Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett is into his fifth successive wheelchair singles final at Wimbledon after he fought back from a set down to beat Gustavo Fernandez.<\/p>\n
Hewett, the second seed, was edged out in a first-set tie-break but recovered well and stormed to a 6-7 (2-7) 6-0 6-3 victory against the Argentine.<\/p>\n
“It was a rollercoaster of a match. I seem to always have these sorts of matches in the semi-final against Gustavo,” said 2024 champion Hewett.<\/p>\n
“It’s these sort of matches that I believe puts wheelchair tennis on the map a lot more.”<\/p>\n
Hewett, a 10-time Grand Slam singles champion, said he wanted to “leave this place” when he fell a set down on Court One.<\/p>\n
“I took myself away after the first set and just tried to focus on the next set and forget what happened, because I don’t think I played my best tennis,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I was a it too tense and the emotion got the better of me.”<\/p>\n
Hewett will face Japan’s Tokito Oda, who got the better of the Briton in last year’s Wimbledon final and has won the past five Grand Slam singles titles.<\/p>\n
“He’s obviously flying at the moment, won all the Grand Slams this year and he’s world number one for a reason,” Hewett said.<\/p>\n
Hewett and team-mate Gordon Reid, the six-time Wimbledon doubles champions, will come up against Oda and Fernandez in the doubles showpiece on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The British pair missed out on a third successive doubles title last year when they fell to Spain’s Martin de la Puente and Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
In the quad wheelchair singles semis, Britain’s Andy Lapthorne was beaten 6-1 6-1 by second seed Sam Schroder, who will face fellow Dutchman – and number one seed – Niels Vink in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett is into his fifth successive wheelchair singles final at Wimbledon after he fought back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-755778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}