From Grand Slam glory to Israel’s next generation of wheelchair tennis players
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- Israeli wheelchair tennis player Guy Sasson and Dutch partner Niels Vink will seek the US Open quad doubles title after winning the other three 2026 majors.
- A victory would complete a calendar-year Grand Slam, an achievement never recorded in men’s wheelchair doubles and previously achieved only once in men’s nondisabled doubles, in 1951.
- Sasson is also focused on singles and points to rising competitors and young players as wheelchair tennis standards continue to improve.
Guy Sasson has already won three wheelchair tennis majors with Niels Vink in 2026. At the US Open in New York, the 46-year-old Israeli has a chance to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam, something that has never been done in men’s wheelchair doubles.
Sasson and Vink have won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon doubles titles this year. The US Open wheelchair tournaments begin on September 8. If they win in Queens, they will have taken all four major championships in the same calendar year. The pair has already won all four majors across two seasons, after claiming the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 2025.
Our goal is all four in the same year. It has never been done.
“Our goal is all four in the same year,” Sasson told The Jerusalem Post before traveling to New York. “It has never been done.” The only men’s doubles team to complete a calendar Grand Slam previously was Australia’s Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman in 1951, in nondisabled tennis.
He makes me feel young.
Sasson and Vink regularly meet in singles as well as doubles. Vink beat Sasson in the Wimbledon semifinals, prompting Sasson to joke that Vink “makes me feel young.” He still described his partner as the better player in that match and said, “He is a very good player. I give him a lot of respect. It is a good challenge. I look forward to that.”
Sasson says singles remains his first priority despite his doubles success. He identifies Vink, Dutchman Sam Schroder and Turkey’s Ahmet Kaplan as leading rivals, while also noting the emergence of 17-year-old Australian Jin Woodman, who has beaten Vink, Schroder and Kaplan this year.
He is a very good player. I give him a lot of respect. It is a good challenge. I look forward to that.
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