South Africa’s stars shine at Wimbledon: Ramphadi eyes quad doubles glory, Montjane makes semis
At the 2025 French Open Men’s Quad Doubles final Ahmet Kaplan and Donald Ramphadi claimed silver.
South Africa’s Donald Ramphadi reaches his first Wimbledon final in quad wheelchair doubles alongside British partner Gregory Slade. Picture: Daniel Kopatsch / ITF.
JOHANNESBURG - Donald Ramphadi reached his first Wimbledon final in quad wheelchair doubles alongside British partner Gregory Slade.
The pair defeated second seeds Ahmet Kaplan (Turkey) and Sam Schroder (Netherlands) 7-6(5), 1-6, 7-5.
They now advance to the final, where they will face top seeds Guy Sasson (Israel) and Niels Vink (Netherlands).
At the 2025 French Open Men’s Quad Doubles final Ahmet Kaplan and Donald Ramphadi claimed silver.
In 2023, Ramphadi rewrote history as he became the first South African since 1981 to win a Roland Garros title.
Ramphadi, who is South Africa's leading wheelchair tennis quad player won the wheelchair quad singles title at the Belgian Open - ITF 1 series - tennis tournament in Belgium in 2022 - the year he made his Wimbledon debut.
South Africa’s wheelchair tennis star and reigning Wimbledon doubles champion, Kgothatso Montjane competing at Wimbledon on Tuesday, 8 July 2025. Picture: ITF Communications.
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And in the women’s singles Kgothatso Montjane continued her winning streak at Wimbledon, recovering from a set down to defeat France’s Ksenia Chasteau 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 and secure her spot in the singles semi-finals.
Montjane will now face Chinese fourth seed Ziying Wang for a place in the final.
In the doubles, Montjane and her Japanese partner Yui Kamiji suffered a first-round defeat, falling 6-4, 7-6(4) to Chinese second seeds Xiaohui Li and Ziying Wang.
Last month, Montjane, alongside her Japanese partner Yui Kamiji, won the French Open title on the clay of Roland Garros.
Montjane was the first African wheelchair tennis player to compete at Wimbledon when she was handed a wild card for the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament in London in 2018.
In 2012, she made Wimbledon history by being the first black South African woman to reach the final at Wimbledon while reaching the doubles final as well.