Gordon Reid (wheelchair tennis player)

Gordon Reid
Gordon Reid at the 2013 US Open
Nation:	United Kingdom
Birthday:	October 2, 1991
1st professional season:	2012
Playing hand:	Left
singles
Career record:	401: 153
Highest ranking:	1 (September 19, 2016)
Current placement:	4th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	332: 131
Highest ranking:	1 (November 9, 2015)
Current placement:	1
Grand Slam record
Paralympic Games
Last update of the infobox: January 22nd, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Gordon Reid , MBE (born October 2, 1991 in Helensburgh ) is a British wheelchair tennis player from Scotland .

Career

Gordon Reid started playing tennis at the age of six . In 2004 he contracted transverse myelitis and from then on was dependent on a wheelchair. In wheelchair tennis, which he has been practicing since 2005, he starts in the paraplegic class . He has been playing full-time since 2012.

He has participated in three Paralympic Games so far . In 2008 he was eliminated in Beijing in both singles and doubles in the first round. In 2012 in London he improved in both competitions, in which he reached the quarter-finals. In the individual he was defeated by Maikel Scheffers in two sets. At the 2016 Games , he won gold in singles. In the final, he defeated Alfie Hewett in two sets, with whom he had recently won the silver medal in the doubles competition.

At the Wheelchair Tennis Masters he already achieved greater successes in doubles. In 2012 he reached the final of the doubles competition for the first time with Ronald Vink , but they lost it in three sets against Shingo Kunieda and Stéphane Houdet . The following year he succeeded in winning the title for the first time at Houdet's side. Gordon Reid also made it to the final in 2014, this time with Michaël Jeremiasz . They were defeated by Joachim Gérard and Houdet in two sentences. In 2015 he won the French Open alongside Shingo Kunieda and the doubles competition at the US Open alongside Stéphane Houdet . He also won the Masters in 2015 alongside Michaël Jeremiasz. In 2016 he won the singles competitions at the Australian Open and Wimbledon , in doubles he won the French Open and Wimbledon. In 2017 he secured the career grand slam by winning the doubles competition at the Australian Open, and at Wimbledon he defended his previous year's title with Alfie Hewett. He also won the US Open with Hewett .

In the world rankings he achieved his best placings with first place in singles on September 19, 2016 and first place in doubles on November 9, 2015.

Web links

• ITF profile Gordon Reid (English)