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Israel · born Ramat Gan, 1980 · quad player · Wimbledon quad doubles champion 2025 and 2026
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6
Consecutive major doubles titles with Niels Vink
2
Roland Garros quad singles titles, 2024 and 2025
2018
Year he took up wheelchair tennis seriously
6-0, 6-1
British Open doubles final, 2026
Born in Ramat Gan in 1980, Sasson played tennis as a boy and football at school, did his military service and studied finance at the University of Michigan before a career in property investment. He was injured in a snowboarding accident in the French Alps in 2015, took up wheelchair tennis seriously in 2018 and won the Israeli championship a year later. In the quad division he won Roland Garros in 2024, beating Sam Schröder in a deciding tiebreak, and again in 2025 against Niels Vink, and took Paralympic bronze in Paris in 2024. With Vink he won six major doubles titles in a row from Roland Garros 2025. On grass in 2026 he won the British Open singles and doubles at Roehampton and kept the Wimbledon doubles with Vink, after losing the singles semi-final to him.
| Major doubles titles | 2: Wimbledon (2025, 2026) |
|---|---|
| Other grass singles titles | 1: British Open (2026) |
| Other grass doubles titles | 2: British Open (2025, 2026) |
| Wimbledon quad doubles | All with Niels Vink. 2025: beat Donald Ramphadi and Greg Slade 6-0, 6-2. 2026: beat Sam Schröder and Jin Woodman 6-2, 6-1. Final lost 2024 |
| Wimbledon quad singles | Semi-finals 2024 and 2026, quarter-final 2025 |
| British Open, Roehampton | 2025 doubles with Vink, beat Schröder and Ahmet Kaplan 6-2, 6-3. 2026 singles, beat Jin Woodman 4-6, 6-4, 6-0, his first grass singles title; 2026 doubles with Vink, beat Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade 6-0, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Quad doubles | with Niels Vink |
| 2026 | Quad doubles | with Niels Vink |
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"I think today he played better than me."
The person behind the player.
Ramat Gan, 1997 to 2019
At school he played in a football team that won a national championship and went to the high school world championship in Lima in 1997. Two decades later, after starting wheelchair tennis seriously at the Israel ParaSport Center in 2018, he won the national wheelchair singles title within about a year.
Source: Wikipedia2015
"I got injured 10 years ago, when I was 35," he said in 2025. "I spent a year in hospital for rehabilitation." Looking for somewhere to train, he found a sports centre in Ramat Gan that introduced him to wheelchair tennis. He had played as a boy, "not professionally". "One step led to another, and here we are."
Source: The Jewish ChronicleWimbledon 2025
He lost his singles match after holding a match point: "I had a match point, and it didn't go my way." A supporter's message quoting the verse "We will rise like a young lion" kept him going, and later that week he and Niels Vink won the doubles on Court 3. "Finally, I did," he said.
Source: Jewish NewsOn tour
"Representing Israel is one of the most important things for me," he says, and supporters bring flags to his matches in London, Paris and Melbourne. Many people with disabilities, injured soldiers among them, write to him after watching him play.
Source: The Jewish ChronicleWimbledon 2026
A day after Vink beat him in the singles semi-final, the pair retained the doubles title 6-2, 6-1 against Sam Schröder and Jin Woodman, their sixth major in a row. Vink, 23, joked that his 46-year-old partner "makes me feel young". Sasson said: "I have a great partner and we complete each other as a team."
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