- Born: 15.02.1992
- Plays: Right-handed, men’s division
- Lives: Leeds
- Career Titles (singles): 0
- Career Titles (doubles): 6
- Coach: Louise Assioun
- Highest Ranking: 79 (September 2014)
- Twitter: @Edholt15
- Current rankings and activity (link opens in new window)
An enthusiastic club player at Louth Tennis Club in Lincolnshire and a county stand football player, Ed was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in September 2009 and subsequently had to have part of his right leg amputated. Ed heard about wheelchair tennis and after visiting the Nottingham Indoor, one of Britain’s premier world ranking events in October 2010. His first competitive tournament was the North West Challenge in Preston, Britain’s first world ranking tournament of the year and during 2011 he played all five NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour events in Britain that he was eligible for. He also played in tournaments in the USA and the Czech Republic, ending 2011 by reaching the men’s second draw singles quarter-finals at the Prague Cup Czech Indoor.
Ed completed his first year in wheelchair tennis with a men’s singles world ranking of No. 207 and a men’s doubles world ranking of No. 273. Currently studying Sports Performance and training at Leeds Metropolitan University, Ed is one of several young players on the Tennis Foundation’s Wheelchair Tennis Performance to be supported by TASS, the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (link opens in new window).
Ed’s highlights of 2012 included reaching the men’s singles semi-finals at June’s International Open Villa de Pinto, where he also won the men’s doubles title, having claimed the first main draw doubles title of his career at the Antalya Open in Turkey in May. He has started 2013 by reaching the men’s consolation singles finals at Britain’s first two world ranking tournaments of the year in Preston and Sunderland. After two months out injured, Ed returned to action in Turkey in May, beating the highest ranked opponent of his career to date when defeating fellow Brit and world No. 76 Paul Stewart to reach the men's singles quarter-finals at the Antalya Open.
Ed reached his first international men’s main draw singles final and won the men’s doubles title, partnering fellow Brit Paul Stewart, at the ITF Futures Wrexham Tournament in October and ended his 2013 season by reaching the singles and doubles second rounds at the Nottingham Indoor. Straight after the Nottingham Indoor at the end of October he improved his career best singles world ranking to No. 128 and his career best doubles world ranking to No. 78.
The highlight of Ed's three international tournaments in Britain in early 2014 was winning his latest career doubles title in Sheffield. He also made his debut inside the world's top 100 after reaching the singles semi-finals in Sheffield. He made hs Great Britain debut in May as a member of Great Britain's bronze medal-wnning men's team at the 2014 BNP Paribas World Team Cup in the Netherlands. Ed reached three singles quarterfinals at ITF 3 Series level at tournaments in Croatia, Germany and Belgium over the summer, reaching the semis of the Ath Open and improving his career best doubles ranknig to No. 54 after the Flanders 25. He attained new career best singles and doubles world rankings of No. 79 and No. 52 in singles and doubles respectively in September before finishing runner-up in the men's singles and winning the men's doubles at the Wrexham ITF Futures in October.
Ed won his sixth international men's doubles title in April 2015 at the ITF Futures Series Sheffield Wheelchair Tennis Tournament.
Biography up-to-date as of April 2015
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