- Born: 10.12.79
- Plays: Right-handed, quad division
- Lives: Crosby, Merseyside
- Career Titles (singles): 12
- Career Titles (doubles): 8
- Coach: Rob Cross
- Highest Ranking: 4 (April 2014)
- Twitter: @JamieBurdekin1
- Website: www.jamieburdekintennis.co.uk
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A former Marine, Jamie took up wheelchair tennis after a car accident in 2000. He was introduced to the sport at a Tennis Foundation Camp for new players in Nottingham in 2003 and was selected to represent Great Britain for the first time at the 2004 World Team Cup in New Zealand. He is a three -time quad singles National Champion and has become a crucial member of Britain’s quad team in the World Team Cup, remaining undefeated when Great Britain won the quad title in 2009 in Nottingham.
Jamie firmly established himself as a world top 10 player after winning his maiden international singles title in Queensland in February 2008. Later that year he capped his Paralympic Games debut by partnering fellow Briton Peter Norfolk to win bronze in the quad doubles in Beijing. In 2009 Jamie won singles titles in Britain and the Czech Republic and chalked up a series of victories over top 10 players, earning a career high world ranking of No. 5. After a wrist operation at the end of 2009, he made his competitive comeback in July 2010 and returned to the world’s top 10 in April 2011, rising to world No. 6 by October 2011 after winning the Polish Open and ending the season by winning the Nottingham Indoors
Jamie started 2012 by winning the Melbourne Open, reached back-to-back ITF 1 Series singles semi-finals in the USA and was a semi-finalist at the Eton Manor International, the Test Event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. En route to representing Great Britain in his second Paralympics at London 2012, Jamie reached his first two Super Series quad singles finals at the BNP Paribas French Open and the British Open, earning his first career victory over American world No. 1 David Wagner in the semi-finals of the British Open.
He also partnered fellow Brit Peter Norfolk to win the quad doubles title at the Japan Open Super Series tournament and helped Great Britain to win the silver medal in the quad event the 2012 BNP Paribas World Team Cup. Jamie was the only player to take a set off eventual gold medallist Noam Gershony of Israel at the London 2012 Paralympic Games but lost out to him in the first round.
Jamie started 2013 by winning Britain's first two world ranking tournaments of the year in Preston and Sunderland and was runner-up in back-to-back ITF 1 Series quad doubles events in the USA. He was also selected to represent Great Britain at the 2013 BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Turkey in May. Jamie was a semi-finalist in both the quad singles and quad doubles at the British Open in July. After the British Open Jamie embarked upon a training block and in his first tournament since July, at December’s British Championships, he won the quad doubles title.
In January he started 2014 by beating world No. 2 and US Open champion Lucas Sithole en route to finishing third at the first Super Series event of the year in Sydney and was then a semi-finalist at the Melbourne Open to earn a return to a world top eight quad singles ranking. After winning successive singles titles at the North West Challenge and USN Bolton Arena Indoor in February Jamie improved his world ranking to No. 5, just one place behind his career best, and went on to beat world No. 1 David Wagner for just the second time to win his first ITF 1 Series singles title in March at the Cajun Classic, where he was also runner-up in the doubles. Jamie reached the semi-finals of the Gauteng Open in South Africa in April to subsequently earn a new career best quad singles ranking at No. 4.
Jamie won all but one of his matches when helping Great Britain to win the quad title at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup at the end of May and in July he won the quad doubles at the British Open, partnering American David Wagner. Jamie completed 2014 by partnering Andy Lapthorne to finish runner-up at the UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters and they then paired up to win the quad doubles at the Nottingham Indoor.
Jamie started 2015 by finishing runner-up in the quad doubles at the Queensland Open in Australia and he completed back-to-back ITF 1 Series tournaments in the USA in March by partnering fellow Brit Andy Lapthorne to win the quad doubles at the Cajun Classic and reach the quad doubles final at the Pensacola Open. Most recently Jamie partnered Wagner to the quad doubles final at the South Africa Open.
Biography up-to-date as of April 2015
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