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Alfie Hewett (born 6 December 1997 in Norwich, Norfolk) is a British professional wheelchair tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in both singles and doubles.
He has won a total of 30 Grand Slam titles: 9 in singles and 21 in doubles, partnering Gordon Reid on every occasion. The pair completed the men's doubles 'set' of all four tournaments in a calendar year in 2021 (becoming the first to do so since Stéphane Houdet first achieved the feat in 2014 with two partners) and won Paralympic gold in men's doubles at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, having been silver medalists in the two previous Games. Hewett is also a two-time Paralympic silver medalist in singles (2016, losing to Reid, and 2024). He won the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in both singles and doubles in 2017, 2021 and 2023.
Hewett was born with a congenital heart defect that required surgery at six months, and suffered from Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease, a condition that inhibits blood flow from the pelvis to the hip joint. His ability to walk was severely impaired and from the age of six he has been a wheelchair user. Though able to walk, Hewett is not fully mobile in the conventional sense and cannot do able-bodied sports.
Tennis career
Hewett attended Acle High School and went on to study Sport and Exercise Science at City College Norwich.
In July 2016 Hewett won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair men's doubles, alongside Gordon Reid, coming back from a set down to win against the French pair Stéphane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer.
He won a silver medal in the men's singles event at Rio 2016 and silver in the doubles event with Reid, who beat him in the singles final.
In May 2017 Hewett won his first Grand Slam in singles at the French Open, beating Gustavo Fernández of Argentina in three sets, despite losing the first to love.
In July 2017, in a repeat of the final a year earlier, Hewett won the 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair men's doubles, alongside Reid, winning in three sets against Houdet and Peifer.
Hewett won the 2017 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Loughborough, UK. He ended 2017 ranked No 2 in the world, then a career-high.
On 29 January 2018 Hewett became the world number 1.
In March 2018 Hewett won his first Super Series singles title at the Cajun Classic in Baton Rouge, USA.
On 2 September 2018 he claimed his second Super Series title at the US Open USTA Wheelchair Championships in St. Louis. Later that month Hewett won the singles title at the US Open as well as the doubles title with Reid.
In September 2019 he successfully defended both his singles and, with Reid, doubles titles at the US Open.
In 2020 Hewett won the French Open singles title in three sets against Joachim Gérard and partnered Reid to win all three available Grand Slam doubles titles at the Australian Open, US Open and French Open, with the Wimbledon Championships cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After winning a silver medal in the men's doubles with Reid at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and losing the bronze medal singles match to Reid, world number 2 Hewett spoke about his Paralympic future being "out of his hands", due to a review into whether his disability is severe enough to qualify him to play in a wheelchair under the 2019 revision of International Tennis Federation rules. Hewett was allowed to continue his tennis career after an alteration to the new ITF rules in November 2021.
Hewett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to tennis.
Hewett kicked off 2024 by winning a fifth Australian Open doubles title in a row with Reid. In May 2024 Hewett was part of the Great Britain team which won the World Team Cup for a second successive year beating Spain 2-0 in the final of the event held in Turkey. It was the team's fourth win in the competition since 2015.
Hewett and Reid won a fifth straight French Open in June with a 6-1 6-4 victory over second-seeded Japanese duo Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in the final.
At the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, Hewett defeated Martín de la Puente in the final, 6–2, 6–3, to complete the singles career Grand Slam. He and Reid also won doubles title, defeating Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in the final, 6–4, 7–6(7–2).
Hewett won the doubles gold medal at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France. He lost in Paralympic wheelchair tennis men's singles final.
Career statistics
= Grand Slam performance timelines
=Wheelchair singles
Wheelchair doubles
Grand Slam tournament finals
= Wheelchair singles: 18 (9 titles, 9 runner-ups) =
= Wheelchair doubles: 27 (21 titles, 6 runner-ups) =
References
External links
Alfie Hewett at the International Tennis Federation
Alfie Hewett at the International Paralympic Committee
Alfie Hewett at ParalympicsGB
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- AS Terbuka 2019 (tenis)
- Australia Terbuka 2023
- Tenis kursi roda pada Paralimpiade Musim Panas 2024 - Tunggal Putra
- Prancis Terbuka 2023
- Tenis kursi roda pada Paralimpiade Musim Panas 2024 - Ganda Pria
- Australia Terbuka 2021
- Australia Terbuka 2022
- AS Terbuka 2022 (tenis)
- Kejuaraan Wimbledon 2023
- AS Terbuka 2021 (tenis)
- Alfie Hewett
- 2024 Wimbledon Championships
- 2024 French Open
- 2024 Australian Open
- Grand Slam (tennis)
- Gordon Reid (tennis)
- 2024 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair men's singles
- 2024 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair men's doubles
- 2024 Australian Open – Wheelchair men's singles
- 2023 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair men's singles
