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“My will to win, my will to be the best I could be is the thing that set me apart from the others.” - Esther Vergeer

A LIVING LEGEND

Seldom do you find a sport that is globally dominated by just one person. For ten years, Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands was unbeatable; she won everything there was to win. With her fierceness and vulnerability, she became a role model on the court and off. Vergeer involves others in her success and her crusade for the integration of disability sport. It makes her a living legend.

When she was eight years old, Vergeer had three internal hemorrhages caused by a blood vessel defect that required multiple surgeries. After the third operation, she woke up without sensation in her lower legs, ending up in a wheelchair. Throughout her rehabilitation, sports constituted the cornerstones for the acceptance of her disability. Moreover, wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball opened the door to a life filled with new expectations and opportunities.

A DOMINATING CAREER

Vergeer chose tennis and turned her dreams into action. Her imposing career

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Esther Vergeer launches biography at US Open

“Esther’s career is one of the most remarkable and outstanding careers in the history of sport. Esther inspires not just people with a disability, but also people without."

The Netherlands’s four-time wheelchair tennis Paralympic champion Esther Vergeer has launched her biography ’Fierce & Vulnerable’ during the USTA Membership Appreciation Day, at the US Open in New York.

For 10 years Vergeer was unbeatable in wheelchair tennis. She went on a 470 match winning streak from January 2003 until her retirement and finished her career with 42 Grand Slam titles, 22 year-end Championships and seven Paralympic titles, made up of four singles and three doubles titles.

Vergeer said: “It’s wonderful, I’m truly honoured that it finally occurred. At such an amazing platform as the US Open. This is the worldwide kick-off I hoped for, the kick-off for my mission to ensure that worldwide, every disabled child will have a chance. A chance to develop through sport.”

In ‘Esther Vergeer - Fierce & Vulnerable’, Vergeer candidly shares her

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Esther Vergeer

Esther Mary Vergeer (born 18 July 1981, Woerden) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player. Vergeer has not lost a match in singles since February 2003. She has won 39 Grand Slam titles, five Paralympic Gold Medals and 21 Masters titles. Vergeer has been the world number one since 1999. Vergeer is also a former wheelchair basketball player. She was part of the team which won the European Championships in 1997.

Early life

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In March 1988 after a swimming lesson Vergeer became dizzy and passed out. Vergeer was just six years old at the time. Doctors found out that Vergeer was bleeding in her head. The bleeding had caused Vergeer to pass out. Vergeer had the blood removed. Six weeks later she went home. Yet the next year in June Vergeer had more headaches. She also had pressure behind the eyes and pain in her neck. The doctors could not find what was wrong. They sent her home. In October, doctors found Vergeer to be bleeding in her head again. They drained the blood. The doctors also found that Vergeer had an Vascular myelopathy. This abnorm