The 21st century
Spain · born Vigo, 1999 · right-handed · Wimbledon wheelchair doubles champion 2025
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2024
First major singles final, at Wimbledon
7-6, 7-5
Wimbledon doubles final win over Hewett and Reid
1
Doubles world ranking, first reached November 2022
2-24
Record against Alfie Hewett before Wimbledon 2025
Born in Vigo in 1999, De la Puente took up wheelchair tennis in 2010 and led the junior world rankings in 2016, the year he made his Paralympic debut in Rio. He won his first major doubles title at the 2022 US Open with Nicolas Peifer, beating Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid, and became doubles world No. 1 that November. At the Paris Paralympics in 2024 he reached the singles semi-finals and won doubles bronze with Daniel Caverzaschi, Spain's first Paralympic medal in wheelchair tennis. He reached No. 3 in the singles rankings and his second major singles final at the 2026 Australian Open, where Tokito Oda beat him 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. He has combined the tour with a degree in business administration.
| Major singles finals lost | 1: Wimbledon (2024) |
|---|---|
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2025) |
| Other grass doubles titles | 1: British Open (2024) |
| Wimbledon 2024 singles | Semi-final: beat world No. 1 Tokito Oda 6-4, 6-4. Final: lost to Alfie Hewett 2-6, 3-6 |
| Wimbledon doubles | 2025 with Ruben Spaargaren: beat the defending champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid 7-6, 7-5 in the final |
| Wimbledon singles semi-finals | 2025 and 2026 |
| British Open, Roehampton | Doubles champion 2024 with Joachim Gerard, beating Tom Egberink and Maikel Scheffers 1-6, 6-2, 10-7; runner-up 2025 with Ruben Spaargaren |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Ruben Spaargaren |
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
"Competing at Wimbledon, like Nadal did many times, would be a dream come true for me because it is the cradle of tennis."
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Vigo 2010
He was not sure about the sport when it was first suggested. "In the beginning, I did not like the idea of having to sit on a wheelchair to play tennis," he said. Trying it changed his mind: "I have always liked competing and wheelchair tennis has opened a whole world, unknown to me until then."
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeVigo 2016
As the junior world No. 1 preparing for Rio, he also played wheelchair basketball for a Vigo team in the Spanish second division. "I have lots of fun and it is very different from playing an individual sport such as wheelchair tennis, where all the pressure is on your shoulders," he said. Nadal, he added, "symbolizes hard work and humility."
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeParis 2024
At Roland Garros he and Daniel Caverzaschi won doubles bronze, the first Paralympic wheelchair tennis medal for Spain. He also became the first Spaniard to reach the Paralympic singles semi-finals, then lost the bronze medal match to Gustavo Fernández of Argentina.
Source: DiscapnetMadrid 2024
Three months after Paris he played Gustavo Fernández again, this time on the roof of the leaning Puerta de Europa towers in Madrid, 115 metres above the street. The match was filmed for a campaign by the Enrique Esteire Perla In Memoriam association, under the hashtag #BreakingBarriers, to promote sport for people with disabilities.
Source: DiscapnetWimbledon 2025 · Semi-final
He had beaten Alfie Hewett twice in 26 meetings since 2012 when they met in the semi-finals. "There are no rule books for big matches like this, it is a case of enjoying the moment," he said. "I know Alfie very well, since juniors." Hewett won, but two days later De la Puente and Spaargaren beat him and Reid for the doubles title.
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