The 21st century
United States · born San Diego, 1990 · Wimbledon doubles champion 2022 · retired 2024
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Wimbledon doubles title, 2022, with Yui Kamiji
6-1, 7-5
Final against the top seeds
1st
American woman to win a wheelchair major
3
Paralympic Games, 2016 to 2024
32
Career doubles titles
Born in San Diego in 1990, Mathewson picked up a racquet at 13 through adaptive tennis at the Barnes Tennis Center in Point Loma. She attended the University of Arizona, studied audiology in London, earned a doctorate in audiology in May 2023, and moved to Orlando to train full time at the USTA national campus. She reached No. 7 in the world in singles and No. 4 in doubles, the 2017 US Open doubles final and the 2019 US Open singles semi-finals, and played three Paralympics, from Rio in 2016 to Paris in 2024. At the Parapan American Games she won doubles gold in 2019 and singles and doubles gold in 2023, when she was the US flag-bearer. She won 16 singles and 32 doubles titles and retired in November 2024, after the Masters events.
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2022) |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon doubles | 2022 with Yui Kamiji: beat Kgothatso Montjane and Lucy Shuker 6-4, 6-2, then the top seeds Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot 6-1, 7-5 in the final |
| Wimbledon singles | Quarter-final 2022, her debut: lost to Diede de Groot 6-1, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Yui Kamiji |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"My name is going to be in gold on the wall at Wimbledon for the rest of my life."
The person behind the player.
San Diego · aged 13
"I didn't think I would be an athlete. I thought that whole part of my life was done," she said of her childhood. Adaptive tennis at the Barnes Tennis Center in Point Loma changed that, and she called the sport "a huge part of me finding my independence".
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, via inklWimbledon 2022 · Singles
Her first Wimbledon singles match was a 6-1, 6-1 defeat by the world No. 1, Diede de Groot. In the doubles final she and Kamiji met de Groot and Aniek van Koot, the top seeds, and won 6-1, 7-5, the Dutch pair making 16 unforced errors to their three.
Source: Team USAWimbledon 2022
She called the title "pretty surreal" and took comfort that her name would be painted in gold on the wall at the All England Club. One thing was missing from her fortnight. "I'm really sad I never got to have my strawberries and cream," she said.
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, via inklUS Open 2023
At her last US Open she explained why she would stop after Paris: top players spend 20 to 25 weeks a year on the road. "I love competing, I love tennis, it's just the lifestyle I'm ready to hang up." Her idol growing up, she said, had been the American Paralympian Karin Korb, who "was strong and beautiful".
Source: ITFSantiago 2023
At the Parapan American Games in Chile she was chosen as a US flag-bearer, in part for her work in opening a path for wheelchair tennis and inspiring the next generation. She then won gold in both singles and doubles, four years after doubles gold and singles bronze in Lima.
Source: USTANovember 2024
She announced her retirement on Instagram during the week of the Masters events, her last as a professional, with plans to coach, commentate, mentor players and run tournaments. "Tennis and I aren't breaking up, we're simply forming a new relationship, and I can't wait," she said.
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