- Born: 8 July 1995
- Plays: Right-handed, women’s division
- Lives: Worthing, Sussex
- Career Titles (singles): 2
- Career Titles (doubles): 8
- Coach: Andrew Cooke
- Highest Ranking: 25 (Deceember 2013)
- Twitter: @10LaurenJones
- Website: www.laurenjoneswheelchairtennis.com (link opens in new window)
- Current rankings and activity (link opens in new window)
Formerly a talented young football player who had trials for Brighton and Hove Albion shortly before her accident, Lauren first played wheelchair tennis whilst in rehabilitation at the spinal unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital after breaking her back when falling out of a tree in the summer of 2009. Lauren went on a Tennis Foundation Wheelchair Tennis Camp in early 2010 and has made significant progress in the sport since then. Lauren's talent as young sportswoman began to produce some tremendous results in 2011 when she won the junior girls' singles and the women's consolation singles at the National Wheelchair Tennis Championships, but most notably picking up her first senior National title when partnering Jordanne Whiley to win the women's doubles crown.
Lauren ended 2011 by winning her first international senior doubles title at the Cardiff Wheelchair Tennis Tournament and by qualifying to make her debut at the Cruyff Foundation Junior Masters in Tarbes, France at the end of January 2012.
Lauren was a women's finalist in Cardiff in October 2012, where she also retained the women's doubles title with fellow Brit Louise Hunt. Earlier in the season she won three women's doubles titles in Turkey. She also won the junior girls' singles at the Turkish Open and the Antalya Open in May before going on to help Great Britain win the bronze medal in the junior event the 2012 World Team Cup in Korea. Lauren ended 2012 world ranked No. 48 in the women's singles rankings and ranked No. 4 in the junior girls' singles rankings. In January 2013 she became the second Brit to become world No. 1 in the girl's' singles rankings and took her senior women's world ranking inside the world's top 40 in March after finishing runner-up at Sheffield and reaching the semi-finals at the ITF 2 Series North East Tournament in Sunderland, also winning the women's doubles at both tournaments.
Lauren completed back-to-back tournaments in Turkey by winning the first senior women's singles title of her career at the Antalya Open, where she and Turkey's Busra Un also took their doubles record to four titles from five tournaments. She remained in Turkey to help Great Britain win the junior title at the 2013 BNP Paribas World Team Cup alongside Alfie Hewett and Luz Esperanza Merry. After reaching the second round of July's British Open Lauren attained a career high women's singles ranking, which she improve to No. 26 In November after reaching the final of the Wrexham Wheelchair Tennis Tournament, the quarter-finals of the Nottingham Indoor and the semi-finals of the Sion Indoor in Switzerland. She also won the women's doubles in Wrexham, partnering Hunt and reached the women's doubles final, partnering Merry, at the Sion Indoor. She also returned to the girls' singles world No. 1 ranking in early November.
Lauren achieved a career best doubles ranking of No. 19 at the end of February 2014 after reaching the women's doubles final at the North West Challenge and women's singles and doubles semi-finals at the ITF 2 Series USN Bolton Arena Indoor.
After more than a year out with injury, Lauren made a victorious return to competition in April 2015 when she won her second senior women's singles title at the ITF Future Series Sheffeld Wheelchair Tennis Tournament.
Biography up-to-date as of April 2015
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