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]
_(9704008814).jpg) Reid at the 2013 US Open | |
| Country (sports) |  Great Britain |
|---|---|
| Residence | Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Born | 2 October 1991 Alexandria, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Turned pro | 2012 |
| Plays | Left-handed |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 613-253 (71%) |
| Career titles | 50 |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (19 September 2016) |
| Current ranking | No. 5 (30 November 2024) |
| 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 | 523-171 (75%) |
| Career titles | 106 |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (9 November 2015) |
| Current ranking | No. 2 (30 November 2024) |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) |
| French Open | W (2015, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) |
| Wimbledon | W (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024) |
| US Open | W (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| Masters Doubles | W (2013, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2023) |
| Paralympic Games | Gold Medal (2024) Silver Medal (2016, 2020) |
| Last updated on: 30 November 2024. | |
His first appearance 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
editReid 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
edit
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.
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]
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.
Personal life
editReid was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to wheelchair tennis.[15] After giving him his MBE, Queen Elizabeth II referred to him as a "charming young man".[16] Reid was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to tennis.[17]
Career statistics
editGrand Slam performance timelines
edit| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Wheelchair singles
edit| 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 | SF | 0 / 11 | – | |
| Wimbledon | NH | NH | NH | W | QF | QF | QF | NH | F | QF | SF | 1R | 1 / 8 | – | |
| US Open | SF | QF | QF | NH | SF | QF | QF | QF | SF | 1R | F | NH | 0 / 10 | – | |
| Win–loss | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 / 40 | – | |
Wheelchair doubles
edit| 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 | W | 7 / 12 | – |
| Wimbledon | 4th | 3rd | F | W | W | W | F | NH | W | F | W | W | 6 / 11 | – |
| US Open | SF | F | W | NH | W | W | W | W | W | F[A] | SF | NH | 6 / 10 | – |
| Win–loss | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 24 / 44 | – |
- ^ Reid received a walkover in the quarter-final of the 2022 US Open, which does not count as a win.
Finals
editWheelchair singles: 7 (2 titles, 5 runner-ups)
edit| 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: 36 (25 titles, 11 runner-ups)
edit| 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 |
| Win | 2024 | French Open (7) | Clay | Alfie Hewett |
Takuya Miki Tokito Oda |
6–1, 6–4 |
| Win | 2024 | Wimbledon (6) | Grass | Alfie Hewett |
Takuya Miki Tokito Oda |
6-4, 7–6(7–2) |
References
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- ^ Donald, Carla (20 September 2016). "Gordon Reid makes history with gold medal victory at 2016 Paralympics".
- ^ "London 2012 Paralympics – Ceremonies, Medals, Torch Relay". london2012.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012.
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- ^ "Wheelchair tennis star Gordon Reid regains feeling in legs". scotsman.com. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Gers Fan Reid Makes History". rangers.co.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
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- ^ "Wheelchair Tennis – REID Gordon – Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "Australian Open: Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid win ninth consecutive Grand Slam title". 26 January 2022.
- ^ "Australian Open 2024 results: Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne win titles". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Reid & Hewett help GB defend World Team Cup". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Hewett & Reid win fifth French Open doubles title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Wimbledon 2024: Alfie Hewett & Gordon Reid crowned doubles champions for a sixth time". LTA. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
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External links
edit- Gordon Reid at ParalympicsGB
- 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)