WIMBLEDON, England — Tokito Oda turned the youngest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in any self-discipline after defeating Alfie Hewett within the males’s wheelchair ultimate on Sunday.
The 17-year-old Japanese participant received 6-4, 6-2 on No. 1 Court to earn his second straight Grand Slam title after additionally successful the French Open in June.
“I’m still 17. So, I want to open a champagne, but I couldn’t,” Oda mentioned. “So I have to drink sparkling water.”
His French Open victory, the place he additionally beat Hewett within the ultimate, made Oda the youngest man to win a Grand Slam singles title in any self-discipline – excluding juniors – at 17 years, 33 days.
He was 17 years, 69 days when he received the Wimbledon title. Boris Becker was the youngest males’s singles champion on the All England Club at 17 years, 228 days in 1985.
In the ladies’s wheelchair doubles ultimate, Diede De Groot adopted up her singles victory by including one other title alongside Jiske Griffioen. The Dutch pair beat Yui Kamiji of Japan and Kgothatso Montjane of South Africa 6-1, 6-4.
PHOTOS: Tokito Oda wins wheelchair ultimate to change into youngest male Wimbledon champion
De Groot beat Griffioen within the singles ultimate on Saturday for her eleventh straight Grand Slam title and nineteenth total. She now has 17 in doubles, together with three at Wimbledon. It was the fifteenth main doubles title for Griffioen.
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