It's a boy! Baby joy for tennis champion Jordanne Whiley

Son Jackson Nigel McCarroll was delivered on Tuesday at 3.30pm, weighing 7lb 13oz.

Jordanne, from Halesowen, who has won 10 tennis wheelchair titles, took a break from the sport whilst expecting her first child.

The 25-year-old first announced she was pregnant in July, less than two weeks after winning her fourth doubles title at Wimbledon, alongside Japanese team-mate Yui Kamiji.

Jordanne uploaded a photograph to her Instagram account announcing she had given birth, which featured a photograph of her partner, Marc McCarroll, also a wheelchair tennis player, holding their son.

She wrote: “I am so proud to introduce you to our son Jackson Nigel Mccarroll, born today at 15:30 weighing in at a healthy 7lb 13oz. I can’t believe he’s finally here. He’s absolutely perfect.”

Jordanne’s parents Keith and Julie said they were delighted to become grandparents. Keith, 69, who is also a former Paralympian, said: “We are really proud of Jordanne.

"She has given birth to a young boy. Jordanne is completely over the moon.

“We are travelling down to see him this afternoon.

“The baby looks a lot like Marc, which he is really happy about.

“Jordanne has obviously had a lot of energy taken out of her and she is absolutely whacked. Hopefully she is feeling better this afternoon. She was out of the hospital yesterday.”

Jordanne was 11 weeks pregnant last year when she won the wheelchair women’s doubles title at Wimbledon.

It was the ninth grand slam doubles title she had won, which included two wins at the Australian Open, French Open and US Open twice.

She also won the grand slam singles title at the US Open in 2015.

Jordanne was ranked the number one women’s wheelchair doubles player in the world on July 20, 2015. As of August 7, she was ranked 17.

Her highest ranking in the singles category was third, which she achieved on June 6, 2016. Currently, she is ranked 20.

Jordanne has also won a bronze medal at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games.

She was awarded her MBE in the 2015 Queens Birthday Honours.

Jordanne was born with brittle bone disease, also known as osteogenesis imperfecta, which her father Keith was also born with. But that has not stopped her going on to reach the peak of the sporting world.

Sporting success also runs in her family as Keith was also a Paralympian and won a bronze medal in New York in the 100m sprint.

He also played tennis, which is how Jordanne got into the sport, after she was given a racket and ball aged three. Her partner Marc, 32, who is also her coach, won the wheelchair British Open in 2014.

Marc, who was born to a family of athletes, used to play for Arsenal. But he was injured in a car accident in 2003 and took up wheelchair tennis two years later.

Keith added: “Jordanne is looking at whether she wants to get back to tennis. It will be a hard task but she will try.”