Get Inspired: Gordon Reid claims wheelchair tennis glory

Britain's number one wheelchair tennis player Gordon Reid won his first Grand Slam singles title by beating Joachim Gerard 7-6 (9-7) 6-4 in the wheelchair final at the Australian Open.

He has told Get Inspired how he started playing tennis "on his feet running around" as a six-year old in Helensburgh.

The 24-year-old Scot contracted Transverse Myelitis when he 13. He spent six months in hospital and lost use of his lower limbs. He discovered wheelchair tennis shortly after this in 2005.

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