Wimbledon 2023: Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid win wheelchair doubles title

Wimbledon 2023:GB's Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid become men's wheelchair doubles champions

By Joe Rindl
BBC Sport

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Venue: All England Club Dates: 3-16 July

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Great Britain's Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid won their fifth Wimbledon men's wheelchair doubles title together, beating Japan's Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in a thrilling final.

The top seeds came from behind to win 3-6 6-0 6-3 on a boisterous Court One.

It was the pair's 18th Grand Slam doubles title together.

"If you told me we'd be on Court One with a nearly full stadium, with a crowd going berserk, I'd have never have believed it," said Reid, 31.

"My first Wimbledon was in 2008 out on court 53 or something, in front of three men, a dog and my mum and my sister.

"Me and Alfie were both saying there when we were waiting to pick the trophy up, at match point we were both tearing up. The atmosphere was electric."

The pair were broken four times in the opening set but won 12 of the final 15 games to keep alive their hopes of a second calendar Grand Slam, having already won the Australian Open and French Open titles this year.

Defeat was Miki and Oda's first as a pairing, the duo playing in just their second tournament together having won the Japan Open in April.

"I've got goosebumps, this is the first time we've ever experienced anything like this," 25-year-old Hewett told the Court One crowd.

"Thank you so much. We dream of atmospheres like this, I'm glad we rose to the occasion today and gave you something to cheer about."

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Hewett will meet Oda in Sunday's singles final after the Briton beat Martin de la Puente 6-3 6-2 in his semi-final earlier on Saturday.

Oda, 17, defeated 2016 champion Reid 6-3 6-4.

Hewett, who lost to Japan's Shingo Kunieda in last year's final, is hoping to win his eighth singles Grand Slam and first at Wimbledon.

He was 3-1 down in the first set but won 11 of the next 13 games to reach his 15th major singles final.

Hewett has reached every Grand Slam final so far in 2023, beating Oda in the Australian Open but losing to the teenager at last month's French Open.

"[Oda's] a talented kid, he's only 17 still so he's got a lot to learn," Hewett said.

"He's already world number one so it's going to be a tough match. Last time I played him was in the Roland Garros final so I'll be hoping for a bit of revenge."

Meanwhile, top seed Diede de Groot lifted her 19th Grand Slam singles title as she beat fellow Dutchwoman Jiske Griffioen 6-2 6-1 in the women's wheelchair final.

In the quad wheelchair doubles final, Dutch duo Niels Vink and Sam Schroder beat Australia's Heath Davidson and Canada's Robert Shaw 7-6 (7-5) 6-0.

Earlier in the quad wheelchair singles semi-finals, Vink beat South African Donald Ramphadi 6-1 6-0 while Davidson defeated Schroder 6-4 2-6 6-3.

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