Dylan Martin Alcott, OAM is an Australian wheelchair tennis player, wheelchair basketball player, radio host and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australia men’s national wheelchair basketball team, known colloquially as the Australian “Rollers”.
Dylan Alcott: Tennis| Medals Paralympics| Back Hump| Wife
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Tennis:
Alcott dug deep to overcome Dutchman Sam Schroder 7-6 (7/2), 6-1 on Saturday to successfully defend his Paralympic tennis title from the 2016 Rio Games.
The singles win was sweet revenge for Alcott after he and Heath Davidson surrendered their Paralympic doubles crown to Schroder and Niels Vink.
The 30-year-old will depart Tokyo for the US Open, where he will try to make it a perfect five from five after also winning the Australian Open, French Open.
Medals Paralympics:
Alcott made his Paralympic debut in 2008, winning gold in wheelchair basketball. Four years later he won silver at London 2012.
Since his switch to wheelchair tennis he has been an absolute revelation.
In 2015 he won both the Australian and US Open, defeating the USA’s David Wagner each time. At Rio 2016 he won singles and doubles golds.
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
|---|---|
| Australian Open | W (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) |
| French Open | W (2019, 2020, 2021) |
| Wimbledon | W (2019, 2021) |
| US Open | W (2015, 2018) |
| Doubles | |
|---|---|
| Career record | 105–43 (70.9%) |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (9 September 2019) |
| Current ranking | No. 3 (30 August 2021) |
Back Hump:
He was born with a tumour wrapped around his spinal cord which was operated on during the first few weeks of his life. The tumour was successfully cut out; however, it left Alcott a paraplegic, requiring him to use a wheelchair.
“From day one he was a fighter. You could tell he had that determination to make it, even as a tiny baby,” his father Martin Alcott told 7.30.
He well remembers the day his second son Dylan was born.
“He had a lump the size of my fist on his back and I remember the obstetrician saying, ‘Oh, look, that should be OK, it might just be a lump of fat or something like that’,” he said.
Wife:
Australian tennis champion Dylan Alcott’s girlfriend Chantelle Otten has shared an amusing anecdote about one of the couple’s more intimate moments on Instagram, much to the delight of the pair’s fans.
Otten, a sexologist, has never been shy about sharing the couple’s experiences in the bedroom and her story about the first time the pair spooned in bed was no different.
