Maikel Scheffers (born 7 September 1982) is a Dutch

wheelchair tennis Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis Adaptive sport, adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designe ...

player. He plays singles and doubles events. Scheffers was born with

spina bifida Spina bifida (SB; ; Latin for 'split spine') is a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the vertebral column, spine and the meninges, membranes around the spinal cord during embryonic development, early development in pregnancy. T ...

. He lives in Dorst. He has won six Grand Slam titles—two in wheelchair singles and four in wheelchair doubles.

Paralympic Games

Scheffers participated in the

2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China, from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...

in Beijing. He won a bronze medal in the wheelchair men singles competition. In the wheelchair men's doubles tournament, he and partner Ronald Vink lost in the bronze medal game to Shingo Kunieda and Satoshi Saida.

Grand Slam performance timelines

Wheelchair singles

Source: Profile at www.australianopen.com and Profile at 2011.usopen.org

Wheelchair doubles

Source: Profile at www.australianopen.com and Profile at 2011.usopen.orgProfile at the US Open site

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