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Lucy Shuker
British wheelchair tennis player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucy Jessica Shuker[1] BEM (born 28 May 1980[2]) is a British wheelchair tennis player[3] who is currently the highest ranked woman in the sport in Britain.[4][5] A previous singles and doubles National Champion, Shuker has represented Great Britain at four successive Paralympic Games, twice winning a bronze medal in the women's doubles and is former world doubles champion and World Team Cup silver medallist amongst a number of other national and international successes.
![]() Shuker at the 2015 US Open. | |
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Residence | Fleet, Hampshire |
Born | (1980-05-28) 28 May 1980 (age 44) Doha, Qatar |
Turned pro | 2002 |
Plays | Right Handed |
Official website | https://www.lucyshuker.com/ |
Singles | |
Career record | 446–290 |
Career titles | 31 |
Highest ranking | No.5 (25 March 2013) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | SF (2013, 2017, 2022) |
French Open | SF (2007) |
Wimbledon | QF (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023) |
US Open | QF (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023) |
Other tournaments | |
Paralympic Games | QF (2012) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 403–221 |
Career titles | 75 |
Highest ranking | No.3 (10 June 2013) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | F (2010, 2013, 2022) |
French Open | SF (2008, 2009, 2016) |
Wimbledon | F (2009, 2010, 2012, 2018, 2021) |
US Open | SF (2013, 2015, 2017) |
Other doubles tournaments | |
Masters Doubles | (2016) |
Paralympic Games | ![]() |
World Team Cup | ![]() ![]() |
In 2008,[6] she competed in the singles and doubles events for the first time in Wheelchair tennis at the Beijing Paralympics.[7]
Shuker made history at the London 2012 Paralympics alongside fellow Briton Jordanne Whiley when the pair became the first women to win a medal for Great Britain in wheelchair tennis, coming from match point down to secure bronze in the women's doubles event.[8][9]
Shuker and Whiley retained their bronze medal status in the women's wheelchair doubles at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio.[10]