Australian Open 2024 results: Alfie Hewett reaches wheelchair singles final but Gordon Reid loses

Alfie Hewett won the Australian Open and US Open singles titles in 2023

Britain's Alfie Hewett reached the final of the men's wheelchair singles at the Australian Open but Gordon Reid was denied a meeting with his doubles partner by Japan's Tokito Oda.

Defending champion Hewett, an eight-time Grand Slam singles winner, beat Belgium's Joachim Gerard 6-4 6-1.

But 2016 champion Reid lost 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 to 17-year-old Oda in Melbourne.

The pair's doubles semi-final against Japanese duo Daisuke Arai and Takashi Sanada was postponed because of rain.

Andy Lapthorne and American team-mate David Wagner also had their quad wheelchair doubles semi-final against Australian Heath Davidson and Canada's Robert Shaw rescheduled to Friday.

Hewett's bid to reach consecutive Australian Open finals suffered an initial setback when he lost serve in the opening game - but the 26-year-old went on to win 12 of 16 games as he breezed through to the final.

The Briton broke Gerard twice to turn the first set around and establish a 4-1 lead, before breaking again to clinch the opener after Gerard had brought it back on serve.

The second set proved much more straightforward for Hewett, who won the Australian Open title for the first time last year, with a double break helping him to a 5-0 lead on his way to sealing victory.

"This is our third time already this year playing against each other, so we're quite familiar with each other's game styles," said Hewett, who lost to Gerard in the 2021 Australian Open final.

"I'm obviously just delighted to get through because he's someone who brings a lot to the court and he's given me plenty of challenges, especially in Australia a couple of years ago in the final.

"He's an incredibly tough player to play against and to get through that first set gave me a little bit of breathing room and definitely helped me to relax in that second set."

But Reid, attempting to win a 19th Grand Slam doubles titles alongside Hewett, lost out in a close contest with Oda.

With a tie-break required to separate the players in the first set, Reid could not recover after Oda made a series of winners for a 4-0 head-start.

The first break of serve did not arrive until the eighth game of the second set when Oda took a third break point to lead 5-3 - but Reid immediately broke back to stay in the match.

However, Oda landed the final blow as Reid served to force another tie-break to set up a final with Hewett, who he beat in the French Open and Wimbledon finals in 2023 but lost to in last year's Australian Open title decider.

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