- Born: 02.10.91
- Plays: Left-handed, men’s division
- Lives: Glasgow, Scotland
- Career Titles (singles): 29
- Career Titles (doubles): 40
- Coach: Karen Ross
- Highest Ranking: 3 ( November 2013)
- Twitter: @GordonReid91
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Gordon started playing wheelchair tennis in 2005 after contracting transverse myelitis shortly before his 13th birthday. He has made progress every season since, becoming Britain’s youngest national champion at the age of 15 in 2007 and the youngest British men’s No.1 shortly before his 18th birthday. His first big breakthrough came at the 2006 British Open when he won both the Men’s Second Draw Singles and Boys’ Junior Singles.
In 2007 he collected his first senior international singles title and in 2008 he made his debut at the Beijing Paralympic Games and at Wimbledon. In January 2009 he became the world No.1 junior. He was undefeated as a member of the winning GB Junior team at the 2007 ITF World Team Cup and has become a regular in the senior GB team competing at the World Team Cup. In the last four seasons Gordon has made significant gains in the world rankings and during a fine 2011 season he secured a number of wins over top ten opposition.
Gordon enjoyed a tremendous 2012, including beating two world top 10 ranked players to reach his first Super Series final at the British Open. Gordon partnered fellow Brit Marc McCarroll to win the men’s doubles gold medal at the Eton Manor International, the Test Event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games and after being selected for his second Paralympics he reached the men’s singles quarter-finals to become the most successful British men’s player at a Paralympic tennis event. After reaching the men’s singles semi-finals at the USTA Championships Super Series event Gordon became only the second Brit to earn a top 10 men’s singles ranking and to qualify for the year-end NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters.
Gordon started 2013 by winning one singles title and two doubles titles in Australia, subsequently earning what was then his career best men’s singles ranking to No. 7 to become the highest ranked British men’s singles player in the history of the sport In February he won the men’s singles and doubles titles at the ITF 2 Series North East Tournament in Sunderland and secured his first career win over world No. 2 Stephane Houdet of France in Rotterdam before defeating world No.1 Shingo Kunieda for the first time to reach his second Super Series final in South Africa.
In June he reached the singles semi-finals and doubles final at Roland Garros, subsequently earning earn his first world top four singles ranking and his first top five doubles ranking. After making his third appearance at Wimbledon Gordon reached the men's singles final and won the men's doubles title at the Swiss Open before reaching the men’s singles semi-finals on his US Open Grand Slam debut in September.
Gordon won the first ITF 1 singles title of his career in October at the Open de la Baie de Somme defeating the world's top three players in the process before also picking up the doubles title in France. He then won his second ITF 1 title at the Nottingham Indoor, becoming men's champion for the second time in three years before also becoming the second Brit to win the men's title at November's Doubles Masters in California. In December Gordon won the British men’s title for the second time since 2007.
He started 2014 by earning his third career win over world No. 1 Kunieda en route to winning his first Super Series singles title in Sydney, where he also won the men’s doubles partnering Dutchman Maikel Scheffers. The duo were unbeaten in their first two doubles events of 2014 before finishing runners-up at the Australian Open, where Gordon made his debut in the first Grand Slam of the year. Gordon won his second successive men's doubles title at the ABN AMRO World Wheelchair Tennis Tournament at the start of February as he and Scheffers won their third doubles title of the year. He then won both the men's singles and doubles titles at the USN Bolton Arena Indoor, where Gordon partnered fellow Brit Alfie Hewett to their second title together. After playing in a wheelchair tennis exhibition at the World Tennis Day Showdown at Earls Court, Gordon won back to-back ITF 1 men's singles titles at the Cajun Classic and the Pensacola Open in the USA in March, also reaching the doubles final in Pensacola.
Gordon was runner-up in the men’s singles and doubles at the South African Open, the third Super Series event of the year, at the beginning of May, before leading Great Britain to the bronze medal in the men’s event at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup at the end of May and then reaching his second straight men's sngles semi at Roland Garros. Gordon went on to reach the men's doubles final at the French Open Super Series and his second men's singles final at the British Open in July. After reaching his first US Open men's doubles final in September, retained his men's singles title at the ITF 1 Series Open de la Baie de Somme. He then partnered Frenchman Michael Jeremiasz to finish runners-up in the men's doubles at the UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters and the Nottingham Indoor, where Gordon also retained his men's singles title.before earning a career best third place finish at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in London. He ends 2014 as Tennis Scotland's Internaional Player of the Year.
Gordon started 2015 by winning two ITF 2 doubles titles partnering fellow Brit Alfie Hewett in thtree weeks, at the Queensland Open and the Melbourne Open, before going on to reach his second Australian Open men's doubles final in siccessive years. In February Gordon won his third successive World Wheelchair Tennis Tournament men's doubles title in Rotterdam and also retained the men's singles title at the USN Bolton Arena Indoor. He recently retained the men's singles and doubles titles at the Pensacola Open and was singles and doubles finalist at the Cajun Classic.
Gordon and Shingo Kunieda teamed up for the first time to win the men's doubles at the Japan Open in May, where the Brit was also runner-up to Kunieda in the men's singles.They extended their unbeaten record as a partnership at Roland Garros as Gordon claimed the first Grand Slam title of his career. In between his Japan Open and Roland Garros doubles titles Gordon led Great Britain to an historic first men's World Group title at the 2015 BNP Paribas World Team Cup.
Biography up-to-date as of July 2015
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