Two-time defending champion
Shingo Kunieda
is a Japanese former wheelchair tennis player. With four Paralympic gold medals, 28 major singles titles – an all-time record in singles of any tennis discipline – and 50 major titles overall, Kunieda is widely considered the greatest male ...
and his partner
Frédéric Cattaneo
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defeated
Michael Jérémiasz
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and
Stefan Olsson
Stefan Olsson (born 24 April 1987) is a former Swedish wheelchair tennis
Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis Adaptive sport, adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there ar ...
in the final, 3–6, 7–6
(7–3),
0–6to win the men's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2012 French Open.
Kunieda and
Nicolas Peifer
Nicolas Peifer (born 13 October 1990 in Strasbourg) is a French wheelchair tennis player. In doubles, Peifer has completed the career Super Slam, having won all four majors, a Paralympic gold medal in 2016, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters o ...
were the reigning champions, but Peifer withdrew due to a right-hand injury.
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Stéphane Houdet
Stéphane Houdet (born 20 November 1970) is a French wheelchair tennis player. Houdet is a former singles and doubles world number one. In 2014, he became the first man in history to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam in men's wheelchair dou ...
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Maikel Scheffers
Maikel Scheffers (born 7 September 1982) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. He plays singles and doubles events. Scheffers was born with spina bifida. He lives in Dorst.
He has won six Grand Slam titles—two in wheelchair singles and four ...
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Robin Ammerlaan
Robin Ammerlaan (born 26 February 1968 in The Hague) is a Dutch former professional wheelchair tennis player. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, Ammerlaan is a 14-time major champion and two-time Paralympic gold medalist. The righ ...
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Ronald Vink
Ronald Vink (born 21 April 1976) is a professional wheelchair tennis player from the Netherlands. He specializes in doubles but also plays singles.
Grand Slam performances
Vink has reached grand slam wheelchair doubles finals, capturing his fir ...
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Draw
Finals
References
Main Draw
{{DEFAULTSORT:2012 French Open - Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Wheelchair Men's Doubles
2012 Men's Doubles