Guy Sasson

Guy Sasson was born in 1980 in Ramat Gan

Sasson was born in Ramat Gan, where he grew up. His father Nissim worked in real estate and his mother worked in education. He attended Blich High School in Ramat Gan and played tennis as a child.

After serving in the IDF, he earned a business degree in finance from the University of Michigan in 2006. He later earned an MBA focused on real estate from the University of Haifa. He then founded a real estate firm called IsraMich Investments.

In January 2015 he was badly hurt in a snowboarding accident in Val Thorens in the French Alps. The spinal injury left him paralyzed from the knees down. After surgery and long rehabilitation, he walks with leg braces and canes.

In 2018 he began training seriously at the Israel ParaSport Center in Ramat Gan, and in 2019 he won the Israeli championship. He played at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021 and won the French Open quad singles title in 2024 and 2025. He also won a bronze medal in quad singles at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.

In quad doubles he plays with Niels Vink of the Netherlands. The pair won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 2025, and the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2026. Sasson is married to Dr. Aya Mohr-Sasson, and they have four children.