- Born: 13.02.80
- Plays: Right-handed, quad division
- Lives: Macclesfield, Cheshire
- Career Titles (singles): 9
- Career Titles (doubles): 20
- Coach: Martyn Whait
- Highest Ranking: 6 (March 2014)
- Twitter: @antcotterill
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Antony broke his neck after he fell into a shallow swimming pool in September 2003 and first played wheelchair tennis in 2004, whilst still in rehabilitation. After playing in the National Championships he made his quad singles debut on the international NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour at the 2005 Belgian Open. He gained his first quad singles world ranking in August 2005 and won his first quad singles main draw title on the NEC Tour in Sunderland in March 2007.
He entered the world’s top 20 for the first time in July 2007 and made his world top 10 debut in May 2009. He went on to win a total of four international singles titles in 2010 and clinched three international doubles titles in 2011.
Antony has represented Great Britain four times in the last six years in the World Team Cup, the annual Davis Cup-style wheelchair tennis flagship team event, and was a member of Great Britain’s bronze medal-winning team in the 2011 event in South Africa.
Antony added to his collection of ITF 2 Series singles titles in 2012 to end the year on the verge of the world’s top 10, while he also won a series of doubles title in 2012, many of them partnering fellow Brit Adam Field.
Cotterill and Field started 2013 by retaining their doubles titles at the North West Challenge in Preston and the North East Tournament in Sunderland. In March 2013 Antony reached the quad doubles final at the Pensacola Open and the Cajun Classic, partnering fellow Brit Jamie Burdekin, and returned to the USA lasy May to reach the second ITF 1 Series singles semi-final of his career at the Atlanta Open, a result that led to him climbing to No. 9 in the quad singles world rankings.
After representing Great Britain at the 2013 BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Turkey, Antony went retained his quad singles and doubles titles at the Polish Open in before finishing runner-up in the quad doubles at the Czech Open. He was a finalist in the quad doubles at the British Open Super Series and the Salzburg Open and after reaching the quad singles quarter-finals at July's British Open he made his world top eight debut before reaching a new career high best doubles ranking of No. 5 in the last week of July. After reaching ITF 1 doubles finals at the Salzburg Open and the Sardinia Open, he reached his first ITF 1 quad singles final at October's Nottingham Indoor, where he also partnered Adam Field to their first ITF 1 quad doubles title together. In November Cotterill and Field finished fourth when making their Doubles Masters debuts in California.
Antony was runner-up in the quad singles and doubles at the North West Challenge, Britain's first internartional event of 2014, and after attaining his career best singles ranking in March he finished runner-up in the quad doubles at the Pensacola Open for the second successive year. He partnered fellow Brit Andy Lapthorne to reach their first Super Series quad doubles final together at April's South African Open. and was a member of Great Britain's gold medal-winning quad team alongside Lapthorne and Jamie Burdekin at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in the Netherlands at the end of May.
In June Antony partnered Lapthorne to win their first Super Series title together at the BNP Paribas Open de France and he ended July by also winning the quad doubles at the Belgian Open partnering Australia's Dylan Alcott. A singles finalist at the Sardinia Open in September, Antony partnered American Greg Hasterok to finish third in the quad doubles at the UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters in November, subsequently earlning his career best doubles ranking of No. 4 before ending the year by partnering Alcott to the Nottingham Indoor quad doubles final.
Antony started 2015 by partering Alcott to win the first ITF 2 quad doubles title of the season at the Queensland Open and was also runner-up in the quad doubles at the USN Bolton Arena Indoor. He then partnered American David Wagner to win the quad doubles at the Gauteng Open in South Africa in April before partnering fellow Brit Andy Lapthorne to win their second quad doubles Super Series title together at the South Africa Open.
Biography up-to-date as of April 2015.
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