Alfie Hewett

Alfie Hewett
OBE

Hewett at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Residence	Cantley, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Born	(1997-12-06) 6 December 1997 (age 26) Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	2015
Plays	Right-handed
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 1 (29 January 2018)
Current ranking	No. 2 (12 June 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	W (2023)
French Open	W (2017, 2020, 2021)
Wimbledon	F (2022, 2023)
US Open	W (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023)
Other tournaments
Masters	W (2017, 2021, 2023)
Paralympic Games	Silver Medal (2016)
Doubles
Highest ranking	No. 1 (3 February 2020)
Current ranking	No. 1 (12 June 2023)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2020, 2021 , 2022, 2023, 2024)
French Open	W (2020, 2021 , 2022, 2023)
Wimbledon	W (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 , 2023)
US Open	W (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 )
Other doubles tournaments
Masters Doubles	W (2017, 2021, 2023)
Paralympic Games	Silver Medal (2016, 2020)
Last updated on: 30 January 2022.

Alfie Hewett ^[1] OBE (born 6 December 1997) is a British professional wheelchair tennis player. He is the former world No. 1 in singles and current world No. 1 in doubles.

Hewett is a 27-time major champion, having won eight titles in singles and 19 in doubles, the latter all partnering Gordon Reid. The pair completed the Grand Slam in 2021, becoming the first to do so in wheelchair men's doubles since Stéphane Houdet in 2014. Hewett is also a three-time Paralympic silver medalist, and won the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in both singles and doubles in 2017, 2021 and 2023.

Hewett was born with a congenital heart defect that required surgery at six months, and also suffered from Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease, a condition that inhibits blood flow from the pelvis to the hip joint. His ability to walk has been severely impaired and he has been using a wheelchair since being six years old. Though able to walk, Hewett is not fully mobile in the conventional sense and cannot do able-bodied sports. ^[2]

Tennis career

Alfie Hewett at the 2017 US Open

Hewett attended Acle High School ^[3] and went on to study Sport and Exercise Science at City College Norwich. ^[4]

In July 2016 Hewett won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair men's doubles, alongside Gordon Reid, coming back from a set down to win against the French pair Stéphane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer. ^[5]

He won a silver medal in the men's singles event at Rio 2016 and silver in the doubles event with Reid, who beat him in the singles final.

In May 2017 Hewett won his first Grand Slam in singles at the French Open, beating Gustavo Fernández of Argentina in three sets, despite losing the first to love.

In July 2017, in a repeat of the final a year earlier, Hewett won the 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair men's doubles, alongside Reid, winning in three sets against Houdet and Peifer.

Hewett won the 2017 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Loughborough, UK. He ended 2017 ranked No 2 in the world, then a career-high.

On 29 January 2018 Hewett became the world number 1. ^[6]

In March 2018 Hewett won his first Super Series singles title at the Cajun Classic in Baton Rouge, USA.

On 2 September 2018 he claimed his second Super Series title at the US Open USTA Wheelchair Championships in St. Louis. Later that month Hewett won the singles title at the US Open as well as the doubles title with Reid.

In September 2019 he successfully defended both his singles and, with Reid, doubles titles at the US Open. ^[7]

In 2020 Hewett won the French Open singles title in three sets against Joachim Gérard and partnered Reid to win all three available Grand Slam doubles titles at the Australian Open, US Open and French Open, with the Wimbledon Championships cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^{[8] [9]}

After winning a silver medal in the men's doubles with Reid at the 2020 Summer Paralympics ^[10] and losing the bronze medal singles match to Reid, world number 2 ^[10] Hewett spoke about his Paralympic future being "out of his hands", ^[10] due to a review into whether his disability is severe enough to qualify him to play in a wheelchair under the 2019 revision of International Tennis Federation rules. ^[10] Hewett was allowed to continue his tennis career after an alteration to the new ITF rules in November 2021. ^[11]

Hewett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to tennis. ^[12]

Career statistics

Grand Slam performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Wheelchair singles

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	QF	QF	QF	SF	F	F	W	F	1 / 7	9–6	60%
French Open	A	W	QF	SF	W	W	SF	F		3 / 7	14–4	78%
Wimbledon	QF	SF	SF	QF	NH	QF	F	F		0 / 7	6–7	46%
US Open	NH	F	W	W	F	F	W	W		4 / 7	20–3	87%
Win–loss	0–1	6–3	4–3	4–3	6–2	7–3	9–3	13–2		8 / 28	49–20	71%

