Joshua Thomas Ward-Hibbert (born 25 January 1994) is a British
basketball
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British Basketball League
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(BBL).
Best known for his former occupation as a
tennis
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player. Ward-Hibbert holds the record for the fastest serve by a junior player at Wimbledon after clocking a 133 mph serve at the
2011 Wimbledon Championships
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. Ward-Hibbert, along with
Liam Broady
Liam Tarquin Broady (born 4 January 1994) is a tennis player and current British No. 6. In 2010, he won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon with Tom Farquharson, and the Boys' Doubles at the Australian Open with Joshua Ward-Hibbert, as well as reach ...
, won the 2012 Australian Open Boys' doubles title after defeating Adam Pavlasek and Filip Veger 6–3, 6–2 in 2012.
In 2016, while studying at
Loughborough University
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, Ward-Hibbert switched his attention from tennis to basketball, initially playing for the
Derby Trailblazers
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. He transferred to the British Basketball League (BBL) club
Leicester Riders
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Junior Slam results – Singles:
Australian Open: QF (
2012
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)
French Open: 1R (
2012
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)
Wimbledon: 2R (
2011
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)
US Open: 2R (
2012
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)
Junior Slam results – Doubles:
Australian Open: W (
2012
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)
French Open: QF (
2012
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)
Wimbledon: QF (
2011
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)
US Open: QF (
2012
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)
ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 1 (1–0)
Doubles: 27 (13–14)
Personal
Ward-Hibbert's infant and junior school was Dagfa House School a small independent school in Nottingham. Ward-Hibbert was an accomplished basketball player as a teenager, playing for the England under-16 team. In 2010, he was named the England under-16 boys' player of the year by
England Basketball
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