Published: Thursday, 16th November, 2006 11:39
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A TEENAGE wheelchair tennis sensation has reached his highest world ranking.
Gifted Gordon Reid is number 76 in the men's singles world rankings and is tipped to take part in the London 2012 Paralympics — despite only taking up the sport in February 2005.
The 15-year-old, from Helensburgh, reached his top spot after progressing through one round of last week's Nottingham Indoor Tournament, only his second ever event competing in an international main draw singles.
The talented teen took up the sport after he was paralysed from the waist down following the sudden onset of transverse myelitis.
But the Hermitage Academy pupil has flourished in the sport and so far this year he has won a whole host of titles.
He clinched top place at the Glasgow Wheelchair Tennis Tournament, a prominent event on the domestic tour, he finished runner-up in the Men's Second Draw Singles at the North East tournament in Sunderland and he won the Men's Second Draw Singles and the Junior Boys Singles at the British Open in Nottingham in July.
Gordon was a keen tennis player and member of Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club before his illness and took up the wheelchair version after a nurse told him about it.
He will have the chance to enhance his ranking and his growing reputation at the end of November when he takes part in his final tournament of 2006, the Prague Cup Czech Indoors in the Czech Republic.
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