Alfie Hewett & Gordon Reid win titles at Paris Masters & Katie Swan secures biggest title
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Get the latest from the world of British tennis as wheelchair stars lift titles in the French capital, a Grand Slam champion reaches a Masters 1000 final, and one player wins the biggest title of her career.
Hewett & Reid crowned champions in Paris
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid both enjoyed title-winning runs at the WC500 Paris Masters last week.
Defending singles champion Hewett returned to the French capital with his ambitions of retaining the title in only the second year of the tournament.
Hewett eased through the quarter-finals against China’s Zhenxu Ji 6-1, 6-4, before coming through a three-set semi-final with Reid 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 to reach back-to-back finals.
The 28-year-old Brit went on to beat second seed Gustavo Fernandez in the final 6-2, 6-2, marking his 39th career win over the Argentinian and his seventh singles title of the year.
Despite a semi-final loss in the singles, Reid emerged from Paris as the doubles champion – teaming up with Fernandez instead of his usual partner Hewett, who didn’t compete in the draw this year.
Reid and Fernandez won a nail-biting final against Spain’s Martin De la Puente and Netherlands’ Tom Egberink 4-6, 6-2, 11-9 to add to their recent titles at the French Riviera Open and WC500 Open Paratennis du Loiret.
World No.1 Reid has now won 12 doubles titles so far this season – the biggest haul of his career so far.
Hewett and Reid will now head to Barcelona, alongside fellow Brits Ben Bartram, Lucy Shuker and Andy Lapthorne, to compete in the Wheelchair Tennis Finals this week.
Skupski finishes runner-up at Paris Masters
Staying in Paris, Britain’s Neal Skupski finished runner-up in the final ATP Masters 1000 event of the season.
Australian Open and US Open champions Skupski and Christian Harrison reached their third final of the season at the Rolex Paris Masters without dropping a set.
They defeated Austrian duo Neil Oberleitner and Lucas Miedler 6-4, 6-4 in the semi-final to set up a clash with home favourites Quentin Halys and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.
The French duo – who had beaten world No.1s Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara in the semis – went on to clinch the title with a 7-6(3), 6-7(4), 10-8 over the British, American team.
Skupski and Harrison, along with Patten and Heliovaara, will now turn their attention to the Nitto ATP Finals.
Swan wins career-best title in Incheon
Katie Swan won the biggest title of her career on Sunday – lifting the W100 Incheon in Korea, Rep.
The 27-year-old came through the opening three matches unscathed, before securing a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 victory against China’s Han Shi.
Her final match against Korean Yeonwoo Ku saw big momentum swings on both sides, but the British star found a way to come through. Swan sealed a 6-1, 0-6, 6-3 win to lift her fourth singles title of the season.
It’s the second time this year that she has bettered her career-best title by tournament level, after winning the W75 Kurume in May.
Swan has now won back-to-back titles in consecutive weeks and is now ranked just outside the WTA top-200 (No.205).
