Rob
Shaw

As of July 2024, Rob Shaw is ranked No. 8 in the world in the quad division. On July 14, 2024, he won the German open defeating Francisco Cayulef of Chile. It was Cayulef who beat Shaw in the 2023 Parapan American Games final. In 2024, he also reached another final in 11 tournament appearances (as of July 14).

On July 21, Shaw beat Cayulef again to win the Swiss Open, Shaw’s first career victory in the ITF Series 1 circuit.

In January, 2023, he reached a career high ranking of sixth. He competed at each of the four Grand Slams and was a doubles finalist at Wimbledon and Roland Garros. He ended the season with a silver medal at the Parapan American Games. dropping a three-set decision to Cayulef with last two hours and 19 minutes in searing heat.

At his first multi-sport Games, Rob Shaw won the gold in the men’s quad category in wheelchair tennis at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru. Shaw did it in grand style as well, defeating world number-one David Wagner of the U.S., a player he had never beaten before. His classification, quad tennis, was included at the Parapan Ams for the first time in 2019.

With that win, he made Canadian tennis history by becoming the first player, in stand-up or wheelchair tennis, to win a multi-sport medal in singles competition.

Unfortunately the pandemic ended that successful momentum he had going into Tokyo and he fell in the round of 16 in his Paralympic Games debut. Shaw said it was important for him to train at home and designed a successful plan with his support team.

Shaw reached the Top 10 world rankings in the men’s singles quad category for the first time in 2018, after he made his biggest career final at the ITF 1 Series Birmingham Classic event. At the end of 2019 he was ranked ninth in the world.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

2020 Paralympic Games… 2019 (gold), 2023 (silver) Parapan American Games

PERSONAL

Completed his PhD in Health and Exercise Sciences at the University of British Columbia … Coached tennis from the age of 15 to 21, including stand-up and wheelchair tennis…. Injured in a diving accident at the age of 21, becoming partially paralyzed from the neck down…. Started playing wheelchair tennis after his accident.

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

2023 Parapan American Games Quad singles 2nd

2020 Paralympic Games Quad singles round of 16

2019 Parapan American Games Quad singles 1st