Wimbledon 2025: Greg Slade, Alfie Hewett & Gordon Reid through to wheelchair doubles finals
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Britain’s Greg Slade booked his place in his first Grand Slam final in the quad doubles event at The Championships, Wimbledon, with fellow Brits and defending champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid earning their return to the men’s wheelchair doubles final, and Hewett also progressing to the men’s singles semi-finals.
Slade and South Africa’s Donald Ramphadi upset second seeds Ahmet Kaplan of Turkey and Sam Schroder of the Netherlands 7-6(5),1-6, 7-5 in their quad doubles semi-final to complete a special 24 hours for Slade, who won his first Grand Slam singles match on Wednesday and now plays Schroder in Friday’s singles semi-finals.
Reflecting on his latest win, Slade said: “I think what made or broke that match for us was just in that third set… just committing to the shots, not necessarily trying to smack winners the whole time; this is doubles you’re not going to do that. But just committing to the ball, which actually creates more pressure. (I’m) delighted to have come through it and I’m so happy with our performance as a team.”
Slade and Ramphadi will now play last week’s Lexus British Open Roehampton champions Guy Sasson of Israel and Niels Vink of the Netherlands in the final after the top seeds defeated British No.1 Andy Lapthorne and Francisco Cayulef of Chile 6-1, 6-2.
Hewett and Reid delighted an enthusiastic No.1 court crowd as they made a strong finish to win their men’s doubles semi-final against Spain’s Daniel Caverzaschi and Tokito Oda of Japan 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 in two hours ad one minute.
They will now play Martin de la Puente of Spain and Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands on Saturday in their quest for a seventh Wimbledon doubles title since 2016.
Hewett returns to No.1 Court on Friday to play De la Puente, the player he beat on the same show court in last year’s men’s singles final to complete his career Grand Slam, after defeating China’s Zhenzu Ji 6-1, 6-1 in his quarter-final.
Meanwhile, 2016 champion Reid’s hopes of joining Hewett in the singles semi-finals came to an end in a 6-2, 6-3 loss to Argentina’s 2019 champion Gustavo Fernandez.
Elsewhere, British No.2 Lucy Shuker and Diede de Groot of the Netherlands lost out in their women’s doubles semi-final. Shuker, a five-time Wimbledon doubles finalist, and De Groot, lost 6-3, 6-4 to Colombia’s Angelica Bernal and Ksenia Chasteau of France.
