Esther Vergeer (born Jul 18 1981, Woerden) is a Dutch former wheelchair basketball and current wheelchair tennis player. She is four-fold Paralympics tennis champion and has been the world's top ranked player since 1999. Unbeaten since January 2003, she may be the most dominant player in any professional sports. Vergeer became paraplegic when she was 8 years old due to an otherwise successful, very risky surgery concerning hemorrhaging blood vessels around her spinal cord. Wikipedia
No professional athlete perhaps ever has dominated his or her sport as completely as Esther Vergeer has. www.sportscolumn.com/story/2007/6/5/211840/8543
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The website of the International Tennis Federation, the world governing body of tennis - information on all aspects of tennis including players, records, rules and events such as Davis Cup and Fed Cup. www.itftennis.com/wheelchair/
Esther Vergeer is one of the greatest wheelchair tennis players of all time. She has been in a wheelchair since she was nine after an operation to relieve a brain haemorrhage left her legs unable to move. She was the winner of the 2002 Laureus Disabilit www.laureus.com/members/450
