It is that singular focus that makes Vink great. The reason he\u2019s won eight quad singles Grand Slam titles since he won his first here in Paris, in 2022. Vink now sits second on the all-time list in that category behind legend Dylan Alcott.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When talking about Alcott, Vink gives off a tinge of regret. He would have loved to have earned a win against the 15-time major champion, but he never could manage it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so young and Dylan was almost retiring,\u201d he said. \u201cI never beat him, sadly. But I have a good relationship with him and I remember the last two years I played against him when I was in the Slams as well. \u2029And we always had good matches. It’s sad that I never won, but it’s fine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vink says the sport owes a lot to Alcott, who was not only a great player but a great ambassador.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, he did amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd also in Australia, we can feel it \u2013 that we are tennis players and not wheelchair tennis players.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is that singular focus that makes Vink great. The reason he\u2019s won eight quad singles Grand Slam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-714641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}