Wimbledon 2026: Alfie Hewett & Gordon Reid reach 10th successive men's wheelchair doubles final
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Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid booked their place in their 10th successive men’s doubles final at The Championships, Wimbledon on the third day of wheelchair tennis action at the All England Club, with Hewett earning his place in his seventh men’s singles semi-final.
World No.2 Hewett met China’s Ji Zhenxu twice in a day, withstanding a late comeback from the world No.9 in the first set of their second successive Wimbledon singles quarter-final to prevail 6-4, 6-1 on No.3 Court and set up a semi-final against Argentina’s world No.4 Gustavo Fernandez.
Hewett, who also beat Ji 6-4, 6-1 on his way to his sixth French Open final last month, said: “Ji’s got a lot of weapons on all sides, really, He’s got a strong forehand, backhand and serve that comes through pretty quick, so he’s very good on the grass and if he gets a bit of momentum and a bit of confidence it can be extremely difficult to break. I rode my luck a bit at 5-4 (in the first set), but the second set I just served a bit better and tried to keep the ball out of the slot a little bit more.
“The Slam weeks are always special, but anything can happen in a Slam week, so as much as I take confidence from these performances and results it’s never a given and I’m just happy to get through today’s match.”
On the 10th Anniversary of the first of their six Wimbledon doubles titles, Hewett and Reid later enjoyed their first experience of 2026 on No.1 Court, thrilling an enthusiastic crowd with a 6-4, 6-3 doubles semi-final victory over Stephane Houdet of France and Ji to move to within one win of a 25th Grand Slam title as a partnership.
Hewett and Reid will play reigning Australian Open and US Open champions Gustavo Fernandez and Tokito Oda in Saturday’s final after the Argentinian-Japanese duo ended the title defence of Martin de la Puente and Ruben Spaargaren.
Elsewhere, Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade, the Paris 2024 Paralympic quad doubles silver medallists, were unable to reproduce the kind of performance that saw them beat second seeds
Sam Schroder and Jin Woodman in the last four of last week’s Lexus British Open Roehampton. Facing the same opponents, Lapthorne and Slade bowed out of their first Wimbledon doubles challenge together 6-4, 6-1.
A memorable Grand Slam debut for Andrew Penney also came to an end, with the British No.3 losing out 6-0, 6-1 to 2024 men’s singles finalist De la Puente, having made a winning Grand Slam debut on Tuesday when he beat Dutch player Maarten Ter Hofte in straight sets.
Meanwhile, British No.1 and five-time women's doubles finalist Lucy Shuker saw her quest to reach another final come to an end. Shuker and South Africa’s Kgothatso Montjane, the 2021 finalists together, bowed out in this year’s semi-finals to top seeds and reigning French Open Champions Yui Kamiji of Japan and Zhu Zhenzhen of China.
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