Youngest winner of the French Open Wheelchair Men's Singles title

The youngest winner of the French Open Wheelchair Men's Singles title is Tokito Oda (Japan, b. 8 May 2006) who was 17 years 33 days old when he won the 2023 edition, in Paris, France, on 10 June 2023.

Tokito Oda (Japan, b. 8 May 2006) won his maiden Grand Slam wheelchair singles title at the French Open on 10 June 2023 when he was 17 years 33 days old. Oda’s second-ever appearance in a Grand Slam final culminated in a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Alfie Hewett on Court Philippe-Chatrier.

Oda is the youngest-ever male winner of a Grand Slam singles title (any discipline, excluding juniors), erasing Boris Becker’s Wimbledon triumph in 1985, at the age of 17 years 227 days, from the record books.

In wheelchair tennis specifically, the youngest male singles or quad singles champions at any of the four Grand Slams before Oda’s emergence were both crowned at Roland Garros: Hewett (b. 6 December 1997; French Open wheelchair singles winner in 2017, aged 19 years 186 days) and Niels Vink (French Open quad singles winner in 2022, aged 19 years 180 days).

Oda, Vink and Hewett are the only three male teenagers to win a title since wheelchair singles (Australian Open, 2002) and quad singles (US Open, 2007) were first introduced at the Slams. Oda went on to win the wheelchair singles at Wimbledon on 16 July 2023, aged 17 years 69 days, to cement his place at the top of the world rankings. Oda was born in Aichi Prefecture. He was diagnosed with bone cancer in his left hip as a nine-year-old, but defied the odds to begin a career as a wheelchair tennis player soon after.