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Gordon "Gio" Reid (born 2 October 1991) is a Scottish professional wheelchair tennis player, ranked World No.6 and is the British No. 1 in singles and ranked World No.4. and is British No.1 in doubles.〔http://www.tennisfoundation.org.uk/disabilitytennis/Wheelchair-Tennis/Wheelchair-Performance/Gordon-Reid/〕 He has competed for Great Britain at the Summer Paralympics when tennis made its first appearance at Beijing 2008. He reached the quarter-finals in the singles in London 2012 as well as reaching the quarter-finals in the doubles.〔http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/athlete/reid-gordon-5505294/〕 ==Early life== He was born in Alexandria on 2 October 1991. Gordon comes from a talented tennis family and started playing tennis at the age of six, playing alongside his two brothers and sister and Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club, where he was a good junior player, before contracting Transverse Myelitis in 2004.〔 He first began playing Wheelchair Tennis in 2005, when he was introduced to the sport at Scotstoun Leisure Centre in Glasgow. He was acknowledged for his sporting credentials in 2006, when he was among the 10 shortlisted finalists for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. In 2007, Gordon became Britain’s youngest men's Singles National Champion and he was also part of Great Britain’s winning junior team at the 2007 World Team Cup. He feels his greatest achievement was representing ParalympicsGB at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games when he was just 16 years of age. When he was younger, Gordon combined his training commitments with his studies and in 2009 he passed Highers in Maths, English and Biology after attending Hermitage Academy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gordon Reid (tennis)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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