The 21st century
Great Britain · born Alexandria, Scotland, 1991 · left-handed · first Wimbledon wheelchair singles champion, 2016
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First Wimbledon wheelchair singles title, 2016
7
Wimbledon doubles titles with Alfie Hewett
10
Successive Wimbledon doubles finals with Hewett to 2026
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Paralympic gold medals, Rio 2016 and Paris 2024
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Titles with Hewett, reached at Eastbourne 2024
Born in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, in 1991, Reid learned the game at Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club and took up wheelchair tennis at Scotstoun in Glasgow in 2005, after an illness at the age of 12 left him using a wheelchair. At 16 he played the Beijing Paralympics. In 2016 he won the Australian Open and the first Wimbledon wheelchair singles, took Paralympic singles gold in Rio by beating Alfie Hewett 6-2, 6-1, and finished the year as world No. 1. With Hewett he won all four major doubles titles in 2021, the first men's wheelchair pair to do so in a calendar year, and Paralympic doubles gold in Paris in 2024. He was appointed MBE in 2017 and OBE in 2023. In 2026 he won the Eastbourne singles, the British Open doubles at Roehampton and a seventh Wimbledon doubles title.
| Major singles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2016) |
|---|---|
| Major singles finals lost | 1: Wimbledon (2021) |
| Major doubles titles | 7: Wimbledon (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2026) |
| Other grass singles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2026) |
| Other grass doubles titles | 2: British Open (2025, 2026) |
| Wimbledon doubles | All seven titles with Alfie Hewett. Finals lost 2015 with Michaël Jérémiasz, and 2019, 2022 and 2025 with Hewett |
| Wimbledon singles | Champion 2016; runner-up 2021; semi-final 2023; quarter-finals 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2025 |
| Finals to remember | 2016 singles: beat Stefan Olsson 6-1, 6-4 in the first Wimbledon wheelchair singles final. 2026 doubles: with Hewett beat Gustavo Fernández and Tokito Oda 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 |
| Eastbourne | 2024 doubles with Hewett: beat Ben Bartram and Dahnon Ward 6-0, 6-0, the pair's 50th title together. 2026 singles: beat Bartram 6-0, 6-3 in the final |
| British Open, Roehampton | 2026 doubles with Hewett: beat MartÃn de la Puente and Ruben Spaargaren 6-4, 4-6, 11-9, recovering from 2-7 down in the match tiebreak |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Alfie Hewett |
| 2016 | Men's wheelchair singles | |
| 2017 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Alfie Hewett |
| 2018 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Alfie Hewett |
| 2021 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Alfie Hewett |
| 2023 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Alfie Hewett |
| 2024 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Alfie Hewett |
| 2026 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Alfie Hewett |
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
"They all kept me going and what I would have done without them, I don't know."
The person behind the player.
Hermitage Academy, 2004
When Reid spent six months in hospital at the age of 12, schoolfriends travelled 45 minutes by train after school to visit, bringing board games, daft stories and his homework. Back at Hermitage Academy they carried his bag and pushed his chair between classes, and there was a scramble to be his helper. The same friends now shout "Reido! Reido!" at his matches.
Source: The ScotsmanScotstoun, Glasgow, 2005
He had wanted to be a footballer and hoped Rangers would spot him. Coaches turned him away from wheelchair basketball as too dangerous, so his parents suggested wheelchair tennis, a sport he had never heard of. At Scotstoun he found the chair hard to move at first, but hitting balls again, he said, was brilliant.
Source: The ScotsmanWimbledon 2016 · Court 17
In the first Wimbledon wheelchair singles final he served for the title against Stefan Olsson and double faulted on his first championship point. He took the second to win 6-1, 6-4. "Still feels like a bit of a dream," he said, adding that being the first singles champion was something he would never forget.
Source: TennisheadGlasgow 2016
In the year he rose to world No. 1, he took part in a light-hearted contest with his namesake, the Glasgow Warriors rugby player Gordon Reid. That December, after the Wheelchair Masters final in Glasgow, he kept his ambitions plain: "I just want to keep enjoying playing tennis, enjoying the travelling and try to improve."
Source: STV NewsBuckingham Palace, 2017 and 2023
Appointed MBE in the 2017 New Year Honours, he was described by the Queen at the investiture as a "charming young man". For his OBE in 2023 the lifelong Rangers supporter, who still goes to home games at Ibrox, wanted to attend alongside the club's former captain John Greig.
Source: WikipediaEastbourne 2026
A thunderstorm left the Devonshire Park grass soft before the final, and Reid called the conditions crazy tough. He beat his compatriot Ben Bartram 6-0, 6-3 for his first singles title of the year, becoming the second British man to win the Eastbourne wheelchair singles. In July he and Hewett won Wimbledon again.
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