The 21st century
Great Britain · born 2002 · from Dorking, Surrey · twice Eastbourne quad doubles champion
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Eastbourne quad doubles titles, 2024 and 2025
2025
Wimbledon doubles final and singles semi-final
48
Winners in his first Grand Slam singles win
8
Career-high world singles ranking, June 2026
Slade, who grew up in Dorking, Surrey, played tennis on his feet before trying wheelchair tennis at 14 at Sutton Tennis Academy, and plays in the quad division. He won a junior silver medal at the World Team Cup in 2019, made his Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon in 2023 and won Paralympic silver in the quad doubles with Andy Lapthorne at Paris in 2024. His doubles partnership with Lapthorne has produced titles at Bolton, the Austrian Open and Eastbourne. In June 2026 he overtook Lapthorne as British No. 1 in quad singles, reaching a career-high No. 8 in the world. On grass in 2026 he lost in the first round of the Eastbourne singles to the eventual champion, Jin Woodman, and reached the British Open doubles final at Roehampton with Lapthorne.
| Other grass doubles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2025) |
|---|---|
| Eastbourne doubles | 2024 with Andy Lapthorne, beating Heath Davidson and Ahmet Kaplan 7-6, 6-3; 2025 with Lapthorne, beating Gary Cox and Oliver Cox 6-1, 6-1 |
| Eastbourne singles | Runner-up to Lapthorne in 2023 |
| Wimbledon | 2025: singles semi-final; doubles runner-up with Donald Ramphadi, losing to Niels Vink and Guy Sasson 6-0, 6-2 |
| British Open, Roehampton | 2025: singles semi-final, losing to Sam Schröder 7-6, 6-7, 5-7 after holding a match point. 2026: doubles runner-up with Lapthorne, losing to Sasson and Vink 6-0, 6-1 |
"I feel it proves that I deserve to be at this level."
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Sutton · 2016
He had played tennis on his feet before he and his parents found wheelchair tennis sessions at Sutton Tennis Academy when he was 14. Three years later he won a junior silver medal at the World Team Cup, and by 2024 he was a Paralympic medallist.
Source: ParalympicsGBWimbledon 2025 · First round
He had lost all three previous meetings with Chile's Francisco Cayulef, the world No. 6. This time he won 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 in more than two and a half hours, with 48 winners. "I get very nervous and very tight," he admitted, adding: "It means so much this being my home Slam."
Source: LTAWimbledon 2025 · Doubles final
Partnering South Africa's Donald Ramphadi in only their second tournament together, he beat the second seeds Ahmet Kaplan and Sam Schröder to reach his first Grand Slam final. The top seeds Vink and Sasson won 6-0, 6-2, but Slade said the runner-up trophy was "as much theirs as it is mine", meaning his support team.
Source: LTAJune 2026
At 24 he overtook his doubles partner Andy Lapthorne, British No. 1 in quad singles since September 2013, to take the top spot himself. "It's an honour to become British No.1 in quad singles," he said, crediting his team's work over the previous couple of years. "I hope there are many more to come."
Source: LTARoehampton 2026
In the British Open doubles semi-final he and Lapthorne came back from a set and 4-2 down against Sam Schröder and Jin Woodman. They could not repeat that form in the final, losing 6-0, 6-1 to Guy Sasson and Niels Vink.
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