's wheelchair doubles (as well as the most recent players) to complete the Calendar Year Grand Slam. Whiley was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 Queens Birthday Honours list for services to wheelchair tennis.United Kingdom: Career Junior In 2006 at the age of 14 Whiley claimed her first senior main draw titles when she won the singles and doubles at the Cardiff Wheelchair Tennis tournament, also winning the girls title. At the end of 2006 Whiley had moved up from 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kgothatso Montjane
Kgothatso Montjane (born 3 June 1986) is a South African wheelchair tennis player. In 2024, she became the first black South African woman to win at Wimbledon when she won the wheelchair women's doubles. Early life Montjane was born in Seshego on the periphery of Polokwane, Limpopo with a congenital disorder which affected both of her hands and a foot with the other foot being amputated by the age of 12. Career Montjane is a successful wheelchair tennis player who is placed in the top 10 of the ITF ranking. Her highest rank was 5 in the world in 2005. She was named South Africa's disabled sportswoman of the year three times, in 2005, 2011 and 2015. Montjane holds 29 singles titles and won tournaments such as the wheelchair Belgian Open and Swiss Open. She is also successful in doubles, where she won, among others, the Belgian Open in 2015 together with Jordanne Whiley. In 2013 and 2014, she participated in 3 of the 4 Grand Slam tournaments, Australian Open, Roland Garros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Momoko Ohtani
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. Ohtani has been active in international competitions since 2016. Medical history Ohtani was born healthy. She has been playing tennis since the third grade of primary school. After completing secondary school (high school), she contracted an illness for which she was repeatedly hospitalized. Due to the side effects of medication, she developed cramps in her right leg with paralysis in her right foot, as well as a weakened right hand. Career In September 2016, Ohtani took part in the Osaka Open, an ITF3 wheelchair tournament, where she immediately reached the final. She won her first singles title in 2017 at the Vancouver (Canada) tournament. In 2019, she won the ITF2 tournament Brasilia Open in Brazil. In 2018, Ohtani won the bronze medal in the women's singles at the Asian Para Games in Jakarta. In September 2020, Ohtani took part in a grand slam tournament for the first time, at the US Open. A month later, at Roland Garros, she reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolein Buis
Marjolein Buis (born 11 January 1988) is a Dutch retired wheelchair tennis player. Buis won 18 singles titles and 52 doubles titles. She won the gold medal in the women's doubles event with Esther Vergeer along with six grand slam doubles and two masters titles. In 2016 Buis won her only grand slam singles title at the French Open. Buis had a career high ranking of No. 3 in singles and No. 1 in doubles. Marjolein Buis was born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. At the age of 14 she started to experience problems when walking. It turned out that she has a connective tissue disorder, the Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, which affects the stability of the joints. This left her unable to play able bodied sports. At the age of 17, Buis discovered wheelchair tennis. In 2010, she graduated in Social Work and became a full-time tennis player. She qualified for the Paralympic Games in London 2012 and reached the quarterfinal in singles and won gold in doubles with her partner Esther Vergeer. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Famin
Charlotte Famin (born 12 February 1973) is a French wheelchair tennis player who competes in international level events. She is a six-time French Open The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ... quarterfinalist and a 20-time French national wheelchair tennis champion. Famin lost her left leg in a motorbike accident in 2008. References External links * * * 1973 births Living people People from Puteaux Tennis players from Paris Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for France Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics French wheelchair tennis players {{France-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 French Open
The 2020 French Open was a Grand Slam (tennis), major tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. Originally scheduled for 24 May to 7 June, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was first moved to 20 September to 4 October 2020, then later moved back a week further to 27 September to 11 October 2020. Qualifying matches, comprising singles and doubles play, began 21 September. Junior and wheelchair tournaments were also scheduled. Rafael Nadal was the twelve-time and three-time-defending champion in men's singles; Ashleigh Barty was the defending champion in women's singles but chose not to defend her title following concerns over the pandemic. It was the 119th edition (90th as a Grand Slam) of the French Open and the last Grand Slam event of 2020. The main singles draws included 16 qualifiers for men and 12 for women out of 128 players in each draw. It was also the only Grand Slam tournament to retain the Glossary of ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
