Guy Sasson on Wimbledon victory: ‘Like heaven’

Israeli tennis player Guy Sasson reacts to his win in the quad doubles final at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London.

Top seeds Sasson and Niels Vink beat Gregory Slade and Donald Ramphadi 6-0 6-2.

“It’s like going to heaven,” Sasson tells the Kan public broadcaster. “As part of the rehabilitation process after my injury, I entered the world of wheelchair tennis, and gradually it developed to the point where I can play at a professional level.”

Sasson was injured in a 2015 snowboarding accident that left him in a wheelchair.

When he won yesterday, Sasson gave a speech in which he quoted in Hebrew the Biblical prophecy about the children of Israel rising like a lion, which was used by Israel as the name for the recent military operation — Rising Lion — against Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The verse was found in yesterday’s weekly Torah portion, read in synagogues around the world.

“Am Yisrael Chai,” he concluded, in the speech broadcast on the BBC.

Newly crowned Israeli Wimbledon champion Guy Sasson quoted The Bible live on BBC:

“The people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift themself like as a young lion.”

And he capped it off with an “Am Yisrael Chai.” ????????

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