Dahnon Ward

Born in Thailand before moving to the UK during early childhood, Dahnon started playing wheelchair tennis in November 2015 and enjoyed a distinguished junior career which included winning a series of silver medals as part of Great Britain’s junior World Team Cup Team.

One of those silver medals came in 2019 and the following year Ward was recognised for his achievements on the court and the example he sets off the court when he was name as the inaugural winner of the ITF Junior Wheelchair Tennis Player of the Year Award.

He made his senior international team debut alongside Ben Bartram at the 2022 World Team Cup European Qualification Tournament shortly after Ward and Bartram had combined to win the boys’ doubles title at the Wheelchair Tennis Junior Masters.

Towards the end of the 2022 season he again combined with Bartram to win the boys’ doubles title at the inaugural US Open Junior Wheelchair Tennis Championships in New York, where he finished runner-up to Bartram in the boys singles.

Bartram returned to the US Open Junior Championships in 2023 to lift the boys’ singles title and retain the boys’ doubles title short after winning the biggest senior title of his career to date at the Sion Open in Switzerland.

Ward became a senior world champion for the first time this year after joining Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Ben Bartram in the victorious Great Britain men’s team at the World Team Cup in Turkey.