Jordanne Whiley made it back-to-back British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships women’s singles titles on the penultimate day of play at Nottingham Tennis Centre after beating Dutchwoman Aniek van Koot 6-3, 6-0. Whiley raced into a 3-0 first set lead as she faced world No.3 van Koot in the British Open final for the second successive year. Despite van Koot coming ... Read More »
Britain’s Wimbledon champions Gordon Reid, Alfie Hewett and Jordanne Whiley are among 25 world top 10 ranked players aiming to boost their Rio 2016 Paralympic aspirations when the 27th British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships takes place at Nottingham Tennis Centre from 26 – 31 July. Organised by the Tennis Foundation, the British Open is also the last Super Series event ... Read More »
Gordon Reid has made history by becoming the first Brit to reach a Grand Slam men’s singles wheelchair tennis final on Thursday at the Australian Open. Elsewhere, Andy Lapthorne finished runner-up in the quad doubles, but retains slender hopes of reaching the quad singles final despite losing his second round-robin match. Meanwhile, Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley were narrowly edged ... Read More »
US Open champion Jordanne Whiley will face Dutchwoman Marjolein Buis when she begins her quest for a second successive wheelchair tennis Grand Slam singles title on Wednesday at the Australian Open in Melbourne. With four Brits on the Tennis Foundation’s Wheelchair Tennis World Class Programme contesting the first Grand Slam of 2016, fellow Brit Lucy Shuker will also play Dutch ... Read More »
Jordanne Whiley made history on Sunday at the US Open after becoming the first British woman to win a wheelchair tennis Grand Slam singles title. Meanwhile Gordon Reid added to the British success as he claimed his second Grand Slam doubles title with French partner Stephane Houdet on a thrilling last day of competition for the Brits British No. 1 ... Read More »
Jordanne Whiley faces American wild card Kaitlyn Verfuerth, Lucy Shuker plays world No.2 Aniek van Koot and Gordon Reid meets world No.1 Shingo Kunieda when the Brits on the Tennis Foundation’s Wheelchair Tennis Performance Programme begin their singles challenges on Thursday at the US Open. Andy Lapthorne will take on current world No.1 and his doubles partner Dylan Alcott of ... Read More »
Jordanne Whiley and Andy Lapthorne reached the women’s singles and quad singles finals after both beating world No.1 ranked players on a fantastic day for the home players at the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships. Whiley reached her first Super Series singles final as she ended the 20-match winning streak of Dutch top seed Jiske Griffioen 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 amid ... Read More »
Jordanne Whiley and Andy Lapthorne booked their semi-finals spots at the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships with hard-fought three set wins at Nottingham Tennis Centre. Whiely came from a set down to beat world no.4 Sabine Ellerbrock 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 and make her third Super Series semi-final of 2015. The world no.6 will play world no.1 Jiske Griffioen in the ... Read More »
Four more British players booked their places in the quarter finals of the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships with wins for Jordanne Whiley, Gordon Reid, Andy Lapthorne and Lucy Shuker on the second day of play at Nottingham Tennis Centre. The match of the day saw Andy Lapthorne facing his London 2012 silver medal-winning quad doubles partner Peter Norfolk, who ... Read More »
Two of the UK’s most talented disabled sportswomen have secured vital sponsorship to help them pursue their international careers. Wheelchair tennis champion Jordanne Whiley and teenage athlete Julie Rogers are both now being backed by leading disability insurance specialist, Fish Insurance. Knowing the difficulties that disabled athletes face in funding their training and competitive activities, the company offered the duo support ... Read More »
Britain’s Jordanne Whiley and her Japanese partner Yui Kamiji have won their fifth consecutive Grand Slam wheelchair doubles title with victory at the Australian Open in Melbourne. The pair saved match point to beat Dutch pair Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot 4-6 6-4 7-5 on court seven. “I’m so proud of myself,” Whiley told BBC Radio 5 live after ... Read More »
Andy Lapthorne will bid to keep his quest for a place in the quad singles final of the Australian Open on track on Thursday after defeat to Australia’s Dylan Alcott in his first round robin match. On a difficult day for the Brits Gordon Reid and Jordanne Whiley both bowed out of the men’s and women’s singles on Wednesday’s first ... Read More »
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