Alfie Hewett has reached the men’s wheelchair singles semi-finals at the Australian Open by beating doubles partner Gordon Reid – but the British pair’s hunt for a seventh consecutive doubles title in Melbourne is over.<\/p>\n
Top seed and world number two Hewett, 28, moved one step closer to defending his singles title by securing a 6-2 6-3 victory in one hour and 33 minutes on Margaret Court Arena.<\/p>\n
He won a second Australian Open singles title last year, which was also his 10th Grand Slam singles title overall.<\/p>\n
Hewett will face Spain’s Martin de la Puente in the semi-finals, after the third seed defeated France’s Stephane Houdet 6-3 6-2.<\/p>\n
But in the doubles, Hewett and Reid were beaten in a match tie-break, losing their semi-final 6-4 2-6 10-4 to Japan’s Tokito Oda and Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez.<\/p>\n
The British pair had won 18 of the previous 23 Grand Slam titles in the doubles format.<\/p>\n
In the quad doubles, Great Britain’s Andy Lapthorne and Australia’s Heath Davidson will face top seeds Guy Sasson and Niels Vink in the final, after needing a 10-point match tie-break to come through their semi-final 4-6 7-6 (10-8) 10-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alfie Hewett has reached the men’s wheelchair singles semi-finals at the Australian Open by beating doubles partner Gordon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-397215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}