Most consecutive Grand Slam wheelchair singles titles (male)

Retired tennis great Shingo Kunieda (Japan) won 12 Grand Slam wheelchair singles titles in a row, from the 2007 to the 2011 Australian Opens. The sequence does not include any tournaments at Wimbledon (which staged its first wheelchair events in 2016), and there was no wheelchair tournament at the US Open in 2008.

Kunieda won an unprecedented 28 wheelchair singles title during a Grand Slam career that ran from 2006 to 2022. He was a beaten finalist on seven other occasions, including his swansong at the 2022 US Open. His defeat to Alfie Hewett in New York denied a perfect send-off for the man widely regarded as the best male wheelchair tennis player of all time, but it also stopped him from completing the first-ever calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s wheelchair tennis, having won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon earlier in 2022.

Kunieda’s extraordinary 2007–11 winning streak was unprecedented in wheelchair tennis at the majors until Dutch ace Diede de Groot equalled it by winning her 12th consecutive Grand Slam women’s wheelchair singles title at the 2023 US Open. At the 2024 Australian Open, De Groot claimed the all-comers’ record outright with her 13th successive triumph.