Gordon Reid (tennis)
Gordon "Gio" Reid is a British professional wheelchair tennis player from Scotland, ranked world No.4 in singles and world No.1 in doubles. He is a paralympic gold medallist and 2 time singles grand slam champion.
He has competed for Great Britain at the Summer Paralympics when tennis made its first appearance at Beijing 2008. He reached the quarter-finals in the singles in London 2012 as well as reaching the quarter-finals in the doubles. He won Paralympic gold in the men's singles event at Rio 2016 and silver in the doubles event with partner Alfie Hewett, who he beat in the singles final.
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 transverse myelitis in 2004.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.
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.
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 F.C. and regularly attends their home matches.
Tennis career
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.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.
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
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.
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. 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 Wheel chair Singles tennis, beating fellow Briton Alfie Hewitt in straight sets, 6–2, 6–1.
Reid was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to wheelchair tennis.
Career Statistics
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Finals
Singles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)
| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 2016 | Australian Open | Hard |  Joachim Gérard | 7–6, 6–4 |
| Loss | 2016 | French Open | Clay |  Gustavo Fernández | 6–7, 1–6 |
| Win | 2016 | Wimbledon | Grass |  Stefan Olsson | 6–1, 6–4 |
| Loss | 2019 | French Open | Clay | Gustavo Fernández | 1–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 2020 | Australian Open | Hard |  Shingo Kunieda | 4–6, 4–6 |
Doubles: 20 (10 titles, 9 runner-ups)
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Runner-up | 2013 | French Open | Clay |  Ronald Vink |  Stéphane Houdet Shingo Kunieda | 6–3, 4–6, |
| Runner-up | 2014 | Australian Open | Hard | Maikel Scheffers | Stéphane Houdet Shingo Kunieda | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Runner-up | 2014 | US Open | Hard | Maikel Scheffers | Stéphane Houdet Shingo Kunieda | 2–6, 6–2, 6–7 |
| Runner-up | 2015 | Australian Open | Hard | Gustavo Fernández | Stéphane Houdet Shingo Kunieda | 2–6, 1–6 |
| Winner | 2015 | French Open | Clay | Shingo Kunieda | Gustavo Fernández Nicolas Peifer | 6–1, 7–6 |
| Runner-up | 2015 | Wimbledon | Grass | Michaël Jeremiasz | Gustavo Fernández Nicolas Peifer | 5–7, 7–5, 2–6 |
| Winner | 2015 | US Open | Hard | Stéphane Houdet | Michaël Jeremiasz Nicolas Peifer | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Runner-up | 2016 | Australian Open | Hard | Shingo Kunieda | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 3–6, 6–3, 5–7 |
| Winner | 2016 | French Open | Clay | Shingo Kunieda | Michaël Jeremiasz Stefan Olsson | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Winner | 2016 | Wimbledon | Grass |  Alfie Hewett | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 4–6, 6–1, 7–6 |
| Winner | 2017 | Australian Open | Hard | Joachim Gérard | Gustavo Fernández Alfie Hewett | 6–3, 3–6, |
| Runner-up | 2017 | French Open | Clay | Alfie Hewett | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Winner | 2017 | Wimbledon | Grass | Alfie Hewett | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 6–7, 7–5, 7–6 |
| Winner | 2017 | US Open | Hard | Alfie Hewett | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 7–5, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 2018 | Australian Open | Hard | Alfie Hewett | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 2018 | Wimbledon | Grass | Alfie Hewett | Joachim Gérard Stefan Olsson | 6–1, 6–4 |
| Winner | 2018 | US Open | Hard | Alfie Hewett | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 5–7, 6–3, |
| Runner-up | 2019 | Wimbledon | Grass | Alfie Hewett | Joachim Gérard Stefan Olsson | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 2019 | US Open | Hard | Alfie Hewett | Gustavo Fernández Shingo Kunieda | 1–6, 6–4, |
| Winner | 2020 | Australian Open | Hard | Alfie Hewett | Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer | 4–6, 6–4, |