Gordon Reid (tennis)

Gordon Reid
OBE

Reid at the 2013 US Open
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Residence	Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Born	(1991-10-02) 2 October 1991 (age 32) Alexandria, Scotland, United Kingdom
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2012
Plays	Left-handed
Singles
Career record	571-229 (71%)
Highest ranking	No. 1 (19 September 2016)
Current ranking	No. 7 (1 August 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	W (2016)
French Open	F (2016, 2019)
Wimbledon	W (2016)
US Open	F (2023)
Other tournaments
Masters	F (2016, 2017)
Paralympic Games	Gold Medal (2016) Bronze Medal (2020)
Doubles
Career record	480-165 (74%)
Highest ranking	No. 1 (9 November 2015)
Current ranking	No. 2 (1 August 2023)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2017, 2020, 2021 , 2022, 2023, 2024)
French Open	W (2015, 2016, 2020, 2021 , 2022, 2023)
Wimbledon	W (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 , 2023)
US Open	W (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 )
Other doubles tournaments
Masters Doubles	W (2013, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2023)
Paralympic Games	Silver Medal (2016, 2020)
Last updated on: 1 August 2023.

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 is a Paralympic gold, silver, and bronze medalist, two-time Grand Slam singles champion, and twenty-three time Grand Slam doubles champion. ^[3]

He has competed for Great Britain at the Summer Paralympics when tennis made its first appearance at Beijing 2008. He 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. He currently holds the record for most doubles slam titles won by a male wheelchair player, with 23.

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. 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 Masters

Gordon 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 competed in wheelchair tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, ^[9] where he won silver in the doubles with Hewett and bronze in the 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]

Personal life

Reid was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to wheelchair tennis. ^[11] After giving him his MBE, Queen Elizabeth II referred to him as a "charming young man". ^[12] Reid was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to tennis. ^[13]

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	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	QF	QF	W	QF	QF	QF	F	SF	QF	QF	SF	1 / 11	–
French Open	SF	SF	QF	F	QF	QF	F	QF	QF	QF	QF		0 / 11	–
Wimbledon	NH	NH	NH	W	QF	QF	QF	NH	F	QF	SF		1 / 7	–
US Open	SF	QF	QF	NH	SF	QF	QF	QF	SF	1R	F		0 / 10	–
Win–loss	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2 / 39	–

Wheelchair doubles

Tournament	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	F	F	F	W	F	SF	W	W	W	W	W	6 / 12	–
French Open	F	SF	W	W	F	SF	SF	W	W	W	W		6 / 11	–
Wimbledon	4th	3rd	F	W	W	W	F	NH	W	F	W		5 / 10	–
US Open	SF	F	W	NH	W	W	W	W	W	F [upper-alpha 1]	SF		6 / 10	–
Win–loss	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23 / 43	–

1. Reid received a walkover in the quarter-final of the 2022 US Open, which does not count as a win.

Finals

Wheelchair singles: 7 (2 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	2016	Australian Open	Hard	Joachim Gérard	7–6(9–7), 6–4
Loss	2016	French Open	Clay	Gustavo Fernández	6–7(1–7), 1–6
Win	2016	Wimbledon	Grass	Stefan Olsson	6–1, 6–4
Loss	2019	French Open (2)	Clay	Gustavo Fernández	1–6, 3–6
Loss	2020	Australian Open	Hard	Shingo Kunieda	4–6, 4–6
Loss	2021	Wimbledon	Grass	Joachim Gérard	2–6, 6–7(2–7)
Loss	2023	US Open	Hard	Alfie Hewett	4–6, 3–6

