Alfie Hewett

Alfie Hewett

Country (sports)  Great Britain
Residence Cantley, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Born (1997-12-06) 6 December 1997
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro 2015
Plays Right-handed
Singles
Highest ranking No. 4 (17 July 2017)
Current ranking No. 4 (17 July 2017)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open QF (2017)
French Open W (2017)
Wimbledon SF (2017)
Other tournaments
Paralympic Games Silver Medal (2016)
Doubles
Highest ranking No. 3 (5 June 2017)
Current ranking No. 4 (10 July 2017)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open F (2017)
French Open F (2017)
Wimbledon W (2016, 2017)
Other doubles tournaments
Paralympic Games Silver Medal (2016)
Last updated on: 10 July 2017.

Alfie Hewett, born on 6 December 1997, is a British wheelchair tennis player, from Cantley in Norfolk.

Tennis career

In July 2016 Hewett won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Men's Doubles, alongside Gordon Reid, winning 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(8-6) against the French pair Stéphane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer.[1]

He won a silver medal in the men's singles event at Rio 2016 and silver in the doubles event with partner Gordon 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 0-6, 7-6(11-9), 6-2.

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 6-7(5-7), 7-5, 7-6(7-3) against Houdet and Peifer.

References

|}

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.