Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid warmed up for his or her bid for a fifth consecutive Australian Open males’s doubles title by successful the Melbourne Wheelchair Open.
The British pair beat Joachim Gerard and Stephane Houdet, who can be two of their rivals in subsequent week’s Grand Slam, on a match tie-break 6-3 1-6 (10-8).
Hewett and Reid have received 18 Grand Slam doubles titles as a pair, together with every in Australia since 2020.
However Hewett misplaced within the Melbourne Open’s males’s singles ultimate towards Tokito Oda.
He was crushed 6-2 7-6 (8-6) by Japan’s Oda, the 2023 French Open and Wimbledon champion.
The wheelchair occasions have been expanded to 16 gamers in every of the lads’s, girls’s and quad classes at this 12 months’s Australian Open and start on 23 January in Melbourne.