A Scottish tennis player won the biggest prize in tennis at Wimbledon on Sunday (10 July) and immediately set his sights on gold at Rio 2016.

No, not Andy Murray, but compatriot Gordon Reid, who won the first ever men's singles competition for wheelchair tennis. Wheelchair tennis debuted at the Olympic Games at Barcelona 1992, but this year was the first time that men's and women's singles competitions were held at the spiritual home of tennis.

Reid beat Sweden's Stefan Olsson 6-1, 6-4 to add to the wheelchair tennis doubles title he won on Saturday with teenage partner Alfie Hewett as well as the Australian Open he conquered by himself in Melbourne in January. Reid was also runner-up in the French Open. He is currently ranked world no.3.

Still savouring his triumph, the Scot said he is already planning ahead for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. 

“It’s not going to be easy,” he told the Guardian “Everyone has been preparing for this for a long time and it’s a big draw. I will just try to have the same mindset as this week, go out there, trust myself, trust my game, just focus on the performance and let the results take care of themselves.”

Reid has been wheelchair bound since developing a rare neurological condition, transverse myelitis, in 2004.

"This sport helped me so much in my recovery from my condition," he said after his historic Wimbledon win. "If this can help in some way, inspire more people, get more people playing, if it helps some other kids the same way it helped me, then that's just as special to me as winning the title."

In Rio, Reid is looking forward to playing on the hard courts, the same surface as used in the Australian Open. "It's a surface I enjoy playing on. All the top players are there. People have been working years to try to win a medal at the Paralympics. It's going to be very difficult."

Doubles partner Hewett will be joining Reid in Rio as part of a powerful looking British team for wheelchair tennis. At Wimbledon on Saturday, the pair defeated French top seeds Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer in three thrilling sets.  It's 18-year-old Hewett's first Grand Slam title.

The Dutch are also coming to Brazil with a strong wheelchair tennis line-up. Jiske Griffioen captured her fourth Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, defeating compatriot Aniek van Koot 4-6, 6-0, 6-4.

The women’s doubles final featured the same two teams for a fourth consecutive year in top seeds Yui Kamiji of Japan and Jordanne Whiley of Great Britain against second seeds Griffioen and Van Koot. Kamiji and Whiley, the two-time defending champions, captured the title 6-2, 6-2. 

At London 2012, the Netherlands dominated the sport, picking up two gold medals, two silver and two bronze.