Fifth seed Reid was first to breeze through to the last eight after outfoxing Takuya Miki of Japan 6-1, 6-1, continuing his 19-match winning streak against the ninth seed.

“I knew it was going to be a step up in level from yesterday’s match, but I think I responded to that really well,” said Reid.

“I controlled the majority of the match and I’m just really happy to take the next step forward.”

World No.1 and top seed, Hewett, would later join his long-term doubles partner in the latter stages of the draw after a nervy 7-5, 6-2 victory over the world No.16, Japan’s Daisuke Arai.  

Visibly relieved after the twists and turns of the match, Hewett said: “I haven’t really played a lot against (Arai) in recent years, so it was a learning on the job kind of match.

“He was taking my serve really early and punishing me. So, it put a lot of stress on me but I can give myself a lot of credit for how I coped with that, saving four set points in that opening set and then taking control in the second.”

Reid, who this year contests his fifth Games, is the more experienced of the partnership, having made his debut at Beijing 2008 more than a decade ago.  

However, the 32-year-old wouldn’t come into success on the Paralympic stage until Rio 2016, where he won gold in the men’s singles and silver in the doubles alongside Hewett, before again medalling at Tokyo 2020 with a bronze in singles and a second career silver in doubles.

In contrast, Hewett, 26, realised unprecedented success on debut at Rio 2016, reaching the first all-British wheelchair tennis gold medal match where he eventually secured his second silver medal of the Games, finishing runner-up to partner Reid.

Having achieved close to every accolade the Tour has to offer, including all four Grand Slams after lifting the title at SW19 earlier this season, the world No.1 still has one challenge remaining: to complete the career ‘Golden Slam’.  

After collecting wins over Israel’s Sergei Lysov and today, Arai, nine-time Grand Slam champion Hewett will face 10^th seed Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, while former Wimbledon champion Reid is slated to play fourth seed, and the 2024 British Open Champion, Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina.

However, for Lucy Shuker, and quad stars Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade, it was the end of the road for their respective singles campaigns.

Shuker, who was chosen by her fellow athletes to be one of two flagbearers for ParalympicGB in the opening ceremony, exited the second round of the women’s singles after losing to China’s Xiaohui Li; a player who ended Diede de Groot’s impressive 145 match winning streak at the World Team Cup in May.

Lapthorne and Slade also lost their quarter-final match-ups, but the doubles pair won’t be leaving the French capital empty handed as their scintillating display in the doubles semi-finals on Sunday guaranteed them a silver medal.

“Whenever you wear this kit, you need to be prepared to fight for everything and I wouldn’t put this shirt on and not do that,” said Lapthorne.

“You leave everything on the court. It’s tough to take but you can also feel proud that you gave everything. I feel like for four Paralympics that’s what I’ve done so you can’t ask anymore of yourself. I’ll go away, I’ll reflect, try and rebuild again and then we’ll see what happens.

“I’m going to leave here very happy, very proud and obviously with at least a silver medal (in the doubles).”

The British duo will play Dutch top seeds Sam Schroder and Niels Vink in Wednesday’s final.