HELENSBURGH wheelchair tennis star Gordon Reid will take to the court at Wimbledon next weekend in a bid to win his second Grand Slam title in six weeks.

Reid won his maiden Grand Slam title at the start of June when he partnered Shingo Kunieda of Japan to the French Open doubles title. In doing so he became the first Scot to win the French Open and only the third to win one of the sport’s four top events — putting him in the esteemed company of Andy and Jamie Murray.

The world number three had reached four previous Grand Slam finals only to miss out — coming agonisingly close at last year’s US Open when he had two match points.

Having finally got over the line, Reid is confident he can add to his Roland Garros win when he teams up with Frenchman Michael Jeremiasz at SW19 next week.

He said: “To finally win my first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros was an unbelievable experience and after having also reached doubles finals at the other Grand Slams I’m really looking forward to trying for a Wimbledon final in front of a British crowd.

“I’ve got a pretty good doubles record with Michael and we will be giving it our best to keep that going at Wimbledon.” Jeremiasz has his own good memories on the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon having partnered Brit Jayant Mistry to win the first men’s wheelchair tennis doubles event at SW19 in 2005.

While the doubles competition is set to be keenly contested, Wimbledon remains the only Grand Slam event which doesn’t have a singles competition for wheelchair players.

A total of £64,000 in prize money is on offer for the wheelchair tennis doubles competition and the event will be played from Friday, July 10 to Sunday, July 12.