The 21st century
Netherlands · born Hardenberg, 1992 · Wimbledon doubles champion at 19 · Paralympic singles silver, Tokyo 2020
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Wimbledon doubles title, 2012
19
His age when he won Wimbledon
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Best Wimbledon singles run, 2021 and 2022
13
Years between Wimbledon and Eastbourne doubles titles
Born in Hardenberg in 1992, Egberink tried several sports before settling on wheelchair tennis, which he said gave him the right balance of thrill and energy. At 15 he went to the Beijing Paralympics as a spectator; at 19 he won the Wimbledon doubles with Michaël Jérémiasz. His best singles came later. At the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021, ranked eighth in the world, he beat Alfie Hewett to reach the final and took silver behind Shingo Kunieda, adding doubles bronze with Maikel Scheffers. He reached the Australian Open singles semi-finals in 2022, the Wimbledon singles quarter-finals in 2021 and 2022, and doubles semi-finals at the Australian and US Opens. In 2025 he won the Eastbourne doubles with Daniel Caverzaschi.
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2012) |
|---|---|
| Other grass doubles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2025) |
| Wimbledon doubles | 2012 with Michaël Jérémiasz: beat the top seeds Robin Ammerlaan and Ronald Vink 6-4, 6-2 in the final |
| Wimbledon singles | Quarter-finals 2021 and 2022 |
| Eastbourne | 2025 doubles with Daniel Caverzaschi: beat Andrew Penney and Ji Zhenxu 6-3, 6-1 in the final |
| British Open, Roehampton | 2024 doubles final with Maikel Scheffers: lost to Martín de la Puente and Joachim Gérard 6-1, 2-6, 7-10 in a match tiebreak |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Michaël Jérémiasz |
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"I was the underdog the whole week."
The person behind the player.
Beijing 2008
Egberink's first Paralympics was spent in the stands. "I didn't play, I was just watching," he recalled in Tokyo 13 years later. Watching Robin Ammerlaan, a former world No. 1, he thought he could compete at that level one day, and before Tokyo he had never gone beyond the last 16 at a Paralympic Games.
Source: ITFWimbledon 2012
On the final Sunday, Egberink and Michaël Jérémiasz beat the top seeds Robin Ammerlaan and Ronald Vink 6-4, 6-2, their tenth successive win as a pair across three tournaments. It was the first major title for the partnership, and Jérémiasz put it down to two players who had played "like brothers".
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeSt Maarten, 2019
After finishing third at the Doubles Masters in Orlando, he took a short break in St Maarten and spent an afternoon with about 40 children at the Raoul Illidge Stadium courts, showing them how to move the chair and hit. Of his own start, he told them: "It was totally new to me but I really enjoyed it."
Source: The Daily HeraldTokyo 2021 · Semi-final
Against Alfie Hewett, the Rio finalist and second seed, he won the first set 6-4 and led the second-set tiebreak with two match points. Hawk-Eye ruled that one of Hewett's returns had caught the line, and the match went on until Hewett hit a forehand long. Egberink won 6-4, 7-6.
Source: ITFTokyo 2021 · Final
Before the gold medal match he called Shingo Kunieda "the man here in Japan" and said he would play his own game. Kunieda won 6-1, 6-2 at his home Games. Egberink took the silver, and doubles bronze with Maikel Scheffers, and summed up his week: he had been the underdog throughout.
Source: ITFEastbourne 2025
A year after losing the British Open doubles final at Roehampton in a match tiebreak, Egberink returned to the English grass with Daniel Caverzaschi and won the Eastbourne doubles at Devonshire Park, beating Andrew Penney and Ji Zhenxu 6-3, 6-1 in the final, 13 years after his Wimbledon title.
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