Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid started their bid for a sixth wheelchair doubles title at the US Open with a dominant opening victory in New York.<\/p>\n
Playing Frenchman Stephane Houdet and China’s Zhenxu Ji, the British top seeds sealed a 6-3 6-1 win to progress to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
They will next face Japan’s Tokito Oda and Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez, the 2025 champions at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n
Hewett, 28, and Reid, 34, have 25 Grand Slam doubles titles as a pair and begin their singles campaigns on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on Tuesday, Britain’s Andy Lapthorne enjoyed a winning start to the final major of the season in the quad wheelchair doubles.<\/p>\n
He and South African partner Leon Els beat Americans David Wagner and Andrew Bogdanov 7-6 (7-5) 6-1.<\/p>\n
But there was disappointment for Greg Slade and Australian Heath Davidson as they were defeated 6-0 6-0 by the top seeds, Dutchman Niels Vink and Israel’s Guy Sasson.<\/p>\n
Vink and Sasson have won all three Grand Slam tournaments so far in 2026, and the last six majors in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid started their bid for a sixth wheelchair doubles title at the US Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764544","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\/764544","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=764544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}