Africa-Press – South-Africa. Donald Ramphadi brought home a silver medal from Wimbledon.
The Limpopo-born athlete made his first Wimbledon final in quad wheelchair doubles alongside British partner Gregory Slade.
They went down to 6-0, 6-2 to Niels Vink (Netherlands) and Guy Sasson (Israel).
To make the finale, Ramphadi and his partner took down second seeds Ahmet Kaplan (Turkey) and Sam Schroder (Netherlands) 7-6(5), 1-6, 7-5 in the semis.
At the 2025 French Open Men’s Quad Doubles final Ahmet Kaplan and Donald Ramphadi claimed silver.
READ: South Africa’s stars shine at Wimbledon: Ramphadi eyes quad doubles glory, Montjane makes semis
In 2023, Ramphadi rewrote history as he became the first South African since 1981 to win a Roland Garros title.
Ramphadi, who is South Africa’s leading wheelchair tennis quad player won the wheelchair quad singles title at the Belgian Open – ITF 1 series – tennis tournament in Belgium in 2022 – the year he made his Wimbledon debut.
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