LONDON – Japanese top seed Tokito Oda successfully defended his Wimbledon men’s wheelchair singles crown with a 6-1, 6-1 win over No. 2 seed Alfie Hewett of Britain on Sunday.<\/p>\n
With his sweeping victory, the 20-year-old collected his third singles championship at the All England Club and 10th career Grand Slam singles title.<\/p>\n
“I’m feeling just incredible,” Oda said. “When I won here the first time, I was 17. I didn’t know what kind of special place it is here. It’s been three years since then, and every year I come here I play with pride and play with pleasure.”<\/p>\n
Playing into the theme of Wimbledon’s dress code of white on-court attire, Oda contested this year’s tournament in a specially designed all-white chair.<\/p>\n
“I (was) always thinking that I want to try a white wheelchair because everybody (else) has a really cool wheelchair. And everybody gets dressed (in white) here,” he said.<\/p>\n
Oda’s win continued a stellar tournament for Japan’s wheelchair players, following Yui Kamiji’s women’s singles victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n
With her maiden Wimbledon title, the 32-year-old Kamiji followed Oda in completing the career Golden Slam, comprising all four majors and Paralympic gold.<\/p>\n
Kamiji added another trophy to her cabinet on Sunday as she and Zhu Zhenzhen of China were 6-4, 7-5 winners against China’s Li Xiaohui and Wang Ziying in the women’s wheelchair doubles final.<\/p>\n
Oda and Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez were beaten by British top seeds Hewett and Gordon Reid in the men’s wheelchair doubles final 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON – Japanese top seed Tokito Oda successfully defended his Wimbledon men’s wheelchair singles crown with a 6-1,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-797067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}