Britain’s Alfie Hewett reached the ultimate of the lads’s wheelchair singles on the Australian Open however Gordon Reid was denied a gathering along with his doubles associate by Japan’s Tokito Oda.
Defending champion Hewett, an eight-time Grand Slam singles winner, beat Belgium’s Joachim Gerard 6-4 6-1.
However 2016 champion Reid misplaced 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 to 17-year-old Oda in Melbourne.
The pair’s doubles semi-final towards Japanese duo Daisuke Arai and Takashi Sanada was postponed due to rain.
Andy Lapthorne and American team-mate David Wagner additionally had their quad wheelchair doubles semi-final towards Australian Heath Davidson and Canada’s Robert Shaw rescheduled to Friday.
Hewett’s bid to succeed in consecutive Australian Open finals suffered an preliminary setback when he misplaced serve within the opening recreation – however the 26-year-old went on to win 12 of 16 video games as he breezed via to the ultimate.
The Briton broke Gerard twice to show the primary set round and set up a 4-1 lead, earlier than breaking once more to clinch the opener after Gerard had introduced it again on serve.
The second set proved rather more easy for Hewett, who received the Australian Open title for the primary time final yr, with a double break serving to him to a 5-0 lead on his option to sealing victory.
However Reid, trying to win a nineteenth Grand Slam doubles titles alongside Hewett, misplaced out in an in depth contest with Oda.
With a tie-break required to separate the gamers within the first set, Reid couldn’t get better after Oda made a sequence of winners for a 4-0 head-start.
The primary break of serve didn’t arrive till the eighth recreation of the second set when Oda took a 3rd break level to guide 5-3 – however Reid instantly broke again to remain within the match.
Nonetheless, Oda landed the ultimate blow as Reid served to power one other tie-break to arrange a ultimate with Hewett, who he beat within the French Open and Wimbledon finals in 2023 however misplaced to in final yr’s Australian Open title decider.