Aegon Player of the Month: Jordanne Whiley

Jordanne Whiley has won the Aegon Player of the Month award for July after making history at Wimbledon.

Whiley became the first British woman to lift a wheelchair tennis trophy at Wimbledon as she clinched the doubles title with Japanese partner Yui Kamiji.

The pair, who had already won the Australian and French Open titles this year, got the better of defending champions from the Netherlands Aniek van Koot and Jiske Griffioen 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 in a hugely enthralling encounter at The Championships to take the title out of Dutch hands for the first time in its six-year history.

Whiley followed up her Wimbledon success by pairing up with fellow Paralympic bronze medallist Lucy Shuker to reach the final of the doubles event at the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships, a Super Series event held in Nottingham just one level below Grand Slam. She also reached the quarter-finals in the singles there to cap off a hugely successful month. 

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