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Netherlands · born Winterswijk, 1990 · left-handed · Wimbledon wheelchair singles champion 2019 · three Wimbledon doubles titles
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Wimbledon singles finals, 2016 to 2024
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Wimbledon doubles titles, 2012, 2013 and 2019
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Head-to-head with De Groot before the 2019 final
No. 1
Singles ranking from January 2013
Born in Winterswijk in 1990, Van Koot took up wheelchair tennis at ten and was junior world No. 1 at 17. In January 2013 she became the senior singles No. 1, and that year she won the Australian Open and US Open singles, completed the doubles Grand Slam with Jiske Griffioen and was named ITF World Champion. She won the season-ending Masters singles in 2014 and repeated the doubles Grand Slam in 2019 with Diede de Groot, and her major doubles titles run past twenty. At the Paralympic Games she won two silver medals in London in 2012, doubles gold and singles silver in Rio in 2016, and doubles gold in Tokyo. In 2026 she won the first wheelchair event at the Miami Open.
| Major singles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2019) |
|---|---|
| Major singles finals lost | 3: Wimbledon (2016, 2018, 2024) |
| Major doubles titles | 3: Wimbledon (2012, 2013, 2019) |
| Wimbledon singles finals | 2016: lost to Jiske Griffioen 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 in the first women's wheelchair singles final. 2018: lost to Diede de Groot 6-3, 6-2. 2019: beat De Groot 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. 2024: lost to De Groot 6-4, 6-4 |
| Wimbledon doubles | 2012 and 2013 with Jiske Griffioen; 2019 with Diede de Groot. 2012 final: beat Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley 6-1, 6-2. 2019 final: beat Marjolein Buis and Giulia Capocci 6-1, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon doubles final lost | 2011 with Jiske Griffioen, to Esther Vergeer and Sharon Walraven 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, from 5-2 up in the final set |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2012 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Jiske Griffioen |
| 2013 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Jiske Griffioen |
| 2019 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Diede de Groot |
| 2019 | Women's wheelchair singles | |
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"If I would lose today, the world would still spin tomorrow."
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Wimbledon 2011
In her first Wimbledon doubles final Van Koot and Jiske Griffioen, the second seeds, led the holders Esther Vergeer and Sharon Walraven 5-2 in the deciding set. They lost 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. A year later the same pair won the title, beating the British pair Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley 6-1, 6-2.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeLondon 2012
At her first Paralympic Games she reached the singles final without losing a set and faced Esther Vergeer, unbeaten since 2003. "Each day is a new day, so who knows," she said beforehand. Vergeer beat her in the singles final and again in the doubles final, and Van Koot went home with two silver medals.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeWimbledon 2019 · Final
Van Koot trailed Diede de Groot 14-6 in their meetings and had lost the 2016 and 2018 finals. After almost two hours De Groot, who had saved two match points, served a double fault to lose 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. "It was third time lucky," said Van Koot, who had decided to stop thinking that winning was good and losing was bad.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeWimbledon 2019
The title was worth £46,000, and Van Koot had just bought a house in Dinxperlo, a small town in the east of the Netherlands. Asked about the prize money, she said: "I think I just won a couch. And I've got the kitchen table sorted."
Source: International Paralympic Committee2013
In January 2013 Van Koot took the No. 1 singles ranking from Esther Vergeer. She lost it to Sabine Ellerbrock in June, won it back after the US Open, and finished the year as ITF World Champion, the first after Vergeer. With Jiske Griffioen she won all four major doubles titles that year, including Wimbledon.
Source: Wikipedia2026
Interviewed for the 50th anniversary of wheelchair tennis, Van Koot said: "This is not just a game anymore. It's my job." Her request for the sport was more television coverage. People told her they had not known she was playing a World Masters or a Grand Slam, she said, "because you didn't see it. You didn't see it on the news."
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