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Australia · born Rosebud, Victoria, 1987 · Wimbledon quad singles finalist 2023 · Paralympic champion 2016
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Wimbledon quad finals in 2023, singles and doubles
6-4, 2-6, 6-3
Semi-final win over the defending champion, 2023
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Australian Open doubles titles with Dylan Alcott
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World ranking in quad doubles, 2019
Born in Rosebud, Victoria, in 1987, Davidson took up wheelchair tennis at 14 and won bronze at the 2001 Australian Disabled Games. He stepped away from the sport for about ten years, then returned to partner his friend Dylan Alcott in quad doubles. Together they won Paralympic gold in Rio in 2016, four successive Australian Open titles from 2018 to 2021 and Paralympic silver in Tokyo. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2017, won his first international singles title at the Korea Open that year and reached No. 4 in singles and No. 1 in doubles. After Alcott retired in 2022 he reached major doubles finals with Ymanitu Silva, Robert Shaw and Andy Lapthorne, the last at the 2026 Australian Open, and played his third Paralympics in Paris in 2024.
| Major singles finals lost | 1: Wimbledon (2023) |
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| Wimbledon singles | Semi-final 2022. 2023: beat the defending champion Sam Schröder 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in the semi-final, then lost the final to Niels Vink 6-1, 6-2 |
| Wimbledon doubles | 2023 final with Robert Shaw: beat Gregory Slade and David Wagner 7-6 (4), 6-2 from 3-5 down in the first set, then lost to Sam Schröder and Niels Vink 7-6 (5), 6-0 |
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Rio 2016
He began playing at 14, stepped away from the sport for about ten years, then came back to partner Dylan Alcott, with whom he had shared a junior sports award in 2003. In Rio they beat David Wagner and Nick Taylor 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 for quad doubles gold, then won four Australian Open titles in a row from 2018.
Source: WikipediaRoland Garros 2022
After Alcott retired, Davidson found the tour different: "It's quiet man." The pair had been mates for 20 or 21 years, and he said he had "just let Dylan do his thing". At 35 he made his French Open debut, reaching the singles semi-finals and the doubles final with a new partner, Ymanitu Silva.
Source: ABC News, via inklJune 2022
Spending five to six months a year away from home, he weighed how long to keep playing, and had been talked out of retiring after a loss to Niels Vink. Between events he hit twice a week with Australia's junior wheelchair players, who had won the World Team Cup, hoping to encourage more children with disabilities to play.
Source: ABC News, via inklWimbledon 2023 · Semi-final
In doubles that season he and Robert Shaw had lost every meeting with the Dutch pair. "That's seven times we've played this year and we've won zero," Davidson said. In the singles semi-final he then beat one of them, the defending champion Sam Schröder, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, to reach his first major singles final.
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