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Great Britain · born 1990 · quad · Wimbledon quad doubles champion 2019 and 2021 · four Eastbourne titles
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Wimbledon quad doubles titles, 2019 and 2021
4
Eastbourne titles, singles and doubles, 2023 to 2025
No. 1
Quad singles ranking, January 2020
4
Paralympic medals, London 2012 to Paris 2024
Born in Middlesex in 1990 and based in Eastcote, Lapthorne came to wheelchair tennis through a Tennis Foundation camp and earned a men's ranking before moving into the quad division in 2008. In 2011 he and Peter Norfolk won the Australian Open doubles, the first all-British pair to win a wheelchair Grand Slam doubles title, and he reached No. 1 in doubles that January. He won the US Open singles in 2014 and 2019, became quad singles No. 1 in January 2020, and has added major doubles titles in Melbourne, Paris and New York with several partners. At the Paralympic Games he won doubles silver in London in 2012 and Paris in 2024, and singles silver and doubles bronze in Rio. He was appointed MBE in 2025.
| Major singles finals lost | 1: Wimbledon (2019) |
|---|---|
| Major doubles titles | 2: Wimbledon (2019, 2021) |
| Other grass singles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2025) |
| Other grass doubles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2025) |
| Wimbledon doubles | 2019 with Dylan Alcott: beat Koji Sugeno and David Wagner 6-2, 7-6 in the first quad doubles final. 2021 with Wagner: beat Alcott and Sam Schröder 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 |
| Wimbledon singles final | 2019: beat David Wagner 7-5, 6-4, then lost the first quad singles final to Dylan Alcott 6-0, 6-2 |
| Eastbourne singles | 2023: beat Greg Slade 6-2, 6-0. 2024: lost the final to Heath Davidson 3-6, 6-0, 6-2. 2025: beat Ahmet Kaplan 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 |
| Eastbourne doubles | 2024 and 2025 with Greg Slade: beat Heath Davidson and Ahmet Kaplan 7-6, 6-3, then Gary Cox and Oliver Cox 6-1, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Quad doubles | with Dylan Alcott |
| 2021 | Quad doubles | with David Wagner |
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"It's mad how sometimes, things in life come full circle."
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Wimbledon 2019
At the age of ten he visited Wimbledon with his father and shared a lift with Venus and Serena Williams and their father Richard. "Ever since that day, I've always wanted to play here," he said. Eighteen years later he beat David Wagner 7-5, 6-4 in the first quad singles event, with Venus watching.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeWimbledon 2019 · Court 14
With Dylan Alcott he beat Koji Sugeno and David Wagner 6-2, 7-6 in front of a packed home crowd to become the first quad doubles champions at the All England Club. "To be the first-ever doubles team to be up on that board means everything to me," Lapthorne said.
Source: ParalympicsGBWimbledon 2019 · Final
A day after winning the doubles together, Lapthorne met Alcott in the singles final and lost 6-0, 6-2, from 6-0, 5-0 down. He kept his humour. "I'm trying not to do an Andy Murray! Hopefully I can come back next year and put on a better show," he said, adding: "Congratulations to Dylan, thanks for yesterday."
Source: Express & StarWimbledon 2021
Lapthorne and David Wagner led Alcott and Sam Schröder 6-1, 2-0, lost the second set and trailed 3-1 in the third before winning four games in a row. Wagner served it out after an hour and 48 minutes. The title completed Wagner's career Grand Slam in doubles.
Source: Tennis AustraliaLondon 2012
Before the London Paralympics, Channel 4 introduced him in a special called The Quadfather, which the Daily Telegraph said presented him as "the young pretender", talented, aggressive and "gobby in the extreme". He went on to win quad doubles silver with Peter Norfolk at the Games.
Source: WikipediaEastbourne 2025
Lapthorne beat Ahmet Kaplan 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 for the quad singles title and retained the doubles with Greg Slade. "When you turn up for an 11am match you're not expecting a full stadium to come and watch wheelchair tennis," he said. Earlier that month he had been appointed MBE.
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