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Great Britain · born Doha, Qatar, 1980 · five times Wimbledon doubles finalist · Eastbourne doubles champion 2024 and 2025
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5
Wimbledon doubles finals, 2009 to 2021
2
Eastbourne doubles titles, 2024 and 2025
3
Paralympic medals, 2012 to 2020
98
Career doubles titles by July 2026
Born in Doha in 1980 and raised in Fleet, Hampshire, Shuker grew up in a badminton family and played the game for her county. She took up wheelchair tennis in 2002, less than a year after a motorbike accident at 21. She reached No. 5 in the world in singles and No. 3 in doubles, won the 2016 Masters doubles with Diede de Groot and seven World Team Cup medals for Great Britain. With Jordanne Whiley she took Paralympic doubles bronze in 2012 and 2016, and a silver followed in Tokyo. She received the British Empire Medal in 2023 and carried the flag for ParalympicsGB in Paris in 2024. In 2026, her final season, she reached the Wimbledon doubles semi-finals with Kgothatso Montjane and announced her retirement that July.
| Other grass doubles titles | 1: Eastbourne (2025) |
|---|---|
| Eastbourne doubles | 2024 with Jiske Griffioen, beat Dana Mathewson and Zhu Zhenzhen 6-3, 7-5; 2025 with Diede de Groot, beat Macarena Cabrillana and Cornelia Oosthuizen 6-0, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon doubles finals lost | 5: 2009, 2010, 2012 (with Jordanne Whiley, to Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot 1-6, 2-6), 2018 (with Sabine Ellerbrock), 2021 |
| Wimbledon singles | Quarter-finals 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023 |
| Last Wimbledon | 2026: doubles semi-final with Kgothatso Montjane |
"I haven't won a Grand Slam or a gold medal, but there are still medals that I have achieved."
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2002
Before her accident she loved horse riding and had played badminton for Hampshire. Less than a year afterwards, while she was buying her first wheelchair, the former quad world No. 1 Pete Norfolk introduced her to wheelchair tennis. She started playing in 2002.
Source: WikipediaLondon 2012
At the home Paralympics she and Jordanne Whiley came back from match point down to win the doubles bronze, the first wheelchair tennis medal won by British women. Four years later in Rio the pair won bronze again, and she added a doubles silver in Tokyo.
Source: WikipediaEastbourne 2024
At Devonshire Park she and Jiske Griffioen beat Dana Mathewson and Zhu Zhenzhen 6-3, 7-5. It was her first title on grass, 22 years after she took up the sport. A year later, with Diede de Groot, she defended it 6-0, 6-1.
Source: LTAParis 2024
Selected for her fifth Paralympics, she was chosen to carry the flag for ParalympicsGB at the opening ceremony in Paris, one of the honours of a career that also brought the British Empire Medal for services to sport in 2023.
Source: LTACajun Classic 2025
Winning the doubles at the Cajun Classic with Aniek van Koot in her 23rd year on tour, she said: "It feels great to get the title with Aniek," adding that it was good to be competing "even at my age!" She finished the season with five doubles titles and passed 90 in her career.
Source: LTAWimbledon 2026
Her final Wimbledon ended in the doubles semi-finals with Kgothatso Montjane. Announcing her retirement days later, she called it "my last Wimbledon" and thanked her family for "celebrating my last win on Court 14". Her aim for the rest of the year was 100 doubles titles; she was on 98.
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