US Open 2025: Alfie Hewett & Gordon Reid finish runners-up as Ruben Harris brings home junior wheelchair doubles title
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Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid finished as runners-up in the US Open wheelchair men’s doubles after losing a deciding match tie-break in the final.
Five-time US Open men’s doubles champions and 23-time Grand Slam champions Hewett and Reid lost out to Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez and Japan’s Tokito 6-1, 2-6, 10-6.
The Brits had been searching for their first US Open title since 2021 and their third Grand Slam of the 2025 season.
Hewett and Reid responded well after losing the opening set – breaking in the fourth game of the second set and winning all 12 points on serve to force the match to a deciding tie-break.
Locked at 5-5 in the tie-break, Oda and Fernandez had the extra level to get over the line. The Argentinian, Japanese duo won five of the last six points – clinching the title after a backhand error from British No.1 Hewett.
Hewett, a four-time US Open men’s singles champion, also lost out in a match tie-break to Fernandez 6-7(4), 6-1, 7-5 in their semi-final earlier in the day.
18-year-old Ruben Harris, from Canterbury, Kent, claimed his second junior wheelchair title at a Grand Slam tournament on Saturday night in New York after he and regular doubles partner Maximilian Taucher of Austria won the boys’ wheelchair doubles final at the US Open.
Harris and Taucher defeated Brazil’s Luiz Calixto and Tomas Majetic of the USA 6-3, 6-3 to add to the junior boys’ wheelchair doubles title they won at the French Open in 2024.
“I'm still trying to soak it all in, but yeah, two-time champions at a Grand Slam. That’s not too bad, especially as it’s my last tournament in juniors, as well. It’s a good way to finish,” said Harris, who is supported by the LTA’s Wheelchair Performance Pathway and trains at Canterbury Tennis Club and the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton.
“Both sets were quite close, but I think we just played pretty smart in the whole match and took our opportunities. I’m definitely happy with how I've controlled myself, mentally, through all the matches and controlled the nerves through the final. It's been a big, big step for me.”
Breaking their opponents’ serve to love in the very first game of the final, Harris and Taucher reeled off the first three games without reply and claimed four of the last five games in the second set to wrap up victory in 67 minutes and seal their sixth junior doubles title together in 2025.
“Obviously, it's one of the biggest tournaments that junior wheelchair tennis can participate in, and it's always great to be here. To win is something else,” added Harris, who lost out to the eventual champions in both his opening singles and doubles matches on his US Open debut in 2024.
“Thank you to all my team. I’ve got Imran (Aswat, National Age Group Programme Coach) from the LTA here, My personal coach Rob has unfortunately had to go home, Francesco, my hitting partner, he's here, along with my dad and I know the rest of my family are watching back home, even though it's late.”
