Alfie Hewett, who is only 24 years old, has already been an inspiration to many participating in disability sports.
Alfie Hewett is a wheelchair tennis player from the United Kingdom. He is the current world champion in doubles and a former world champion in singles.
He is a 20-time major champion, having won five singles titles and 15 doubles win, all with Gordon Reid. In 2021, the pair will have completed the Grand Slam, becoming the first in wheelchair men’s doubles since Stéphane Houdet in 2014.
Hewett has three Paralympic silver medals and won the 2017 Wheelchair Tennis Masters in both singles and doubles.
What Is Alfie Hewett Disability?
Alfie Hewett was born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart abnormality, and underwent open-heart surgery at the age of six months. He was diagnosed with Perthes Disease, a rare hip ailment when he was six years old.
His ability to walk has been seriously hampered, and he has used a wheelchair since the age of six. Hewett can walk but is not fully mobile in the usual sense and cannot participate in able-bodied sports.
Alfie began playing wheelchair tennis in 2005 after visiting a Tennis Foundation Camp. By 2008, he was competing in his debut competition, and by 2012, he had won the Junior Masters singles and doubles titles.
In Rio 2016, he won silver in the men’s singles event and silver in the doubles event with teammate Gordon Reid, who beat him in the singles final.
Alfie Hewett Position In Grand Slam Champion Today
Alfie Hewett advanced to his third Wimbledon men’s singles semi-final after overcoming fellow Brit and 2016 champion Gordon Reid 6-2 3-6 6-4 on the first of four days of the wheelchair tennis competition at The Championships on Thursday.
In the first set of their quarter-final, Hewett maintained consistent pressure on Reid’s serve, but as the world No.2’s error count and double faults increased, Reid clawed his way back into a highly interesting match.
However, a third Wimbledon final for 2021 runner-up Reid proved elusive, as despite saving two set points, Hewett advanced to the last four.
The British No.1 will now face Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez for a place in what would be the second seed’s first Wimbledon singles final.
While Alfie will face Fernandez in the singles semi-finals, he and Reid will face Dutchman Tom Egberink and Belgian Joachim Gerard in the men’s doubles semi-finals. Friday’s semi-finalists are familiar foes, as Hewett and Reid defeated the same pairing to win their fourth men’s doubles title in 2021.
Alfie Hewett Health Condition
Alfie Hewett is doing well and shining brightly in the current competition.
After winning a silver medal in men’s doubles with Gordon Reid at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and losing the bronze medal singles game to Reid, world number two Hewett said his Paralympic future was “out of his hands” due to a review of whether his disability is extreme enough to qualify Alfie to play in a wheelchair in the 2019 revision of International Tennis Federation rules.
He was allowed to continue his tennis career after the new ITF rules were changed in November 2021.