- De Groot and Van Koot rout GB’s Shuker and Whiley 6-0, 6-1
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The Netherlands have won every women’s doubles gold medal in wheelchair tennis since it was first introduced to the Paralympics in 1992, and Britain’s Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley could do nothing about that record as Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot powered to a 6-0 6-1 win in Tokyo on Saturday.
The Dutch pair went into the match ranked as the No 1 duo in the world, while Van Koot was defending the title that she won at the Rio Paralympics in 2016 with Jiske Griffioen, who retired in 2017. On Friday, De Groot became the ninth successive Dutch player to win the women’s singles at the Paralympics.
