Gordon James Reid[1]OBE (born 2 October 1991) is a British professional wheelchair tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles and world No. 1 in doubles.[2] He holds two Paralympic gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal, and is a two-time Grand Slam singles champion, and record holding twenty-five time Grand Slam doubles champion.[3]
His first apperance for Great Britain at the Summer Paralympics was when he was age sixteen at Beijing 2008. He later reached the quarterfinals in the singles in London 2012 as well as the quarterfinals in doubles.[4] He won Paralympic gold in the men's singles event at Rio 2016 and silver in the doubles event with partner Alfie Hewett, whom he beat in the singles final. At Tokyo 2020, Reid won bronze in the singles and silver in the doubles with Hewett. The pair later went on to complete a calendar year Grand Slam, winning all four majors in 2021. At Paris 2024 he won his second gold medal, partnering Hewett again in the men's doubles. He currently holds the record for most doubles slam titles won by a wheelchair player in any division (men's, women's, and quads), with 25.
Reid was born able-bodied, claiming that he enjoyed a wide variety of sports as a kid including football and tennis. However, at the age of 12, he contracted a rare neurological condition called transverse myelitis which left him paralyzed from the waist down.[5]
Early life
Reid was born in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, on 2 October 1991. He comes from a tennis-playing family and started playing tennis at the age of six, alongside his two brothers and sister at Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club, where he was a good junior player, before contracting rare spinal condition, transverse myelitis in 2004.[2] He was paralysed from the waist down for over a decade but then gradually regained limited ability to stand and walk.[6]
He first began playing wheelchair tennis in 2005, when he was introduced to the sport at Scotstoun Leisure Centre in Glasgow. He was acknowledged for his sporting credentials in 2006, when he was among the 10 shortlisted finalists for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.[citation needed]
In 2007, Reid became Britain's youngest men's Singles National Champion and he was also part of Great Britain's winning junior team at the 2007 World Team Cup. He feels his greatest achievement was representing ParalympicsGB at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games when he was 16 years old.[citation needed]
When he was younger, Reid combined his training commitments with his studies and in 2009 he passed Highers in Maths, English and Biology after attending Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute. He is a lifelong supporter of Rangers FC and regularly attends their home matches.[7]
Tennis career
Gordon Reid at the 2017 NEC wheelchair tennis MastersGordon Reid at the 2017 US Open
Reid won his first wheelchair tennis title in April 2005, six weeks after coming out of hospital, when he won the B Division Singles at the Glasgow Wheelchair Tennis Tournament. He became Britain's youngest National champion at the age of 15 in 2007 and the youngest British men's No 1 shortly before his 18th birthday at the end of September 2008.[2]
At the 2006 British Open he won both the Men's Second Draw Singles and Boys' Junior Singles and ended the year among the 10 shortlisted finalists for the 2006 BBC Young Sports Person of the Year.[2]
In 2007 he won the boys' doubles at the Junior Masters in Tarbes, France and shortly afterwards won the men's singles at the 2007 North West Challenge in Preston to collect his first senior international NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour singles title. He was undefeated as a member of the winning GB Junior team in the Junior event at the 2007 Invacare World Team Cup (Davis and Fed Cups of wheelchair tennis). In 2008 and 2009 he won both the boys' singles and boys' doubles at the Junior Masters in Tarbes, France and in January 2009 became world No 1 junior in the boys' singles rankings, a position he maintained throughout his final season as a junior. He helped Great Britain to win men's World Group 2 at the 2008 Invacare World Team Cup, to finish fifth in World Group 1 in 2009 and to finish fourth in Turkey in 2010, which was Britain's best Invacare World Team Cup result in the men's event since 2002.[2]
Reid was named Tennis Scotland Junior Male Player of the Year in 2009 and Tennis Scotland Disabled Player of the Year in 2010. As a doubles player, he qualified for the year-end Doubles Masters for the first time in 2009, where he and his Hungarian partner Laszlo Farkas finished fifth of the eight partnerships. Reid also played in the men's wheelchair doubles at Wimbledon in 2008.
