HELENSBURGH’S wheelchair tennis hero Gordon Reid added another prize to his growing list of accolades when he was named para-sport athlete of the year at the Scottish Sports Awards.

Gordon, whose gold and silver medals at the Rio Paralympics added to his Wimbledon and Australian Open triumphs earlier in the year, was joined on the winners’ rostrum by, among others, his fellow Rio and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and Olympic rower Katherine Grainger.

The ceremony took place in Edinburgh last Wednesday, before The Advertiser went to press, and was attended by more than 50 Scottish Olympians and Paralympians from the recent Games in Rio.

Karen Ross, Reid’s coach, was nominated in the Coach of the Year category.

It capped a successful year for Reid, who attended the record breaking Glasgow Wheelchair Tournament at the weekend.

Ruiari Logan, 14, won the event with a record entry of 35 players for the penultimate Tennis Foundation National Wheelchair Tennis Series event of 2016.

They were treated to a visit from world number one, who returned to the tournament where he first played competitively and won the B Division singles event in 2005.

Reid took his Rio men’s singles gold and doubles silver medals along to Scotsoun as he continues to inspire the new generation of wheelchair tennis players in Scotland.

In return, he had Happy Birthday sung to him on the occasion of his 25th birthday and was presented with a cake depicting a golden racket and tennis ball celebrating his recently-earned world number one status.

Speaking to the Tennis Foundation, Reid said: “One of the things I’ve been saying all year round is we want to try and get more people playing the sport and hopefully the success I’ve had this year will help with that.

“It’s great to see, straight off the back of the Paralympics, so many people here playing the event this weekend in Glasgow and hopefully it leads on to even more coming up next year

“Maybe I’ve helped inspire some of the younger guys here, but it’s down to the hard work of those at Tennis Scotland and the Tennis Foundation, as well, one of them being Kev [Kevin Simpson, wheelchair tennis engagement officer for Scotland], so hopefully we can find even more players.”