Jordanne Joyce Whiley
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(born 11 June 1992) is a British retired wheelchair tennis player. Aged 14, she became Britain's youngest ever national women's singles champion in
wheelchair tennis
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. She has
osteogenesis imperfecta
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as does her father,
Keith
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, who was also a Paralympian and won a bronze medal in 1984 in New York. As well as the
2015 US Open in wheelchair singles, Whiley has won 9 Grand Slam doubles titles, and she & Japanese
Yui Kamiji
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. She has won 26 major titles, as well as a Paralympic silver and bronze medal in singles and doubles, respectively, at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She also won a bronze medal in singles at the 2016 Rio ...
are the fourth team in women's wheelchair doubles (as well as the most recent players) to complete the
Calendar Year Grand Slam
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.
Whiley was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE) in the
2015 Queens Birthday Honours list for services to wheelchair tennis.
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Career
Junior
In 2006 at the age of 14 Whiley claimed her first senior main draw titles when she won the singles and doubles at the Cardiff Wheelchair Tennis tournament, also winning the girls title.
At the end of 2006 Whiley had moved up from 112 to 48 in the rankings and had won junior titles in Poland and the Netherlands. Whiley won two awards at the British Wheelchair Tennis Association awards: Most improved female player and players' player of the year.
Whiley created history in 2007 when she defeated Katharine Kruger in Tarbes. She became the first Briton to claim the Cruyff Foundation Wheelchair Juniors Masters title, Whiley also claimed the doubles title with Louise Hunt. Following on from the Masters success Whiley won her second senior title at the North West Challenge. Whiley followed this up by becoming the youngest national British Champion and winning the doubles title as well.
Whiley then successfully defended her Cardiff wheelchair tennis tournament titles.
In 2008 Whiley successfully defended her Masters titles; defeating Emmy Kaiser in the singles before partnering Hunt to back to back doubles titles. The following week Whiley claimed her first international title the Sion Indoor. Whiley then successfully defended both titles at the North West Challenge. She was named in the team for the 2008 Paralympic Games.
Senior
In 2012, she reached the finals of Women's wheelchair doubles at Wimbledon. She competed for
Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
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where she shared a bronze with
Lucy Shuker
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in
women's doubles. Whiley and Shuker won another bronze medal at the
2016 Summer Paralympics
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, where Whiley was eliminated in the women's singles quarterfinals.
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Whiley and her partner
Yui Kamiji
is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. She has won 26 major titles, as well as a Paralympic silver and bronze medal in singles and doubles, respectively, at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She also won a bronze medal in singles at the 2016 Rio ...
of Japan achieved a calendar Grand Slam by winning the wheelchair doubles at the Australian Open (beating the Dutch pair
Marjolein Buis
Marjolein Buis (born 11 January 1988) is a Dutch retired wheelchair tennis player. Buis won 18 singles titles and 52 doubles titles. She won the gold medal in the women's doubles event with Esther Vergeer along with six grand slam doubles and two ...
and
Jiske Griffioen
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), the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open (overcoming Griffioen and fellow Dutchwoman
Aniek van Koot
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Van Koot is a 23-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2013 Australian Open, 2013 US Open and 2019 Wimbledon ...
in all three finals). They finished the year by adding the Masters crown after defeating Louise Hunt and Katharina Kruger in the final. However, despite the absence of van Koot and Griffioen the pair did not go undefeated throughout the tournament as they lost to Marjolein Buis and Michaela Spaanstra during the round robin group stage.
Whiley and Kamiji are four times doubles champions at
Wimbledon
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, and Whiley was 11 weeks pregnant when they won their 4th title, in 2017. Whiley did not participate at the Championships in 2018, after giving birth to her son, earlier that year. She planned a comeback in late 2018. In the 2020 season, she won the Australian Open and US Open doubles titles.
In June 2021 she and
Lucy Shuker
Lucy Shuker (born 28 May 1980) is a British wheelchair tennis player who is currently the highest ranked woman in the sport in Britain. A previous singles & doubles National Champion, Lucy has represented Great Britain at three successive Para ...
were among six tennis players named to represent the UK at the postponed
2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. Shuker and Whiley won the silver medal in the
women's doubles, with Whiley winning bronze in the
women's singles.
Grand Slam performance timelines
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1992 births
Living people
British female tennis players
British wheelchair tennis players
Paralympic wheelchair tennis players of Great Britain
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair tennis
Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
Wheelchair tennis players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
People with osteogenesis imperfecta
Sportspeople from Birmingham, West Midlands
Tennis people from the West Midlands (county)
21st-century British women