De Groot and Van Koot win Australian Open wheelchair doubles title

Women's Wheelchair Doubles Champions 🏆

🇳🇱 @AniekVanKoot & @DiedetheGreat 🇳🇱#AusOpen · #AO2022 pic.twitter.com/W1NUHpFwl9

— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 26, 2022

Diede de Groot (aka Diede the Great) and Aniek Van Koot won their seventh major title as a team yesterday when they defeated Kgothatso Montjane and Lucy Shuker in the wheelchair doubles final at the Australian Open. The teams were seeded 1 and 2, respectively. This is the second Australian Open title for De Groot and Van Koot, who hold the Grand Slam (2019).

The singles title will be determined today when De Groot and Van Koot, the top seeds, compete. 

The women's doubles semifinal draw features all three top seeds and one unseeded team. Number 1 seeds Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova will play 3rd seeds Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens, and 2nd seeds Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara will compete against Anna Danilina and Beatriz Haddad Maia.

In mixed doubles, the title will feature Australian wild cards Jaimee Fourlis and Jason Kubler, who will compete against 5th seeds Kiki Mladenovic and Ivan Dodig. Mladenovic won the Australian title in 2014 with Daniel Nestor (and Mladenovic and Anybody remains a formidable team).