- Born: 01.01.89
- Plays: Right-handed, men’s division
- Lives: Bingham, Nottinghamshire
- Career Titles (singles): 7
- Career Titles (doubles): 14
- Coach: Matt Lowe
- Highest Ranking: 11 (August 2010)
- Twitter: @Dangerousdavegb
- Website: None
Born with Brittle Bone Disease, David is a former world No.2 junior player. In 2007 he was a member of the GB team that won the junior event at the Invacare World Team Cup. He won his first international men’s singles title in 2006 and reached the second round of the Beijing Paralympics. In 2009 he became the national men’s singles champion for the first time. David is also a two-time men’s doubles national champion (2008 and 2009) and he played in the men’s wheelchair doubles at Wimbledon in 2008 as he made his Grand Slam debut.
David enjoyed a landmark season on the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour in 2010, reaching the quarter-finals of three of the four Super Series tournaments. He also helped GB to fourth place in the men’s event at the World Team Cup in Turkey. David started 2011 by returning to his career best world No.11 ranking after finishing runner-up in the ITF 2 Series Queensland Open where he also won the men’s doubles to take his career best doubles ranking to No. 15. He also swapped the British No. 1 men’s ranking with Gordon Reid in early 2011 and went on to reach his first ITF 1 Series final at the Korea Open and ended the season by reaching two ITF 2 Series doubles final in North America.
David was men’s singles silver medallist and men’s doubles bronze medallist at the Eton Manor International, the Test Event for the London 2012 Paralympics, and went on to beat world top 10 ranked players Robin Ammerlaan of the Netherlands and Nicolas Peifer of France in the lead up to representing Great Britain at London 2012, his second Paralympics. He ended 2012 by reaching the men’s doubles final at the Nottingham Indoors. After surgery in November 2012 to replace rods in his left leg, David recently made a successful return to action in Sheffield, where he was runner-up in the men’s singles to consolidate his current British No. 3 ranking and also collected the men’s doubles trophy. After also finishing runner-up in the men's singles at the Israel Open, David won his first singles title of 2013 and his first since August 2010 at the Open Internacional Ciudad de A Coruña in Spain in May.
He won his latest title in the men's doubles at the Arcotel-Rezidencija 55 Open in Zagreb, Croatia in early July and was runner-up in the men's doubles at the German Open and runner-up in both the men's singles and men's doubles at the Wroclaw Cup in Poland. After also reaching the men's doubles final at the Trofeo della Mole in Italy in August, most recently David posted one of the best men's singles results of his career, beating French world No. 7 Michael Jeremiasz to reach the Nottingham Indoor semi-finals. He completed his international season by qualifying for the year-end Doubles Masters in California.
David made his 2014 seasonal reappearance in mid-May at the Open de Vendee in France, where he reached the men' singles final before being a member of Great Britain's bronze medal-winning men's team at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in the Netherlands and going on to reach the men's singles final and win the men's doubles title at the 6th Open Memorial Santi Silvas. David was runner-up in the men's doubles at the Wroclaw Cup in Poland before reaching successive singles and doubles finals in three tournaments in Canada and the USA in September, starting with the Birmingham Canadian Classic before cliaming back-to-back ITF 2 doubles titles with Marc McCarroll at the PTR Championships and the Tennis Canada International. David went on to partner Marc to a career best finish of sixth at the UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters in November before winning the men's doubles with Alfie Hewett at the National Championships.
David started 2015 by winning his second North West Challenge men's singles title.
Profile up-to-date as of January 201
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