Alfie Hewett

Alfie Hewett
Alfie Hewett at Wimbledon (2017)
Nation:	United Kingdom
Birthday:	December 6, 1997
Playing hand:	Right
singles
Career record:	224: 87
Highest ranking:	2 (November 20, 2017)
Current placement:	2
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	199: 69
Highest ranking:	3 (June 5, 2017)
Current placement:	4th
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 )

Alfie Hewett (born December 6, 1997 in Norwich ) is a British wheelchair tennis player from England .

Career

At the age of six, Alfie Hewett was diagnosed with Perthes disease , and from then on he was dependent on a wheelchair. In addition, he was born with a heart defect, the Fallot tetralogy . He started playing tennis at a young age and started in the paraplegic class .

His first biggest success was winning the doubles competition at Wimbledon at the side of Gordon Reid in 2016 . Shortly afterwards he took part in his first Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . With Reid he won the silver medal in the doubles competition . In the singles he also reached the finals and met his doubles partner Reid there. He was clearly defeated by this, with which he won another silver medal. In 2017 he won his first Grand Slam title in singles at the French Open and defended his previous year's title with Gordon Reid at Wimbledon . He also won the US Open with Reid .

In the world rankings, he achieved his best placings with second place in singles on November 20, 2017 and third place in doubles on June 5, 2017.

Web links

• ITF profile Alfie Hewett (English)
• Official Homepage (English)