Wheelchair doubles

Tournament	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	F	F	SF	W	W	W	W	W	5 / 8	11–3	79%
French Open	A	A	F	SF	SF	W	W	W	W		4 / 7	10–3	77%
Wimbledon	SF	W	W	W	F	NH	W	F	W		5 / 8	12–3	80%
US Open	A	NH	W	W	W	W	W	F [upper-alpha 1]	SF		5 / 7	12-1	86%
Win–loss	0–1	2–0	6–2	5–2	3–3	6–0	8–0	6–2	9–1		19 / 30	42–10	81%

1. Hewett received a walkover in the quarterfinals of the 2022 US Open, which does not count as a win.

Grand Slam tournament finals

Wheelchair singles: 17 (8 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	2016	French Open	Clay	Gustavo Fernández	0–6, 7–6(11–9), 6–2
Loss	2017	US Open	Hard	Stéphane Houdet	2–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	2018	US Open	Hard	Shingo Kunieda	6–3, 7–5
Win	2019	US Open (2)	Hard	Stéphane Houdet	7–6(11–9), 7–6(7–5)
Loss	2020	US Open	Hard	Shingo Kunieda	3–6, 6–3, 6–7(3–7)
Win	2020	French Open (2)	Clay	Joachim Gérard	6–4, 4–6, 6–3
Loss	2021	Australian Open	Hard	Joachim Gérard	0–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win	2021	French Open (3)	Clay	Shingo Kunieda	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2021	US Open	Hard	Shingo Kunieda	1–6, 4–6
Loss	2022	Australian Open	Hard	Shingo Kunieda	5–7, 6–3, 2–6
Loss	2022	Wimbledon	Grass	Shingo Kunieda	6–4, 5–7, 6–7(5–10)
Win	2022	US Open (3)	Hard	Shingo Kunieda	7–6(7–2), 6–1
Win	2023	Australian Open	Hard	Tokito Oda	6–3, 6–1
Loss	2023	French Open	Clay	Tokito Oda	1–6, 4–6
Loss	2023	Wimbledon	Grass	Tokito Oda	4–6, 2–6
Win	2023	US Open (4)	Hard	Gordon Reid	6–4, 6–3
Loss	2024	Australian Open	Hard	Tokito Oda	2–6, 4–6

Wheelchair doubles: 25 (19 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2016	Wimbledon	Grass	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	4–6, 6–1, 7–6(8–6)
Loss	2017	Australian Open	Hard	Gustavo Fernández	Joachim Gérard Gordon Reid	3–6, 6–3, [3–10]
Loss	2017	French Open	Clay	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	4–6, 3–6
Win	2017	Wimbledon (2)	Grass	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	6–7(5–7), 7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	2017	US Open	Hard	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	7–5, 6–4
Loss	2018	Australian Open	Hard	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	4–6, 2–6
Win	2018	Wimbledon (3)	Grass	Gordon Reid	Joachim Gérard Stefan Olsson	6–1, 6–4
Win	2018	US Open (2)	Hard	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	5–7, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss	2019	Wimbledon	Grass	Gordon Reid	Joachim Gérard Stefan Olsson	4–6, 2–6
Win	2019	US Open (3)	Hard	Gordon Reid	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	1–6, 6–4, [11–9]
Win	2020	Australian Open	Hard	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Win	2020	US Open (4)	Hard	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	6–4, 6–1
Win	2020	French Open	Clay	Gordon Reid	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	7–6(7–4), 1–6, [10–3]
Win	2021	Australian Open (2)	Hard	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	2021	French Open (2)	Clay	Gordon Reid	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	6-3, 6-0
Win	2021	Wimbledon (4)	Grass	Gordon Reid	Tom Egberink Joachim Gerard	7–5, 6–2
Win	2021	US Open (5)	Hard	Gordon Reid	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	6-2, 6–1
Win	2022	Australian Open (3)	Hard	Gordon Reid	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	6–2, 4–6, [10–7]
Win	2022	French Open (3)	Clay	Gordon Reid	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5)
Loss	2022	Wimbledon	Grass	Gordon Reid	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	3–6, 1–6
Loss	2022	US Open	Hard	Gordon Reid	Martín de la Puente Nicolas Peifer	6–4, 5–7, [6–10]
Win	2023	Australian Open (4)	Hard	Gordon Reid	Maikel Scheffers Ruben Spaargaren	6–1, 6–2
Win	2023	French Open (4)	Clay	Gordon Reid	Martín de la Puente Gustavo Fernández	7–6(11–9), 7–5
Win	2023	Wimbledon (5)	Grass	Gordon Reid	Takuya Miki Tokito Oda	3–6, 6–0, 6–3
Win	2024	Australian Open (5)	Hard	Gordon Reid	Takuya Miki Tokito Oda	6–3, 6–2

References

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External links

• Alfie Hewett at the International Tennis Federation
• Alfie Hewett at the International Paralympic Committee
• Alfie Hewett at the British Paralympic Association