Reid ended 2010 having beaten three world top ranked players on his way to winning three NEC Tour singles titles during the season, as well as winning four doubles titles during the year. He beat Austrian world No 9 Martin Legner to win his last tournament of the season in December, the Prague Cup Czech Indoor.
In January 2016, Reid won his first ever Grand Slam singles wheelchair title at the Australian Open.[8] In July 2016, Reid followed up with his second Grand Slam victory in the inaugural singles wheelchair championships at Wimbledon. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics Reid won the gold medal for the men's wheelchair singles tennis, beating fellow Briton Alfie Hewett in straight sets, 6–2, 6–1. He ended the year as world number one in singles.
After 2016, Reid's grand slam success continued primarily with his accolades in the doubles alongside Hewett. Together, they were the first men's wheelchair tennis pair to win the calendar year grand slam, which they completed in 2021. Their title at the Australian Open in 2022 marked their 9th consecutive victory in a slam, overtaking Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver's record for most consecutive slam titles.[10]
Reid kicked off 2024 by winning a fifth Australian Open doubles title in a row with Hewett.[11] In May 2024 Reid was part of the Great Britain team which won the World Team Cup for a second successive year beating Spain 2-0 in the final of the event held in Turkey. It was the team's fourth win in the competition since 2015.[12] Reid and Hewett won a fifth straight French Open in June with a 6-1 6-4 victory over second-seeded Japanese duo Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in the final.[13] At the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, Reid and Hewett won the doubles title for a sixth time, defeating Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in the final, 6–4, 7–6(7–2).[14] Reid gained his second paralympic gold medal at Paris 2024, winning in the doubles with Alfie Hewett. This marked his achievement of a career golden slam in the doubles, having won all four majors and the Paralympic gold medal.
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Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid defeated the defending champions Gustavo Fernández and Shingo Kunieda in the final, 7–6(7–4), 1–6, [10–3] to win the men's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2020 French Open. With the win, Hewett completed the career Grand Slam.
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid defeated the defending champion Joachim Gérard and his partner Tom Egberink in the final, 7–5, 6–2 to win the gentlemen's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. It was their fourth Wimbledon title as a team. With the win, they became the first men's wheelchair players to complete a non-calendar-year Grand Slam, and it was their third step towards a Grand Slam.
Four-time defending champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid defeated Gustavo Fernández and Shingo Kunieda in the final, 6–2, 6–1 to win the men's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2021 US Open. With the win, they became the first men's doubles wheelchair team to complete the Grand Slam.
Two-time defending champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid defeated Gustavo Fernández and Shingo Kunieda in the final, 6–2, 4–6, [10–7] to win the men's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2022 Australian Open.
Shingo Kunieda defeated Gustavo Fernández in the final, 6–2, 5–7, 7–5 to win the men's singles wheelchair tennis title at the 2022 French Open. It was his eighth French Open singles title and his 27th major singles title overall.
Two-time defending champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid defeated Gustavo Fernández and Shingo Kunieda in the final, 7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5) to win the men's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2022 French Open. It was their tenth consecutive major title.
Martín de la Puente and Nicolas Peifer defeated the five-time defending champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid in the final, 4–6, 7–5, [10–6] to win the men's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2022 US Open. It was de la Puente's maiden major title, and Peifer's eighth in doubles.
Three-time defending champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid defeated Martín de la Puente and Gustavo Fernández in the final, 7–6(11–9), 7–5 to win the men's doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2023 French Open.
Defending champion Alfie Hewett defeated Gordon Reid in the final, 6–4, 6–3 to win the men's singles wheelchair tennis title at the 2023 US Open. It was his fourth US Open singles title and eighth major singles title overall.
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Gold Medal (2016)
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