Lexus British Open Roehampton 2026: Results & update

Day two: Hewett eases into semi-finals

Alfie Hewett secured another straightforward victory to reach the semi-final of the men's wheelchair singles in Roehampton, but there was defeat for Greg Slade and Andy Lapthorne.

Reigning champion Hewett wasted no time in breezing past No.9 Zhenxu Ji 6-1, 6-1.

Hewett will face a familiar opponent in Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez in the semi-final after he knocked out Ruben Spaargaren 6-3, 7-5.

The other semi-final will be fought between world No.1 Tokito Oda and Spain's Martin de La Puente, who defeated Gordon Reid yesterday.

New British quad singles No.1 Slade lost a nail-biting clash with Eastbourne champion Jin Woodman.

Slade battled back to win the second set tie-break, but the Australian eventually came through 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-2. He plays world No.1 Niels Vink in the next round.

Lapthorne lost to world No.3 Guy Sasson 6-1, 6-1 in the first match on Court 1. Sasson now faces Dutch star Sam Schroder in the semis.

The women's singles semi-finals will be Diede de Groot vs Aniek Van Koot, and Xiaohui Li vs Ziying Wang.

Doubles

The doubles draws got underway on Wednesday with several Brits in action.

Ben Bartram and Japanese partner Takuya Miki were amongst the match winners in the men's wheelchair doubles.

Bartram and Miki knocked out Daniel Caverzaschi and Casey Ratzlaff 5-7, 6-3, 10-8 in an epic on Court 17.

Lapthorne and Slade got a walkover into the quad doubles semi-final against Schroder and Woodman.

However, there were defeats for Lucy Shuker, Cornelia Oosthuizen, Andrew Penney, Dahnon Ward, Oliver Cox and Gary Cox.