{"id":768821,"date":"2026-09-13T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768821\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:16:11","slug":"us-open-2026-results-alfie-hewett-wins-fifth-mens-wheelchair-singles-title-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768821\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026 results: Alfie Hewett wins fifth men’s wheelchair singles title in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Alfie Hewett beat Tokito Oda to clinch a fifth US Open men’s wheelchair singles title and prevent the Japanese top seed from completing a clean sweep at the Grand Slams in 2026.<\/p>\n

A 6-0 7-6 (7-5) victory meant Hewett added to the doubles title he won alongside fellow Briton Gordon Reid<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

Hewett, 28, lost to Oda in the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon earlier this year, winning only two games in a 6-1 6-1 defeat<\/a> at SW19, while the Japanese also triumphed at January’s Australian Open.<\/p>\n

Hewett told BBC Sport that his loss to Oda at Wimbledon made him “look in the mirror” and a period of reflection led to him wanting to “be a little bit more like me” as he pursued an 11th Grand Slam singles title.<\/p>\n

“I’m known for being just as fearless, brave and courageous in big moments and I felt I was everything but that in Wimbledon,” Hewett said.<\/p>\n

“I was quiet, I was timid, I was a shell of myself.<\/p>\n

“I think I have had six weeks of champing at the bit to come out and prove to myself that I can be more like that person.”<\/p>\n

Hewett described his first-set performance as “possessed” as, after saving a break point in the opening game, he produced a dominant display, clinching the opener with a superb backhand return winner.<\/p>\n

The Briton secured victory in a second-set tie-break, having fought back from a double break down and saved three set points for Oda to level the match.<\/p>\n

Oda, who had won the past six Grand Slam singles titles, said on court: “Definitely I was trying to get the calendar year [Grand Slam] this year. <\/p>\n

“This was the last part of it so it’s really tough for me, but I think Alfie deserved it today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Alfie Hewett beat Tokito Oda to clinch a fifth US Open men’s wheelchair singles title and prevent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768821","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\/768821","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=768821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}