The 21st century
Great Britain · born Norwich, 1997 · Wimbledon singles champion 2024 · seven Wimbledon doubles titles with Gordon Reid
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1
Wimbledon singles title, 2024
7
Wimbledon doubles titles with Gordon Reid
5
Successive Wimbledon singles finals, 2022 to 2026
10
Successive Wimbledon doubles finals to 2026
35
Major titles in singles and doubles
Born in Norwich in 1997, Hewett tried wheelchair basketball before tennis and chose the sport after watching wheelchair tennis at the London 2012 Paralympics. He reached world No. 1 in singles in January 2018 and in doubles in February 2020. By the end of Wimbledon 2026 he had won ten major singles titles, three at the French Open, four at the US Open, two at the Australian Open and one at Wimbledon, and 25 in doubles, all with Gordon Reid; the pair completed the doubles Grand Slam in 2021. He won Paralympic singles silver in 2016 and 2024 and doubles gold with Reid in Paris, and was appointed OBE in 2023. In 2026 he won the British Open doubles at Roehampton and a seventh Wimbledon doubles title with Reid, and lost both grass singles finals to Tokito Oda.
| Major singles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2024) |
|---|---|
| Major singles finals lost | 4: Wimbledon (2022, 2023, 2025, 2026) |
| Major doubles titles | 7: Wimbledon (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2026) |
| Other grass singles titles | 1: British Open (2025) |
| Other grass doubles titles | 2: British Open (2025, 2026) |
| Wimbledon doubles | All seven titles with Gordon Reid; finals lost 2019, 2022 and 2025 |
| Wimbledon singles | Played every edition since the event began in 2016: quarter-final 2016, semi-finals 2017 and 2018, five successive finals from 2022 |
| Finals to remember | 2022: lost to Shingo Kunieda 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-5). 2024: beat MartÃn de la Puente 6-2, 6-3 on No. 1 Court. 2026 doubles: with Reid beat Tokito Oda and Gustavo Fernández 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 |
| British Open, Roehampton | 2025 singles: beat Gustavo Fernández 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. 2026 singles final: lost to Tokito Oda 6-3, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Gordon Reid |
| 2017 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Gordon Reid |
| 2018 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Gordon Reid |
| 2021 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Gordon Reid |
| 2023 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Gordon Reid |
| 2024 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Gordon Reid |
| 2024 | Men's wheelchair singles | |
| 2026 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Gordon Reid |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"Today was a lifelong ambition and I've never seen half my team cry before."
The person behind the player.
London 2012
As a 14-year-old on the Paralympic Inspiration Programme at the London 2012 Games, Hewett watched wheelchair tennis, then went back on his own for the final. What he saw convinced him to pursue the sport. He had tried wheelchair basketball first, and says his aim was never to become a world champion; he valued the social side of playing.
Source: ParalympicsGBWimbledon and Rio 2016
In July 2016, aged 18, he won his first Wimbledon doubles title with Gordon Reid, beating Stéphane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 in the final. Two months later he reached the Paralympic singles final in Rio and lost it to Reid, then took silver with him in the doubles.
Source: WikipediaAmsterdam 2021
Under classification rules the ITF introduced in 2019, Hewett faced being barred from wheelchair events after the Tokyo Paralympics. His appeal delayed the decision, and in November 2021 he learned in Amsterdam that revised criteria cleared him to continue. "I barely got a wink of sleep the night before so I was pretty drained and then there were floods of tears," he said.
Source: ESPNWimbledon 2024 · No. 1 Court
After losing the 2022 and 2023 finals, he beat MartÃn de la Puente 6-2, 6-3 in front of about 10,000 people. "I just felt like something was holding me back over these last few years," he said. Later that day he and Reid beat Oda and Takuya Miki 6-4, 7-6 for their sixth Wimbledon doubles title.
Source: ITFWimbledon 2026 · No. 1 Court
Ten years after their first Wimbledon title, Hewett and Reid lost the first set of the doubles final to Oda and Fernández, then won in an hour and 47 minutes. Hewett said losing a set with everyone wanting them to win could be "soul-destroying". Reid summed up the opposition: "When you've got someone with the size of Tokito's forehand and Gustavo's biceps, it's not easy!"
Source: Sky SportsWimbledon 2026 · Final
A day after the doubles he met Oda in a Wimbledon singles final for the third time since 2023 and lost 6-1, 6-1. He admitted he had not played as he wanted, joked that Oda "didn't read the script", and credited the All England Club with helping to raise the profile of wheelchair tennis.
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