Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid equalled the overall record for Grand Slam doubles titles won by any one partnership on Saturday as they clinched their fifth successive French Open wheelchair doubles title and 20th Grand Slam title together following a 6-1 6-4 victory over Japanese second seeds Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda. “It wasn’t something…
Alfie Hewett, the five-time Rotterdam champion Getty Images Alfie Hewett moved to within one tournament win of 60 international singles titles across junior and senior competition after he beat Belgian Joachim Gerard 6-2 6-3 on Sunday to claim his fifth successive men’s wheelchair singles title at the ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam. Top seed Hewett…
Alfie Hewett suffered a tight loss in the Australian Open wheelchair championship’s final going down to Japan’s Tokito Oda in straight sets. Hewett, the defending champion after wining the Gand Slam last year, was defeated 6-2 6-4 by the Japanese youngster whom he defeated 12-months ago for the title. The 17-year-old Oda has now won…
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid won their fifth successive Australian Open men’s wheelchair doubles title on Friday as Andy Lapthorne completed another tremendous day for British wheelchair tennis and players supported by the LTA’s Elite Wheelchair Programme as he partnered the USA’s David Wagner to their fifth Australian Open quad doubles title in 10 years….
Alfie Hewett will contest his 17th Grand Slam singles final on Saturday at the Australian Open after the world No.1 today produced a powerhouse performance to beat Belgium’s Joachim Gerard 6-4 6-1 to reach his fourth successive title decider at Melbourne Park. He will now play Japan’s world No.2 Tokito Oda in the final for…
