The Dutch player comes into this year’s US Open undefeated in singles since February 2021 and has her sights set on victory once again
utch wheelchair tennis champion Diede de Groot is so dominant within her sport that she’s capable of literary alchemy – she transmutes hyperbole into fact. For example, although de Groot enters this year’s US Open as the tournament’s five-time reigning champion, it might be more accurate to describe her as the reigning “everything” champion. She’s won every singles tournament she’s entered this year – just as she did in 2022.
The comparison to Williams is especially apt. Like Williams, de Groot’s doubles tennis résumé is extraordinary, if slightly less flawless than her recent singles record. Indeed, writing out de Groot’s accomplishments in doubles tennis so soon after reciting her singles tennis achievements can seem like a copy-and-paste error.
“I think it’s one thing to get [to the top of the sport],” she says. “But to do it for many years in a row has been more difficult … It takes so much more discipline, strength and energy to keep it up … When I wasn’t No 1, the goals were really simple: like, I needed to get a better forehand, for example. Now, because I’m there … [the motivation] has to come from within, and that’s what I’m so proud of. I always find these little things to work on.
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