'It's amazing': Tennis star Jordanne Whiley receives MBE

Whiley last year completed the feat that has eluded all previous disabled and able bodied tennis players - a calendar Grand Slam of all four majors.

The 23-year-old from Halesowen, who has brittle bone disease, won the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open doubles crowns with sporting partner Yui Kamiji from Japan.

The pair have dominated women's doubles in recent years and during 2015 defended their Wimbledon and Australian titles.

Whiley last month won the wheelchair singles championship at the US Open - the first British woman to do so.

After the Buckingham Palace investiture ceremony earlier today the tennis star played down her achievement.

"I didn't actually set out to do the calendar Grand Slam," she said.

"I think it wasn't until I'd won the Australian Open and Roland Garros that I said to Yui 'we're halfway there, we might as well go for all four' and everything just clicked and it was my year."

Of her MBE, she added: "It's amazing I didn't expect it at all, when I got the letter through the post I read it about five or six times, I thought it was a mistake - I just couldn't believe it."

She was cheered on for her US Open singles triumph last month from back in the Black Country.

Parents Keith and Julie Whiley and her aunt Coral were nervously watching the match in New York on TV at home.

Following the win Jordanne tweeted to fans: "It feels like a dream" alongside pictures from the presentation.

The tennis star won a wheelchair doubles bronze medal during the London 2012 Paralympics and is aiming for two golds - singles and doubles - at the Rio Games next year.

Whiley said coverage of the Paralympics helped to boost the profile of disabled sport and her own achievements had increased public awareness about wheelchair tennis.