Hewett and Reid, five-time men’s doubles champions in New York between 2017 and 2021, hit 27 winners, three times as many as opponents Stephane Houdet and Takuya Miki, on their way to a comprehensive 6-2, 6-0 semi-final victory and they now go on to face  Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez and Tokito Oda of Japan.

“It’s nice to be back in the final. Not winning this trophy for a few years has definitely been on our minds in the last few weeks,” said Hewett, who earlier defeated Tokyo Paralympic silver medallist Tom Egberink 6-2, 6-3 to also earn a men’s singles semi against Fernandez.

“To be here playing some good stuff and building quite well into the final, there are a lot of positives we can take, but it’s going to be a tough final.“

Reid, who’s hopes of progressing in the men’s singles ended 6-2, 6-3 against third seed Martin de la Puente, added: “It was a pretty tricky first set. There were a couple of tight games that could have gone either way. But in the second set were started to get into our flow and produced some of our best stuff to seen the match out.”

Lapthorne back into final four

Lapthorne, the 2014 and 2019 US Open quad singles champion, returned to the last four after a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 victory over Australian teenager Jin Woodman, having been 3-0 up in both the second and third sets.

Lapthorne said, “I felt like the first three games of the second set are the best I’ve played here since 2019. Then I had points to go 4-0 up and started to self-sabotage a bit, so I’m a bit disappointed I let that happen, but it’s great to bounce back the way I did and it’s amazing to be in the semis again.”

Meanwhile, Friday’s penultimate day of wheelchair tennis action will see 18-year-old Ruben Harris contest his second junior boys’ doubles final at a Grand Slam.

Eighteen-year-old Harris, who won the 2024 French Open boys’ doubles title with Austrian Maximilian Taucher, also partnered Taucher to a first US Open final after the top seeds beat  Britain’s Lucas de Gouveia and Japan’s Ryota Kawada (JPN) 6-2, 6-1.

Contesting his second successive US Open junior championships, Harris had earlier bowed out to top seed Taucher 6-0, 7-6(5), in the boys’ singles semis. He said:

“It’s always a  privilege to play out here. Our opponents played  well, but me and Maxi found the right level to get through it. We’re really good friends off the court, which really helps on the court, we communicate well and we have fun when we play. This is my last junior tournament, so hopefully I can end it on a high.”

Elsewhere, Greg Slade lost out in both the quad singles quarter-finals and the quad doubles semis, with world No.1 Niels Vink of the Netherlands on the opposite side of the net on both occasions.

Lucy Shuker and her Dutch partner Jiske Grifioen also lost out in the women’s doubles semis, beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Chinese second seeds Li Xiaohui and Wang Ziying.

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