Diede de Groot

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In this Dutch name, the surname is de Groot, not Groot.
Diede de Groot
Diede de Groot tennis player 2014.jpg
Country (sports) Netherlands
Born (1996-12-19) 19 December 1996 (age 25)
Woerden, Netherlands
Singles
Career record242–58 (80.7%)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
French OpenW (2019, 2021)
WimbledonW (2017, 2018, 2021)
US OpenW (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
Other tournaments
MastersW (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
Paralympic GamesGold medal Paralympics.svg Gold Medal (2021)
Doubles
Career record150–48 (75.8%)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenW (2019, 2021, 2022)
French OpenW (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
WimbledonW (2018, 2019)
US OpenW (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
Other doubles tournaments
Masters DoublesW (2016, 2017)
Paralympic GamesGold medal Paralympics.svg Gold Medal (2021)
Team competitions
Champion (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
Medal record
Women's wheelchair tennis
Representing  Netherlands
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Women's singles
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Women's doubles
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Women's doubles
Last updated on: 10 June 2021.

Diede de Groot (born 19 December 1996) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player who is the current world No. 1 in both singles and doubles.

She is a 26-time Grand Slam champion, having won 13 major titles in both singles and doubles. In 2021, de Groot achieved the first calendar-year Super Slam in tennis history by winning all four singles major titles, the Paralympic gold medal in women's singles, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters singles title.[1] She had previously completed the calendar-year Grand Slam in doubles in 2019 alongside compatriot Aniek van Koot. Apart from her major titles, de Groot has won multiple Wheelchair Tennis Masters titles between 2016 and 2018 in both singles and doubles, as well as gold medals in both disciplines at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[2][3] She was part of the Dutch team which won the World Team Cup on eight occasions between 2011 and 2019.

Career[]

De Groot was born with unequal leg length and began her wheelchair tennis career at age seven.[4] She started playing on the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour in 2009 as a junior player.[5] During her time with the ITF, De Groot won the in 2013 in singles and doubles. The following year, she won the 2014 Junior Masters in doubles.[6]

De Groot made her first Grand Slam appearance at the 2017 Australian Open.[7] After placing in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and the 2017 French Open, de Groot won her first Grand Slam title at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships. She ended the 2017 Grand Slam tournaments with a finals finish at the 2017 US Open.[8] At the start of 2018, she won the 2018 Australian Open and appeared at the final of the 2018 French Open.[9] For the remaining Grand Slams of 2018, De Groot won the women's singles division at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships and her first US Open singles title at the 2018 US Open.[10][11] In 2019, de Groot rewon the Australian Open title in singles competition at the 2019 Australian Open.[12] At the 2019 French Open, de Groot completed her career Grand Slam when she won her first French Open singles title.[13] Her French Open title also made de Groot the first wheelchair tennis player to complete a Non-calendar year Grand Slam (win all four Grand Slam singles events in a row, but not in the same year).[14] At the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, de Groot ended her back to back singles wins when she was defeated by Aniek van Koot in the final.[15] In 2021, she won the Wimbledon Single Ladies Wheelchair championship.

In doubles, De Groot was a runner up in the 2017 Australian, French and Wimbledon championships.[8] After winning her first doubles title at the 2017 US Open, she lost at the 2018 Australian Open and co-won the doubles event at the 2018 French Open.[16] De Groot became the first woman in wheelchair tennis to win both the women's singles and doubles events at Wimbledon in July 2018.[10] She won her second US Open doubles title at the 2018 US Open alongside Yui Kamiji.[17] At the 2019 Australian Open, De Groot won her first Australian doubles title with Aniek van Koot alongside her singles title in January 2019.[18] At the following Grand Slams, De Groot and Van Koot won the 2019 doubles titles at the French Open and Wimbledon.[14][19]

Outside of the Grand Slam tournaments, De Groot competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in singles and doubles competitions. While De Groot did not medal in singles, she won a silver medal in women's doubles.[6] In Masters competitions, De Groot won the 2017 and 2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters in women's singles.[20][21] Competing in doubles, she won the 2016 Wheelchair Doubles Masters with Lucy Shuker and the 2017 Wheelchair Doubles Masters alongside Marjolein Buis.[22] She has also appeared at the in consecutive years from 2011 to 2019. At the World Team Cup, De Groot started as a junior in 2011 before competing a world team competitor in 2012.[5]

De Groot also competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning gold medals in both singles and doubles.

