Jordanne Whiley

  • Born: 11.06.92
  • Plays: Right-handed, women’s division
  • Lives: Ickenham, Middlesex
  • Career Titles (singles):17
  • Career Titles (doubles): 42
  • Coach: Living Tennis
  • Highest Ranking: 5 (April 2014)
  • Twitter: @jordannejoyce92
  • Website: www.jordannewhiley.com (link opens in new window)
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Born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, known as Brittle Bone Disease, Jordanne became Britain’s youngest ever National women’s singles champion in 2007 at the age of 14. She was the world No.1 ranked junior girl throughout 2009 and 2010 and during her junior career was three-time Junior Masters singles and doubles champion.

Jordanne made her Paralympic Games debut in Beijing in 2008 and attained the first top 10 senior ranking of her career with a women’s doubles world ranking of No 10 in May 2009. In 2010 she reached the first ITF Super Series semi-final of her career at the British Open and won her first ITF 2 Series singles title at the Nottingham Indoor, a result that saw her make her world top 10 debut. Jordanne made her Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon in 2011 ending the year by winning the Prague Cup Czech Indoor singles and doubles titles.

Jordanne has won the World Team Cup junior title with Great Britain and was part of the Great Britain women’s team that reached the World Team Cup final in 2009 before ending with the silver medal. Jordanne was a member of Great Britain’s bronze medal-winning women’s World Team Cup team in 2012 iand the silver medal-winning teamss in 2013 and 2014.

She started 2012 by winning back-to-back doubles titles in Australia and went on to win the women’s singles silver medal behind Dutch world No. 1 Esther Vergeer at Eton Manor International, the Test Event for the London 2012 Paralympics, as well as the women’s doubles gold medal. But further London 2012 history beckoned as Jordanne went on to partner Lucy Shuker to win the women’s doubles bronze medal at the Games thereby securing Great Britain’s first women’s wheelchair tennis Paralympic medal.

Jordanne and Lucy also finished runners-up in the women’s doubles at Wimbledon, where they reached their first Grand Slam final together. Jordanne started 2013 by winning both the women’s singles and women’s doubles titles at the North West Challenge in Preston and the North East Tournament in Sunderland. She also claimed the doubles title with Shuker at the first Super Series event to be held in Africa at the South Africa Open in April.

At the end of April Jordanne won the singles and doubles at the Israel Open, 18 years on from visiting the same tournament as a three-year-old when her dad was competing there. She recently won her first ITF 1 singles title at the Atlanta Open, beating world No. 2 Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany in the semi-finals before beating Shuker in the final and partnering Shuker to their fourth ITF 1 Series women's doubles title together. Whiley and Shuker were then part of the GB women's team that won silver at the 2013 World Team Cup in Turkey.  

In June Jordanne won singles and doubles titles at the ITF1 Korea Open and won her first Super Series title partnering Japan's Yui Kamiji in the women's doubles at the Open de France. The pair were doubles runners-up at Wimbledon and Jordanne went on to win her second Super Series doubles title at the USTA Championships in August, where she also beat Dutch world No. 3 Jiske Griffioen for the first time.

She reached a career best singles ranking of No. 7 in late August before going on to win singles and doubles at the PTR Championships in the USA. After winning the women's doubles at the Nottingham Indoor, Jordanne then became the first Brit to win the women's title at the Doubles Masters in California, subsequently earning a career high world doubles ranking of No. 4. Also in California she also became the first Brit to reach the women's semis at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters.

Jordanne became the first British woman to win a Grand Slam wheelchair tennis title in January when she partnered Kamiji to win the women’s doubles at her second Australian Open. She also won her first Grand Slam singles match as she advanced to the semi-finals and subsequently attained career best singles and doubles world rankings at No. 6 and No. 3 respectively.

In her first two tournaments since Australia, Jordanne retained her women's singles title and women's the women's doubles at the North West Challenge before partnering Shuker to win the women's doubles at the USN Bolton Arena Indoor. Most recently she won back-to-back ITF 1 doubles titles at the Cajun Classic and the Pensacola Open in the USA and then, in mid-April, moved up one place in the women's singles world rankings to a career best of No. 5. Jordanne sttarted May by retaining her women's singles and doubles titles at the Altanta Open. She then helped Great Britain to a third siilver medal since 2009 in the women's event at the 2014 BNP Paribas World Tean Cup in the Netherlands. Jordanne began June by winning her second straight Grand Slam doubles title with Japan's Yui Kamiji, at Roland Garros, subsequently moving to a career best world No. 2 women's doubles ranking. 

Jordanne made history at Wimbledon, becoming the first British woman to win a wheelchair tennis title at The Championships, when she also partnered Kamiji to win their third Grand Slam doubles title of 2014. Jordanne and Lucy Shuker were runners-up in the women's doubles at the British Open. Jordanne prepared for the US Open in New York by finishing runner-up in the women's doubles at the USTA Championships and went on to become the first British player to complete a calendar year Grand Slam when she partnered Kamiji to win the US Open women's doubles title to complete their set of all four majors in 2014. Jordnne also teamed up with Kamiji again to retain their title at the 2014 UNIQLO Wheelchiair Doubles Masters and then won the women's doubles with Shuker at the Nottingham Indoor. Named Aegon LTA Player of the Year for 2014, Jordanne finished her season with a career best third place at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in London, where she beat world No. 1 Kamiji twice.

After making her 2015 debut at the Sydney International Open, where Jordanne and Yui Kamiji were runners-up in the women's doublkes, Jordanne then partnered Kamiji to win their second Australian Open and fifth successive Grand Slam doubles title together. She has since won the women's singles and retained the women's doubles title at the USN Bolton Arena Indoor. At two ITF 1 tournaments in the USA in March Jordanne won the women's doubles at the Pensacola Open and was a singles and doubles finalist at the Cajun Classic. Whiley and Kamiji won their second Super Series singles title together at the Japan Open in May before their winning streak of five successive Grand Slam doubles titles came to an end at Roland Garros, where they were runners-up. In between the Japan Open and Roland Garros Jordanne was part of Great Britain's bronze medal-winning team at the 2015 BNP Paribas World Team Cup

Biography up-to-date as of July 2015

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