Martin Legner
Martin Legner (born 17 December 1961 in Tyrol) is a professional Austrian wheelchair tennis player who has been ranked number one for wheelchair doubles. Legner has won the Australian Open doubles title four times with Robin Ammerlaan since 2000, and has won eight doubles titles. Six of them are Australian Open Titles, the other two being French Open titles. He has won one French Open and one Australian Open singles title. He has represented his country at every Summer Paralympics since 1992, and has competed in both singles and doubles at all of those Games. His favorite surfaces are clay and hard court. As of 7 April 2007 his highest singles rank was number three. Also of that date, he was ranked number six for singles and doubles.
He competed in wheelchair tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1]
Grand Slam wins
[edit]Singles
[edit]Doubles
[edit]- 2006 Australian Open (w/ Ammerlaan)
- 2005 Australian Open (w/ Ammerlaan)
- 2004 Australian Open (w/ Ammerlaan)
- 2003 French Open (w/ Saida)
- 2003 Australian Open (w/ Ammerlaan)
- 2002 French Open (w/ Saida)
- 2002 Australian Open (w/ Saida)
- 1999 Australian Open (w/ Mistry)
References
[edit]- ^ "Wheelchair Tennis: LEGNER Martin". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
External links
[edit]- Martin Legner at the International Tennis Federation
- Martin Legner at the International Paralympic Committee
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Austrian male tennis players
- Australian Open (tennis) champions
- Austrian disabled sportspeople
- Wheelchair tennis players
- Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Austria
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- 20th-century Austrian sportsmen
- European tennis biography stubs
- Austrian sportspeople stubs