{"id":613685,"date":"2026-09-12T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/613685\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:08:09","slug":"us-open-2026-alfie-hewett-gordon-reid-battle-back-for-sixth-us-open-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/613685\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026: Alfie Hewett &#038; Gordon Reid battle back for sixth US Open doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid claimed their sixth US Open men\u2019s wheelchair doubles title after defeating 2025 Wimbledon champions Martin de la Puente of Spain and Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands, while Hewett booked his place in his eighth men\u2019s singles final in nine appearances in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/british-tennis-players\/alfie-hewett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hewett<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/british-tennis-players\/gordon-reid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reid<\/a> beat De la Puente and Spaargaren 2-6, 6-3, 10-7, but it was fair from plain sailing for the pair. Having secured a 2-0 lead at the start of the match, seven games lost in succession put their chances of claiming a third Grand Slam doubles title of the season in serious jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From a set and a break down, however, the world No.1 doubles pairing regained the momentum to win the last four games of the second set before asserting themselves in the second half of the deciding match tie-break.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hewett, who has won all 26 of his Grand Slam doubles titles partnering Reid, said:\u00a0\u201cThis (a first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/grand-slam\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> title since 2021) is something we\u2019ve been desperate and highly motivated for. Thank you to Gordon for an incredible week. It won&#8217;t be the last, we\u2019ve got plenty more doubles to play in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the sorts of matches we want to play, especially in front of such an incredible crowd. It\u2019s obviously a big year for wheelchair tennis, with it being 50 years, and it\u2019s so amazing to see how far it\u2019s come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reid, for whom Friday\u2019s victory brought the seventh US Open and 30th Grand Slam doubles title of his career, said:\u00a0\u201cThank you Alfie, It\u2019s been more than 13 years we\u2019ve been playing together and hopefully we\u2019ve still got a few more years left in us.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always an hour to play on these courts, especially when we have a great crowd like you guys tonight to make a great atmosphere for us.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the singles, Hewett will face top seed Tokito Oda of Japan in Sunday\u2019s men\u2019s singles final.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The four-time US Open champion led 2025 runner-up Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina 6-0, 3-0 before Fernandez had to retire.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the juniors, Matthew Knoesen became the third Brit since 2022 to win the US Open boys\u2019 wheelchair singles title before adding the boys\u2019 doubles title later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kent\u2019s Knoesen beat Australian Sonny Renison 6-0, 6-2 in the boys\u2019 singles final, later partnering Japan\u2019s Hirofumi Inoue to defeat fellow Brit Will Barton and Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Politano 6-1, 6-0 in the boys\u2019 doubles final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid claimed their sixth US Open men\u2019s wheelchair doubles title after defeating 2025 Wimbledon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-613685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}