Ruthless Hewett into wheelchair singles semi-finals

Alfie Hewett is bidding for his second singles title at the Australian Open

Australian Open 2025

Dates: 12-26 January Venue: Melbourne Park

Coverage: Live radio commentary on Tennis Breakfast from 07:00 GMT on BBC 5 Sports Extra, plus live text commentaries on the BBC Sport website and app

Britain's Alfie Hewett reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open wheelchair singles before teaming up with Gordon Reid to progress to the last four of the doubles.

Second seed Hewett, the 2023 singles champion at Melbourne Park, claimed a flawless 6-0 6-0 win over Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands.

Reid lost his singles quarter-final 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 6-1 to Argentine fourth seed Gustavo Fernandez, who will play Hewett next.

Hewett and Reid - who are top seeds and have won the Melbourne doubles title together on five occasions - then joined forces to beat Japanese duo Takuya Miki and Daisuke Arai 6-2 6-0.

In the women's wheelchair doubles, Lucy Shuker and Japan's Yui Kamiji sealed a 6-1 6-0 quarter-final win over Chile's Macarena Cabrillana and Saki Takamuro, also of Japan.

Andy Lapthorne and his Dutch partner Sam Schroder defeated Chile's Francisco Cayulef and Gonzalo Enrique Lazarte of Argentina 5-7 7-5 12-10 to reach the semi-finals of the quad wheelchair doubles, but Lapthorne lost his singles quarter-final 6-2 6-0 to Dutch second seed Niels Vink.