Abbie Breakwell

Abbie first tried wheelchair tennis in July 2015 when she was the only wheelchair user among the ball crew for the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Nottingham and was invited to a have-a-go session during the tournament. Within weeks she was attending weekly wheelchair tennis sessions at three venues across the East Midlands and has not looked back.

She earned her first set of singles and doubles gold medals at the School Games National Finals in 2016 and represented Great Britain for the first time when selected for the Great Britain junior team to contest the junior event at the 2018 World Team Cup before winning her first senior doubles title in 2019 when partnering fellow Brit and two-time Paralympian Louise Hunt to victory at the Abingdon Futures.

With the 2020 season largely lost to the Covid-19 pandemic, Abbie was selected to make her senior Great Britain debut when representing the women’s team at the 2021 World Team Cup in Portugal, aged 18 and she enjoyed a stellar 2022 season, winning her first senior women’s singles title on home soil in Nottingham. The winner of eight women’s doubles during 2022, Abbie goes into her first Paralympics in Paris with seven women’s singles titles and 18 women’s doubles titles to her name,

Aside from own wheelchair tennis career Abbie is studying for a degree in Sport and Exercise Therapy at Loughborough University, where she also coaches wheelchair tennis in what spare time she has. She has also been an ambassador for the This Girl Can campaign for several years and is an enthusiastic advocate for inclusion in sport.