Peter Norfolk has returned to the world No. 1 quad singles ranking this week following his victory in Saturday's singles final at the 22nd British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Nottingham.
After arriving at the Super Series event as world No. 2, Norfolk secured a 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 win over American David Wagner to clinch his fifth British Open title since 2003 and move him 25 points ahead of Wagner in the new world rankings published this week by the International Tennis Federation.
"It's very satisfying to have won my fifth British Open and to have now gone back to number one as a result of my performance in Nottingham," said Norfolk, who missed last year's event in Nottingham while he was on paternity leave.
"David went above me for six weeks after I missed last year's British Open ahead of the birth of our daughter and I ended 2010 world ranked No. 2 after a return to No. 1 last September. So it's nice to be back in the top spot for the first time this year and I look forward to more exciting and close competition for the remainder of the season," added the two-time Paralympic champion.
While Norfolk has regained the world No. 1 spot in this week's quad singles world rankings, Andrew Lapthorne, another of the Tennis Foundation's Wheelchair Tennis Performance Programme players, has also reached a career high quad singles ranking. Lapthorne, who reached his first British Open singles semi-final in Nottingham before losing out to Wagner, has moved up one place to No. 4 this week.
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