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Netherlands · born 's-Hertogenbosch, 1982 · Wimbledon wheelchair doubles champion 2011 · former world No. 1 in singles and doubles
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Wimbledon doubles title, 2011 with Ronald Vink
6-0, 6-3
Semi-final win over the 2010 champions
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Major titles, two singles and four doubles
No. 1
Singles ranking, December 2011
Born in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1982 and based in Dorst, North Brabant, Scheffers reached No. 1 in the doubles rankings in June 2011 and in singles that December. He won the French Open singles in 2011 and the Australian Open in 2012, after losing the 2009 US Open final, and took major doubles titles at the French Open in 2008, the US Open in 2010 and 2013, the Australian Open in 2011 and Wimbledon in 2011. He won the season-ending Masters in singles in 2009 and in doubles three times. At four Paralympic Games he won the singles bronze in Beijing in 2008 and the doubles bronze in Tokyo with Tom Egberink, and he added a singles bronze at the 2023 European Championships in Rotterdam.
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2011) |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon doubles | 2011 with Ronald Vink, as top seeds: beat the holders Robin Ammerlaan and Stefan Olsson 6-0, 6-3 in the semi-final, then Stéphane Houdet and Michaël Jérémiasz 7-5, 6-2 in the final |
| Wimbledon singles | Quarter-finals in 2016 and 2017, the first two years of the men's wheelchair singles event |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2011 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Ronald Vink |
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Wimbledon 2011
Scheffers and Ronald Vink, the top seeds, met the holders Robin Ammerlaan and Stefan Olsson in the semi-final and won 6-0, 6-3. In the final they beat Stéphane Houdet and Michaël Jérémiasz 7-5, 6-2. It was Scheffers's first Wimbledon title and Vink's third, and Scheffers spoke of the feeling "to finally be a Wimbledon champion".
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeBeijing 2008
At his first Paralympic Games Scheffers won the singles bronze medal. Looking back in 2016, he said he had been very happy with it because he had gone to Beijing without any expectations. Shingo Kunieda took the gold and his compatriot Robin Ammerlaan the silver.
Source: Omroep BrabantLondon 2012
By London he was aiming for gold or silver. He lost the singles semi-final to the world No. 1 and then the bronze-medal match to Ronald Vink, his Wimbledon doubles partner of the year before. He said later that he felt he had failed and was grumpy for three days.
Source: Omroep BrabantOff court
While still playing he studied for a master's in sport management at the Johan Cruyff Institute and wrote a business plan for the Johan Cruyff Foundation on getting more children active. He said disabled athletes had to be inventive to find sponsors because they received little media attention.
Source: Johan Cruyff InstituteTokyo 2021
At his fourth Paralympic Games, held in 2021, Scheffers and Tom Egberink lost their semi-final and then beat the Japanese pair Shingo Kunieda and Takashi Sanada 6-3, 6-2 for the doubles bronze, thirteen years after his singles bronze in Beijing.
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