Grand Slam
US Open 2026: Alfie Hewett & Gordon Reid battle back for sixth US Open doubles title
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Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid claimed their sixth US Open men’s wheelchair doubles title after defeating 2025 Wimbledon champions Martin de la Puente of Spain and Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands, while Hewett booked his place in his eighth men’s singles final in nine appearances in New York.
Hewett and Reid beat De la Puente and Spaargaren 2-6, 6-3, 10-7, but it was fair from plain sailing for the pair. Having secured a 2-0 lead at the start of the match, seven games lost in succession put their chances of claiming a third Grand Slam doubles title of the season in serious jeopardy.
From a set and a break down, however, the world No.1 doubles pairing regained the momentum to win the last four games of the second set before asserting themselves in the second half of the deciding match tie-break.
Hewett, who has won all 26 of his Grand Slam doubles titles partnering Reid, said: “This (a first US Open title since 2021) is something we’ve been desperate and highly motivated for. Thank you to Gordon for an incredible week. It won't be the last, we’ve got plenty more doubles to play in the future.
“These are the sorts of matches we want to play, especially in front of such an incredible crowd. It’s obviously a big year for wheelchair tennis, with it being 50 years, and it’s so amazing to see how far it’s come.”
Reid, for whom Friday’s victory brought the seventh US Open and 30th Grand Slam doubles title of his career, said: “Thank you Alfie, It’s been more than 13 years we’ve been playing together and hopefully we’ve still got a few more years left in us.
“It’s always an hour to play on these courts, especially when we have a great crowd like you guys tonight to make a great atmosphere for us.”
In the singles, Hewett will face top seed Tokito Oda of Japan in Sunday’s men’s singles final.
The four-time US Open champion led 2025 runner-up Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina 6-0, 3-0 before Fernandez had to retire.
In the juniors, Matthew Knoesen became the third Brit since 2022 to win the US Open boys’ wheelchair singles title before adding the boys’ doubles title later in the day.
Kent’s Knoesen beat Australian Sonny Renison 6-0, 6-2 in the boys’ singles final, later partnering Japan’s Hirofumi Inoue to defeat fellow Brit Will Barton and Italy’s Lorenzo Politano 6-1, 6-0 in the boys’ doubles final.
