Most consecutive wheelchair tennis singles matches won (female)

Esther Vergeer (Netherlands) had won 470 wheelchair tennis singles matches in a row, as of 7 September 2012. She extended her unbeaten streak at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, where she claimed an unprecedented fourth successive Paralympic title by beating her fellow Dutchwoman Aniek van Koot 6-0, 6-3 in the final at Eton Manor, UK. Vergeer, who has won a total of 26 Grand Slam singles titles since 2002, went through the London 2012 tournament without dropping a set. In the Telegraph Sport section dated 8 September 2012, chief sports writer Paul Hayward writes: "Under the sun of Eton Manor [the venue for the Paralympic tennis competition] she [Vergeer] dispatched her fellow Dutchwoman Aniek van Koot 6-0, 6-3 [in the final] to move one win closer to Jahangir Khan's [Pakistan] astonishing sequence of 555 victories in squash from the 1980s. Khan's rampage is about the only comparison sporting statisticians can find as Vergeer inflicts on her contemporaries a level of dominance that is bound to be billed as Clockwork Orange." Vergeer took up wheelchair tennis at the age of 12, four years after a life-saving operation on her spinal cord that cost her the use of her legs. See also record ID 78937 - most women's wheelchair singles ITF World Championships. Vergeer, 31, has been world champion for 12 consecutive years (2001-12) and has been world number one in women's wheelchair tennis since April 1999. She has won 26 Grand Slam singles titles (2002-12), 27 Grand Slam doubles titles (2002-12) and a total of seven Paralympic gold medals (four in singles and three in women's doubles). Vergeer's last singles defeat was to Daniela di Toro (Australia) at the Sydney International tournament on 30 January 2003. Between August 2004 and October 2006, Vergeer won 250 consecutive sets.