The 21st century
Australia · born Melbourne, 1990 · first Wimbledon quad wheelchair singles champion · Golden Slam 2021
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Wimbledon quad singles titles, 2019 and 2021
6-0, 6-2
First Wimbledon quad singles final, in 50 minutes
15
Major quad singles titles
2021
Calendar Golden Slam in quad singles
Born in Melbourne in 1990, Alcott first made his name in wheelchair basketball, winning Paralympic gold with Australia's Rollers at Beijing in 2008, aged 17, the world title in 2010 and silver at London in 2012. He then returned to tennis in the quad division. He won quad singles and doubles gold, with Heath Davidson, at Rio in 2016, and 15 major singles titles, seven of them at the Australian Open between 2015 and 2021. In 2021 he won all four majors and Paralympic gold in Tokyo, a calendar Golden Slam. He retired after losing the 2022 Australian Open final to Sam Schröder, and was named Australian of the Year in 2022. He set up the Dylan Alcott Foundation in 2017 and the Ability Fest music festival, and has presented on radio and television.
| Major singles titles | 2: Wimbledon (2019, 2021) |
|---|---|
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2019) |
| Wimbledon doubles | 2019 champion with Andy Lapthorne, beating Koji Sugeno and David Wagner 6-2, 7-6 on Court 14 in the first quad doubles final; 2021 runner-up with Sam Schröder, losing to Lapthorne and Wagner 1-6, 6-3, 4-6 |
| Finals to remember | 2019: beat Lapthorne 6-0, 6-2 in 50 minutes on Court 12 in the first quad singles final. 2021: beat Schröder 6-2, 6-2 after a 90-minute rain delay, hitting 33 winners |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Quad doubles | with Andy Lapthorne |
| 2019 | Quad singles | |
| 2021 | Quad singles | |
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
"I just love Wimbledon. I get emotional thinking about Wimbledon."
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Wimbledon 2019 · Court 14
In the first quad doubles final at Wimbledon he and Andy Lapthorne were laughing in the first set: "We are at Wimbledon now... This is sick." He took in the sun, the grass and spectators drinking Pimm's. They beat Koji Sugeno and David Wagner 6-2, 7-6 to become the first names on the quad doubles board.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeWimbledon 2019 · Court 12
The next day he beat his doubles partner Lapthorne 6-0, 6-2 in 50 minutes to complete a set of all four major singles titles, which the press called the Dylan Slam. He was unimpressed by the label: "The 'Dylan Slam' is cool, but no one cares as much unless you win the Grand Slam." Then: "One more to go, baby."
Source: Tennis AustraliaWimbledon 2021
Back after a lockdown year, he said he was "breathing in the grass" and watching people "smashing Pimm's", and noticed Wallaby jerseys in the crowd. Asked whether it might be his last Wimbledon: "Potentially, for sure. I don't know how many years I have got left." He added that everyone loved talking about the Golden Slam more than he did.
Source: ITFNew York 2019 to London 2021
Losing the 2019 US Open final to Lapthorne ended his first calendar Grand Slam bid. He credited the mindset coach Ben Crowe with helping him recover, and said of his disrupted build-up to Wimbledon two years later that "sometimes perfect preparation is dangerous because things go too well."
Source: ITFBeijing 2008
Before tennis made him famous he was the youngest gold medallist in the history of the Rollers, Australia's wheelchair basketball team, at 17. "To be 17 and win gold... well it just doesn't get any better than that," he said. Later came a Triple J radio show, a Logie award in 2019 and wheelchair crowd-surfing at music festivals.
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