- Born: October 7, 1991
- Plays: Right-handed, quad division
- Lives: Coggeshall, Colchester, Essex
- Career Titles (singles): 1
- Career Titles (doubles): 0
- Coach: Peter Richmond
- Highest Ranking: 27 (August 2013)
- Current rankings and activity (link opens in new window)
Born with cerebral palsy, Richard started playing for fun with his mother, who subsequently contacted the Tennis Foundation in 2008 to enquire if Richard would be eligible to play wheelchair tennis from his powerchair. Richard is currently one a few players competing in the quad division on the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour who play from a powerchair.
Richard started playing in world ranking tournaments in 2011. He started 2012 by winning the quad consolation singles and finishing runner-up in the quad doubles at the North West Challenge, Britain’s first world ranking tournament of the year. He went on to win the quad consolation singles at the ITF 2 Series Open de L’Ile de Re in France, his second overseas tournament. Richard has reached the quad singles quarter-finals at the North West Challenge in Preston and the semi-finals at the North East Tournament in Sunderland, Britain’s first two world ranking tournaments of 2013.
After reaching the quad singles quarter-finals and quad doubles semi-finals at the British Open, Richard reached his first quad singles main draw final on the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour at the German Open at the end of July. He also reached his first ITF 1 Series quad doubles final at the Nottingham Indoor at the end of October, partnering fellow Brit Andy Lapthorne.
Richard's started 2014 by winning the quad consolation singles at the North West Challenge and the USN Bolton Arena Indoor, Britain's first internaitonal tournaments of the year, and improved his career best quad doubles world ranking to No. 19 at the end of February after reaching the quad doubles final in Bolton.
Richard won the first quad main draw singles ttile of his career in July 2014 at the Rezidencija Open in Croatia, when he was undefeated in a five-way round-robin competition. Since then he's finished runner-up alongside fellow Brit Ian Payne in the quad doubles at the German Open and reached the quad singles semi-finals and quarter-finals respectively at the German Open and the Austrian Open.
Biography up-to-date as of December 2014
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