Wheelchair doubles: 34 (23 titles, 11 runner-ups)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2013	French Open	Clay	Ronald Vink	Stéphane Houdet Shingo Kunieda	6–3, 4–6, [6–10]
Loss	2014	Australian Open	Hard	Maikel Scheffers	Stéphane Houdet Shingo Kunieda	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2014	US Open	Hard	Maikel Scheffers	Stéphane Houdet Shingo Kunieda	2–6, 6–2, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	2015	Australian Open	Hard	Gustavo Fernández	Stéphane Houdet Shingo Kunieda	2–6, 1–6
Win	2015	French Open	Clay	Shingo Kunieda	Gustavo Fernández Nicolas Peifer	6–1, 7–6(7–1)
Loss	2015	Wimbledon	Grass	Michaël Jeremiasz	Gustavo Fernández Nicolas Peifer	5–7, 7–5, 2–6
Win	2015	US Open	Hard	Stéphane Houdet	Michaël Jeremiasz Nicolas Peifer	6–3, 6–1
Loss	2016	Australian Open	Hard	Shingo Kunieda	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	3–6, 6–3, 5–7
Win	2016	French Open (2)	Clay	Shingo Kunieda	Michaël Jeremiasz Stefan Olsson	6–3, 6–2
Win	2016	Wimbledon	Grass	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	4–6, 6–1, 7–6(8–6)
Win	2017	Australian Open	Hard	Joachim Gérard	Gustavo Fernández Alfie Hewett	6–3, 3–6, [10–3]
Loss	2017	French Open	Clay	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	4–6, 3–6
Win	2017	Wimbledon (2)	Grass	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	6–7(5–7), 7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	2017	US Open (2)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	7–5, 6–4
Loss	2018	Australian Open	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	4–6, 2–6
Win	2018	Wimbledon (3)	Grass	Alfie Hewett	Joachim Gérard Stefan Olsson	6–1, 6–4
Win	2018	US Open (3)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	5–7, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss	2019	Wimbledon	Grass	Alfie Hewett	Joachim Gérard Stefan Olsson	4–6, 2–6
Win	2019	US Open (4)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	1–6, 6–4, [11–9]
Win	2020	Australian Open (2)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Win	2020	US Open (5)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	6–4, 6–1
Win	2020	French Open (3)	Clay	Alfie Hewett	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	7–6(7–4), 1–6, [10–3]
Win	2021	Australian Open (3)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	2021	French Open (4)	Clay	Alfie Hewett	Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer	6-3, 6-0
Win	2021	Wimbledon (4)	Grass	Alfie Hewett	Tom Egberink Joachim Gerard	7–5, 6–2
Win	2021	US Open (6)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	6-2, 6–1
Win	2022	Australian Open (4)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	6–2, 4–6, [10–7]
Win	2022	French Open (5)	Clay	Alfie Hewett	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5)
Loss	2022	Wimbledon	Grass	Alfie Hewett	Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda	3–6, 1–6
Loss	2022	US Open	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Martín de la Puente Nicolas Peifer	6–4, 5–7, [6–10]
Win	2023	Australian Open (5)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Maikel Scheffers Ruben Spaargaren	6–1, 6–2
Win	2023	French Open (6)	Clay	Alfie Hewett	Martín de la Puente Gustavo Fernández	7–6(11–9), 7–5
Win	2023	Wimbledon (5)	Grass	Alfie Hewett	Takuya Miki Tokito Oda	3–6, 6–0, 6–3
Win	2024	Australian Open (6)	Hard	Alfie Hewett	Takuya Miki Tokito Oda	6–3, 6–2

References

1. "King's Birthday Honours: Sarah Hunter and Ian Wright among those included". BBC Sport. 17 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
2. "Tennis Foundation – Tennis in Britain". Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
3. Donald, Carla (20 September 2016). "Gordon Reid makes history with gold medal victory at 2016 Paralympics".
4. "London 2012 Paralympics – Ceremonies, Medals, Torch Relay". london2012.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012.
5. "Wheelchair Tennis champion Gordon Reid already eyeing the 2024 Paralympics". fansided.com. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
6. "Wheelchair tennis star Gordon Reid regains feeling in legs". scotsman.com. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
7. "Gers Fan Reid Makes History". rangers.co.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
8. "Australian Open 2016: Gordon Reid wins wheelchair singles title". BBC Sport. 30 January 2016.
9. "Wheelchair Tennis – REID Gordon – Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games . Retrieved 10 September 2021.
10. "Australian Open: Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid win ninth consecutive Grand Slam title". 26 January 2022.
11. "Team GB stars dominate New Year's Honours List". Team GB. 30 December 2016.
12. "The Queen meets First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon" – via YouTube.
13. "No. 64082". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2023. p. B15.

External links

• Gordon Reid at the British Paralympic Association
• Gordon Reid at the International Paralympic Committee
• Gordon Reid at the International Tennis Federation
• Gordon Reid at the Tennis Foundation at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-09-09)
• London 2012 Paralympic Profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-11-16)
• Gordon Reid London 2012 Paralympic Information at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-09-01)

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Shingo Kunieda	ITF Wheelchair Tennis World Champion 2016	Succeeded by Incumbent