Golden Slam: 2021[]

In 2021, De Groot earned the calendar year Golden Slam, winning singles titles in the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open and the singles gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. She was the first professional wheelchair tennis player to achieve the feat in the history of the sport. She is also one of just three professional tennis players overall, and first since Steffi Graf in 1988, to accomplish the feat.

Awards and honors[]

In 2018, de Groot was named ITF World Champion in women's wheelchair tennis.[23] The following year, she was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability in 2019.[24]

Grand Slam performance timelines[]

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held. SR: strike rate (events won / competed). W–L: win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Wheelchair singles[]

Tournament 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Career SR Career Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open QF W W QF W W 4 / 6 66%
French Open QF F W SF W 2 / 5 40%
Wimbledon W W F NH W 3 / 4 75%
US Open F W W W W 4 / 5 80%

Wheelchair doubles[]

Tournament 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Career SR Career Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open F F W F W W 3 / 6 50%
French Open SF W W W W 4 / 5 80%
Wimbledon F W W NH SF 2 / 4 50%
US Open W W W F W 4 / 5 80%

References[]

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  2. ^ Brodsky, Samantha (2021-09-04). "Diede de Groot Won Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis Gold, and She Could Make History at the US Open". POPSUGAR Fitness. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  3. ^ "Wheelchair Tennis - de GROOT Diede - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 2021-09-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  6. ^ a b "Diede de Groot – Wheelchair tennis". Paralympics. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  7. ^ Winters, Max (6 January 2017). "De Groot and Davidson set for Grand Slam debuts as 2017 Australian Open entries are confirmed". Inside the Games. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Diede de Groot". Australian Open. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  9. ^ Pearce, Linda. "De Groot sets up all-Dutch women's final". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  10. ^ a b Stevenson, Gemma-Louise (16 July 2018). "Diede De Groot becomes first female player to win Wimbledon wheelchair singles and doubles titles in same year". Sky Sports. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  11. ^ Morgan, Liam (9 September 2018). "Alcott, Hewett and De Groot earn wheelchair singles titles at US Open". Inside the Games. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  12. ^ Diamond, James (26 January 2019). "De Groot continues dominance of women's wheelchair tennis with singles and doubles victories at Australian Open". Inside the Games. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  13. ^ McLean, Ross. "De Groot: 'I didn't want to be different anymore'". ITF. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  14. ^ a b "Roland Garros 2019: De Groot, Fernandez and Alcott prevail". International Paralympic Committee. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  15. ^ "Wimbledon 2019: Diede de Groot stunned". International Paraylmpic Committee. 14 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
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  17. ^ "US Open 2018: Diede de Groot edges closer to title". International Paralympic Committee. 9 September 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  18. ^ Maher, Erin (28 January 2019). "2019 US Open Spotlight: Diede de Groot". US Open. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  19. ^ "Wimbledon 2019: Aniek van Koot & Diede de Groot win women's wheelchair doubles". BBC Sport. 14 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  20. ^ "De Groot the latest Dutch player to win NEC Masters women's title". NEC Wheelchair Masters. 3 December 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  21. ^ "Alcott, Gerard, de Groot win 25th NEC Masters". ITF. 3 December 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  22. ^ "Buis and de Groot claim UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters glory on home soil". BNP Paribas World Team Cup. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2018.[permanent dead link]
  23. ^ "De Groot named 2018 women's wheelchair ITF world champion". ITF. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  24. ^ "Laureus World Sports Awards: 2019 shortlist". International Paralympic Committee. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2019.

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