Diede de Groot

Diede de Groot
De Groot at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports) Netherlands
Born (1996-12-19) 19 December 1996 (age 27)
Woerden, Netherlands
Singles
Career record405–67 (85.8%)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
French OpenW (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
WimbledonW (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
US OpenW (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Other tournaments
MastersW (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Doubles
Career record238–60 (79.9%)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenW (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
French OpenW (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
WimbledonW (2018, 2019, 2023)
US OpenW (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
Other doubles tournaments
Masters DoublesW (2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022)
Team competitions
World Team Cup 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
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Singles
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Doubles
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Rotterdam Women's singles

Diede de Groot (pronounced [ˈdidə ˈɣroːt] ; born 19 December 1996) is a Dutch professional wheelchair tennis player who is the current world No. 1 in both singles and doubles.[1]

De Groot is a 42-time 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.[2] During this streak she achieved the first calendar-year Super Slam in tennis history by winning all four major titles, the Paralympic gold medal, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters title in women's singles in 2021.[3][4] The following year, she became the first player in any discipline of tennis to defend the Grand Slam and win all four majors in two consecutive years, and did so yet again in 2023.[5] At the 2024 French Open, she became the first player ever to achieve the quintuple career Grand Slam.

In doubles, de Groot completed the Grand Slam in 2019, partnering 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.[6][7] She was part of the Dutch team that won the World Team Cup on eight occasions between 2011 and 2019.

  1. ^ "Diede De Groot Player Profile". Official Cite of the 2024 US Open Tennis Championships - A USTA Event. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  2. ^ "De Groot bids for 100th consecutive win". www.itftennis.com. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  3. ^ Chiesa, Victoria (12 September 2021). "Diede de Groot completes Golden Slam by winning 2021 US Open Wheelchair Competition". US Open. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021.
  4. ^ "First wheelchair tennis player to complete a "Career Super Slam" in singles". Guinness World Records. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2024. For good measure, she won all four majors again in 2021, plus Paralympic gold to complete an unprecedented calendar-year "Golden Slam", and rounded off 2021 with her fourth Masters win for professional tennis' first-ever calendar-year "Super Slam".
  5. ^ Klosok, Aleks (30 May 2024). "Diede de Groot: The unstoppable force in tennis leaving no stone unturned in pursuit of greatness". CNN. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  6. ^ Brodsky, Samantha (4 September 2021). "Diede de Groot Won Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis Gold, and She Could Make History at the US Open". POPSUGAR Fitness. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Wheelchair Tennis - de GROOT Diede - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 8 September 2021.