Shingo Kunieda

Shingo Kunieda
Shingo Kunieda at the 2011 US Open
Nation:	Japan
Birthday:	February 21, 1984
Playing hand:	Right
singles
Career record:	538: 78
Highest ranking:	1 (October 9, 2006)
Current placement:	5
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	347: 92
Highest ranking:	1 (May 21, 2007)
Current placement:	12
Grand Slam record
Paralympic Games
Last update of the infobox: January 22nd, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Shingo Kunieda ( Japanese 国 枝 慎 吾 , Kunieda Shingo ; born February 21, 1984 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player .

Career

Shingo Kunieda has been in a wheelchair since she was nine years old because of a spinal cord tumor. He started wheelchair tennis when he was eleven.

In his tennis career he won every title that can be won in wheelchair tennis. He won the Australian Open nine times, the French Open six times and the US Open six times . There is no individual competition at Wimbledon . He won the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in 2012 and 2013. In total, he won over 50 individual tournaments. He was also able to win more than 50 tournaments in doubles, including at least once every Grand Slam tournament : twice the US Open, three times Wimbledon, seven times the French Open and eight times the Australian Open. He won the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in doubles in 2012. In the world rankings, he reached the top position in both singles and doubles. In singles he was first on October 9, 2006 in first position, in doubles on May 21, 2007. Between 2007 and 2010 and 2013 he was ITF Wheelchair World Champion . Between his defeat in the 2007 Masters finals and the 2010 Masters semifinals, he remained unbeaten for a total of three years or 106 games in a row.

So far, Shingo Kunieda has participated in the Paralympic Games three times. In 2004 in Athens he won the gold medal in doubles alongside Satoshi Saida . The two won in 2008 in Beijing together the bronze medal. Kunieda won gold in singles. He won another gold medal in singles in 2012 in London . When the 2010 Para-Asian Games were held in Guangzhou for the first time , he won gold in both singles and doubles. In 2014 he won gold in both disciplines. In 2016 he was eliminated from the singles quarter-finals against Gordon Reid at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the doubles competition he won the third joint medal with Satoshi Saida with bronze.

Shingo Kunieda graduated from Reitaku University in Kashiwa , where he has worked since then.

Web links

Commons : Shingo Kunieda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ITF profile Shingo Kunieda (English)