Reid will now complete 2014 by bidding to retain his men’s singles title at this weekend’s National Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Gloucester.

With the world number three having made his debut in the elite field of eight men’s players at the Masters within weeks of playing at the London 2012 Paralympics, he marked his returned to Lee Valley Tennis Centre — the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park venue which hosted the 2012 Paralympic tennis event — by winning two of his three matches in his round-robin group of four players.

He then went on to beat Dutch world number six Maikel Scheffers 6-0, 6-3 in Saturday’s third place play-off after coming up against an inspired performance from Japanese world number one Shingo Kunieda in the semi-finals before Kunieda went on to lift the title for the third time on Sunday. Reid was the only player to beat Kunieda this season.

Reid said: “Yesterday was quite frustrating because I didn’t feel I played great tennis, so to come out today and just enjoy playing tennis was really important for me. I was really relaxed, I wasn’t trying too hard and wasn’t forcing anything so it was coming quite naturally and I’m delighted to finish third.

“I’ve had a pretty good week and a good season, I owe a lot to the continued support I get from UK Sport and National Lottery funding, the Tennis Foundation, Tennis Scotland and the sportscotland Institute of Sport. I’ve been pretty consistent throughout the whole year, I’ve had a couple of bad tournaments, but that happens to everyone, and I’ve had a couple of really good ones and I’ve improved a lot.

“I’ve been sitting at number three for pretty much the whole year this year, so next year I’m going to try and break that top two ranking. Those guys up there have been pretty dominant for two or three years, so I want to break that dominance and hopefully win my first grand slam.” Before that he heads to Oxstalls Indoor Tennis Centre in Gloucester, the venue where he made history in 2007 when, at the age of 15, be became Britain’s youngest national champion. Reid won his second national men’s singles title in London in 2013.

The 2014 National Wheelchair Tennis Championships takes place at Oxstalls Indoor Tennis Centre, Gloucester, on December 4-7.