Alfie Hewett

After reaching the final of the Victorian Wheelchair Open in January, Hewett went on to beat World No.1 Shingo Kunieda on route to finishing as runner-up in singles at the Australian Open. He and Gordon Reid became Great Britain’s joint most successful doubles pair as they claimed their tenth Grand Slam title Down Under.

In March he then defended both his singles and doubles titles at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament and retain both singles and doubles titles, too, at Roland Garros, claiming his fifth Grand Slam singles title in June.

In early July, Hewett and Reid joined forces again to win their seventh consecutive Grand Slam doubles title at Wimbledon. They ended July by winning their second British Open doubles title since 2015 in Nottingham and Hewett became the first Brit to win the British Open men’s singles title.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Hewett won the silver medal in the men's doubles with Reid, but lost to the fellow Brit in the bronze medal match.

At the US Open, Hewett and Reid became the first men's wheelchair doubles team to complete the calendar Grand Slam, beating Shingo Kunieda and Gustavo Fernandez to lift the title.

Claimed three singles titles, including his fourth career Grand Slam singles title at Roland Garros, where he became a two-time champion. Finished the season unbeaten in doubles competition with Gordon Reid after the Brits put together a sequence of seven tournament victories and 16 matches together. This included their first titles together at the Australian Open and Roland Garros and their fourth US Open title as they completed the career Grand Slam together.

Won the inaugural Fever-Tree Wheelchair Tennis Championships title at The Queen’s Club as well as the Korea Open men’s singles title and his second straight US Open men’s singles title. 

Despite an early exit at the Australian Open, he ended January 2018 as men’s singles world No.1 for the first time after the previous world No.1 lost more points than Hewett in Australia. Won his first US Open singles title and his second US Open men’s doubles title with Gordon Reid.

Rio 2016 Paralympic men’s singles and doubles silver medallist, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic men's doubles silver medallist, five-time Grand Slam men’s singles champion (Roland Garros 2017, 2020 and 2021, US Open 2018 and 2019) and 13-time Grand Slam men’s doubles champion (Australian Open 2020 and 2021, Roland Garros 2020 and 2021, Wimbledon 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021 and US Open 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020,2021). Crowned Singles Masters champion in 2017 (youngest ever). In 2015, two years after leading Great Britain to victory in the World Team Cup Junior event, he was instrumental in Great Britain’s men’s team winning their first ever World Team Cup title in Turkey.

Born with the congenital heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot, he underwent open heart surgery at six months old. Later diagnosed with Perthes Disease at the age of six, he started playing wheelchair tennis in 2005. Played his first tournament in 2008 and in 2012 won the first of his three singles and three doubles titles at the Junior Masters in Tarbes, France. Also in 2012, at the age of 14, he won his first international senior men’s singles title in Belgium. In 2013 he led Great Britain to victory in the World Team Cup junior event.