Australian Open 2024 results: Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne win titles-ZoomTech News


Britons Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid received their fifth Australian Open males’s wheelchair doubles title in a row and there was additionally success for Britain’s Andy Lapthorne within the quad doubles.

Hewett and Reid beat the Japanese pair of Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda 6-3 6-2 within the last of their second match on Friday after rain delays on Thursday.

Lapthorne and American team-mate David Wagner received an exciting quad last.

They beat Donald Ramphadi and Man Sasson 6-4 3-6 10-2.

Hewett and Reid have now received 19 Grand Slam wheelchair doubles title collectively.

“A few of the factors in that match actually displayed the very best of wheelchair tennis,” Hewett stated. “One of the best bit about it’s you are feeling the love and the joy from the group as properly and you may inform they’re stepping into the match.”

Earlier on Friday, Hewett and Reid superior from their semi-final with a 6-3 6-3 win over one other Japanese pairing, Daisuke Arai and Takashi Sanada.

“There have been some family members and a few Scots on the market,” added Reid. “A few of them have simply flown over yesterday for this match.

“Clearly, it was nice to have them there. My mother and father are out right here as properly. It was my dad’s first time on the Australian Open. Hopefully he loved himself as we speak and loved that.”

Hewett received the lads’s wheelchair singles on the Australian Open in 2023 and the highest seed will play within the last on Saturday when he takes on second seed Oda.


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