First wheelchair tennis player to complete a “Career Golden Slam” in singles (male)

Shingo Kunieda (Japan) won the wheelchair singles title at the Wimbledon Championships on 10 July 2022 to become the first man to claim the singles crown at all four Grand Slam tournaments in addition to Paralympic gold. Kunieda won the Australian Open in 2007-11, 2013-15, 2018, 2020 and 2022, the French Open in 2007-10, 2014-15, 2018 and 2022 and the US Open in 2007, 2009-11, 2014-15 and 2020-21. He took singles gold at the Paralympic Games at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and on home soil at Tokyo 2021.

Kunieda’s Wimbledon success in 2022 also meant that he completed a Career Grand Slam (winning the four majors) and a Career Super Slam (winning all four majors, Paralympic gold and the year-end Masters event, in 2012-14) in singles competition. Kunieda is the only man to hold all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously (US Open 2021, Australian Open 2022, French Open 2022, Wimbledon 2022). In the women’s game and overall, Dutch player Diede de Groot was the first wheelchair player to claim a Career Golden Slam (after winning Paralympic gold in singles at Tokyo 2021). Kunieda completed a Career Golden Slam in doubles as far back as 2008 (after winning the first of his French Open titles that year).