Alfie Hewett

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Alfie Hewett
OBE
Alfie Hewett (35580720080).jpg
Hewett at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Residence Cantley, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Born (1997-12-06) 6 December 1997 (age 26)
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro2015
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Highest rankingNo. 1 (29 January 2018)
Current rankingNo. 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 Paralympics.svg Silver Medal (2016)
Doubles
Highest rankingNo. 1 (3 February 2020)
Current rankingNo. 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 Paralympics.svg 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.

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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

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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]

Hewett kicked off 2024 by winning a fifth Australian Open doubles title in a row with Reid. [13] In May 2024 Hewett 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. [14]

Career statistics

Grand Slam performance timelines

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH
(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

Tournament201620172018201920202021202220232024SRW–LWin %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A QF QF QF SF F F W F 1 / 79–660%
French Open A W QF SF W W SF F 3 / 714–478%
Wimbledon QF SF SF QF NH QF F F 0 / 76–746%
US Open NH F W W F F W W 4 / 720–387%
Win–loss0–16–34–34–36–27–39–313–28 / 2849–2071%

Wheelchair doubles

Tournament2015201620172018201920202021202220232024SRW–LWin %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open AA F F SF W W W W W 5 / 811–379%
French Open AA F SF SF W W W W 4 / 710–377%
Wimbledon SF W W W F NH W F W 5 / 812–380%
US Open ANH W W W W W F [upper-alpha 1] SF 5 / 712-186%
Win–loss0–12–06–25–23–36–08–06–29–119 / 3042–1081%
  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)
ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Win 2016 French Open Clay Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández 0–6, 7–6(11–9), 6–2
Loss 2017 US Open Hard Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet 2–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win 2018 US OpenHard Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda 6–3, 7–5
Win 2019 US Open (2)Hard Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet7–6(11–9), 7–6(7–5)
Loss 2020 US OpenHard Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda3–6, 6–3, 6–7(3–7)
Win 2020 French Open (2)Clay Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Joachim Gérard 6–4, 4–6, 6–3
Loss 2021 Australian Open Hard Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Joachim Gérard0–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win 2021 French Open (3)Clay Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda6–3, 6–4
Loss 2021 US OpenHard Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda1–6, 4–6
Loss 2022 Australian Open Hard Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda5–7, 6–3, 2–6
Loss 2022 Wimbledon Grass Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda6–4, 5–7, 6–7(5–10)
Win 2022 US Open (3)Hard Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda7–6(7–2), 6–1
Win 2023 Australian Open Hard Flag of Japan.svg Tokito Oda 6–3, 6–1
Loss 2023 French OpenClay Flag of Japan.svg Tokito Oda1–6, 4–6
Loss 2023 WimbledonGrass Flag of Japan.svg Tokito Oda4–6, 2–6
Win 2023 US Open (4)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid 6–4, 6–3
Loss 2024 Australian Open Hard Flag of Japan.svg Tokito Oda2–6, 4–6
Wheelchair doubles: 25 (19 titles, 6 runner-ups)
ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win 2016 WimbledonGrass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer 		4–6, 6–1, 7–6(8–6)
Loss 2017 Australian OpenHard Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Joachim Gérard
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid		3–6, 6–3, [3–10]
Loss 2017 French OpenClay Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		4–6, 3–6
Win 2017 Wimbledon (2)Grass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		6–7(5–7), 7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win 2017 US OpenHard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		7–5, 6–4
Loss 2018 Australian OpenHard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		4–6, 2–6
Win 2018 Wimbledon (3)Grass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Joachim Gérard
Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Olsson		6–1, 6–4
Win 2018 US Open (2)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		5–7, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss 2019 WimbledonGrass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Joachim Gérard
Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Olsson		4–6, 2–6
Win 2019 US Open (3)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández
Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda		1–6, 6–4, [11–9]
Win 2020 Australian OpenHard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Win 2020 US Open (4)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		6–4, 6–1
Win 2020 French OpenClay Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández
Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda		7–6(7–4), 1–6, [10–3]
Win 2021 Australian Open (2)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win 2021 French Open (2)Clay Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of France.svg Stéphane Houdet
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		6-3, 6-0
Win 2021 Wimbledon (4)Grass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of the Netherlands.svg Tom Egberink
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Joachim Gerard		7–5, 6–2
Win 2021 US Open (5)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández
Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda		6-2, 6–1
Win 2022 Australian Open (3)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández
Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda		6–2, 4–6, [10–7]
Win 2022 French Open (3)Clay Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández
Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda		7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5)
Loss 2022 WimbledonGrass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández
Flag of Japan.svg Shingo Kunieda		3–6, 1–6
Loss 2022 US OpenHard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Spain.svg Martín de la Puente
Flag of France.svg Nicolas Peifer		6–4, 5–7, [6–10]
Win 2023 Australian Open (4)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of the Netherlands.svg Maikel Scheffers
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Ruben Spaargaren		6–1, 6–2
Win 2023 French Open (4)Clay Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Spain.svg Martín de la Puente
Flag of Argentina.svg Gustavo Fernández		7–6(11–9), 7–5
Win 2023 Wimbledon (5)Grass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Japan.svg Takuya Miki
Flag of Japan.svg Tokito Oda 		3–6, 6–0, 6–3
Win 2024 Australian Open (5)Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gordon Reid Flag of Japan.svg Takuya Miki
Flag of Japan.svg Tokito Oda 		6–3, 6–2

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