Wheelchair men's doubles | |
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2012 Wimbledon Championships | |
Champions | Tom Egberink Michaël Jeremiasz |
Runners-up | Robin Ammerlaan Ronald Vink |
Final score | 6–4, 6–2 |
Maikel Scheffers and Ronald Vink were the defending champions but Scheffers did not participate.
Tom Egberink and Michaël Jeremiasz defeated Vink and Robin Ammerlaan in the final, 6–4, 6–2 to win the wheelchair men's doubles tennis title at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships.
Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
1 | Robin Ammerlaan Ronald Vink | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
Marc McCarroll Brett Reid | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
1 | Robin Ammerlaan Ronald Vink | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||
Tom Egberink Michaël Jeremiasz | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||
Tom Egberink Michaël Jeremiasz | 2 | 77 | 7 | ||||||||||
2 | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 6 | 65 | 5 | Third place | ||||||||
Marc McCarroll Brett Reid | 1 | 61 | |||||||||||
2 | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 6 | 77 |
Robin Ammerlaan is a professional, former world number one in singles and doubles, wheelchair tennis player from the Netherlands. Ammerlaan is also champion of many grand slam titles since 2000. The right-handed player's favourite surface is carpet, and he is coached by Gert Bolk. His wheelchair is manufactured by Invacare. Ammerlaan currently resides in Elen, Belgium. He ended his professional career in 2012 after the London 2012 Paralympics which was his last tournament.
Shingo Kunieda defeated Michael Jeremiasz 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 to win the Men's Wheelchair Singles competition of the 2007 Australian Open.
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Robin Ammerlaan and Shingo Kunieda were the defending champions, but they did not compete together.
Amerlaan partnered up with Maikel Scheffers and Kunieda partnered up with Stéphane Houdet.
They met in the final. Houdet and Kunieda defeated Ammerlaan and Scheffers 6–2, 6–2 to win the title.
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