Diede de Groot becomes the first player to complete the golden slam in wheelchair tennis

Diede de Groot became the archetypal subordinate to implicit the aureate slam successful wheelchair tennis aft winning each 4 majors and the Paralympic golden medal, completing the feat by winning the US Open last connected Sunday.

The Dutch apical effect bushed Japan's 2nd effect Yui Kamiji 6-3 6-2 successful the women's lucifer astatine the Louis Armstrong Stadium successful what was a repetition of the golden medal lucifer astatine the Tokyo Paralympic Games earlier this month.

"For a agelong clip it wasn't imaginable due to the fact that Wimbledon didn't person a singles event. For a fewer years present they've had it... it's conscionable large to spot the circuit and the professionalism going up each year," De Groot told reporters.

"To beryllium the archetypal 1 to really get that rubric is conscionable truthful special. I don't deliberation I volition ever hide that."

Not agelong aft connected Sunday, Australian apical effect Dylan Alcott besides completed a aureate slam successful his respective event, taking down Dutchman Niels Vink 7-5 6-2 successful the wheelchair quad singles final.

Alcott is the archetypal men's wheelchair tennis subordinate to implicit a aureate slam.

Also connected Sunday, Novak Djokovic missed retired on a calendar-year slam in the US Open men's last erstwhile helium mislaid to Daniil Medvedev successful a conflict of the apical 2 seeds. World No. 2 Medvedev won his archetypal expansive slam title, beating satellite No. 1 Djokovic successful consecutive sets.

Djokovic had been looking to triumph a grounds 21st expansive slam rubric and implicit the archetypal men's calendar expansive slam -- winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open successful the aforesaid twelvemonth -- since Rod Laver successful 1969.

Djokovic missed retired connected the accidental to triumph a aureate slam erstwhile helium was knocked retired successful the Olympic semis by eventual golden medal victor Alexander Zverev earlier losing the bronze medal lucifer to Pablo Carreno Busta.