The title looked a long way off as top seeds Hewett and Reid struggled in the first set, losing six games in a row after going up 2-0 early.<\/p>\n
De le Puente and Spaargaren kept the pressure up in the second and looked in control after breaking to lead 3-2.<\/p>\n
However, Hewett and Reid hit back immediately and the momentum of the match switched in an instant.<\/p>\n
The British duo took four consecutive games to win the set and force the 10-point match tie-break.<\/p>\n
It went back and forth in the early stages but Hewett and Reid opened up a gap to lead 7-4 and despite a double fault from Hewett at 8-6, they kept their composure to seal their third major win of 2026.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Hewett booked his place in the men’s wheelchair singles final. The second seed was leading 6-0 3-0 when Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez retired injured.<\/p>\n
He will face defending champion and top seed Tokito Oda of Japan, who has won the previous three majors in 2026 and is going for the calendar Grand Slam.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Briton Matthew Knoesen had a day to remember as he won both the junior boys wheelchair singles and doubles titles.<\/p>\n
The singles crown was claimed with a 6-0 6-2 win over Australia’s Sonny Rennison, while Knoesen partnered with Hirofumi Inoue of Japan to win the doubles title – they beat fellow Briton Will Barton and Italy’s Lorenzo Politano 6-1 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The title looked a long way off as top seeds Hewett and Reid struggled in the first set,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767872","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\/767872","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=767872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}