Australia's Dylan Alcott has made history, winning the US Open to assertion the Golden Slam, with triumph astatine each 4 majors arsenic good arsenic the Paralympics successful the aforesaid year.
Alcott defeated 18-year-old Niels Vink successful the final, 7-5, 6-2.
"I conscionable can't judge I conscionable won the Golden Slam," Alcott said.
"I utilized to hatred myself truthful much, I hated my disability, I didn't privation to beryllium present anymore, and I recovered tennis.
"It changed and saved my life, and present to go the lone antheral ever, successful immoderate signifier of tennis, to triumph the Golden Slam, it's beauteous cool."
The 11th crippled of the opening acceptable proved crucial, with Alcott holding contempt being taken to deuce, and past breaking Vink successful the adjacent crippled to unafraid the acceptable 7-5.
"You're a truly bully tennis player, but you're an adjacent amended person," Alcott told Vink aft the match.
"We person a bully friendship, acknowledgment for making maine the idiosyncratic I americium and pushing maine to beryllium capable to bash this this year.
"Without you I wouldn't propulsion myself truthful hard."
Alcott was the 2nd subordinate to triumph a Golden slam connected the last time of the US Open. Dutch pistillate Diede de Groot besides won each 4 majors arsenic good arsenic a golden medal astatine the Paralympics.
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