The 21st century
Australia · born China, 2009 · quad player · Eastbourne singles champion at 17 · British Open finalist 2026
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17
Age at his first grass title, Eastbourne 2026
1
Grass singles title, Eastbourne 2026
15
Age at his senior Grand Slam debut
5
Quad world ranking during the 2026 grass season
Born in China on 1 May 2009, Woodman grew up in Victoria and developed his game at the Hume Tennis and Community Centre. He played wheelchair basketball before trying tennis, and began at seven after meeting the Paralympian Heath Davidson. He became world No. 1 in the boys' quad rankings in January 2025 and made his senior Grand Slam debut at the 2025 Australian Open, aged 15, beating Davidson in the first round. He won 11 ITF singles titles over 2024 and 2025, finished 2025 seventh in the quad singles rankings, and in 2026 reached his first Grand Slam final, in the Roland Garros quad doubles with Sam Schröder. On his first grass season in 2026 he won Eastbourne, beat the world No. 1 Niels Vink on the way to the British Open final and made his Wimbledon debut.
| Other grass singles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2026) |
|---|---|
| Eastbourne 2026 | Beat Gregory Slade, the world No. 2 Sam Schröder and the second seed Ahmet Kaplan, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 in the final, in his first grass tournament |
| British Open, Roehampton | 2026 singles final: beat the world No. 1 Niels Vink in the semi-final, lost to Guy Sasson 6-4, 4-6, 0-6 |
| Wimbledon | Debut 2026: lost to Guy Sasson in the first round |
"Coming from no experience on grass to winning the entire tournament meant a lot to me."
The person behind the player.
Melbourne, aged seven
Woodman was playing wheelchair basketball when he picked up a racquet at a disability fair in Federation Square. At a come-and-try day at the National Tennis Centre he hit with Greg Crump and met Heath Davidson, who showed him his medals from the Rio Paralympics. "I was seven when I met Heath," he said, and that was how he started.
Source: ITFAustralian Open 2018
As part of the Kids on Court programme he tossed the coin for a match between Davidson and Andy Lapthorne, then watched Dylan Alcott play and win. That year Alcott started his foundation, and Woodman was its first grant recipient: he "got given a new tennis wheelchair". He says those experiences made him want to train and compete.
Source: ITFAustralian Open 2025
Seven years after tossing the coin at Melbourne Park, Woodman made his senior Grand Slam debut there at 15. His first-round opponent was Heath Davidson, the Paralympian who had shown him his Rio medals when he was seven. Woodman won, in a year he finished seventh in the quad singles rankings.
Source: Tennis AustraliaEastbourne 2026
He arrived at Devonshire Park with no experience of grass. "I had to rely on my own toolkit and had to believe in myself and what I could potentially do," he said. He beat Gregory Slade, Sam Schröder and Ahmet Kaplan for the title, his first on grass and the first grass tournament he had played.
Source: Tennis AustraliaRoehampton 2026
A week after Eastbourne he upset the world No. 1 Niels Vink in the British Open semi-finals and won the first set of the final against Guy Sasson, the third seed. Sasson came back to win 4-6, 6-4, 6-0, denying the 17-year-old back-to-back grass titles, and beat him again a few days later at Wimbledon.
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