Cajun Classic 2024: Results & Updates
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Get the latest results and updates from the British players competing at the 2024 Cajun Classic.
Highlights
- Alfie Hewett beat world No.1 Tokito Oda 6-4, 6-4 to win singles title
- Alfie Hewett & Gordon Reid clinch men's doubles title against Takuya Miki & Tokito Oda
- Andy Lapthorne & David Wagner crowned quad doubles trophy with 6-2, 6-3 win over Guy Sasson & Ymanitu Silva
- Lucy Shuker, Cornelia Oosthuizen & Martha Harris bow out in quarter-finals
- Greg Slade and Hunter Groce exit in quad doubles quarter-finals
- Eight Brits set for main draw action at the Cajun Classic
- Draws & results
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Day six: Hewett clinches fourth singles title at Cajun Classic
Alfie Hewett clinched his second victory over world No.1 Tokito Oda of Japan in successive weekends as he wrapped up his fourth Cajun Classic men’s singles title 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday in Baton Rouge.
World No.2 Hewett earned the only service hold of the first set in the very last game of the set and then made it six games in a row as he raced into a 4-0 second set lead. However, that’s where Hewett’s progress was temporarily halted as 2023 champion Oda reeled off the next four games to raise prospects of a deciding set.
But Hewett, who also beat Oda a week ago in the Georgia Open final, was having none of it, and forehand and backhand down the line winners on successive points fired him back into a 5-4 lead as he broke Oda to love and three errors off the Japanese racket subsequently set Hewett up with two match points.
The second seed needed no further opportunities, completing victory with a sweetly struck cross court backhand winner to add to his 2017, 2018 and 2022 titles in Baton Rouge.
After dethroning Oda to become a nine-time Super Series singles champion, Hewett will now eat into the 476 point advantage that the Japanese player had at the top of the world rankings at the start of the Cajun Classic.
Rcent results
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid retained their Cajun Classic men’s doubles title as Andy Lapthorne and David Wagner earned their second quad doubles title in three years on the penultimate day of play in Baton Rouge, with Hewett also securing his place in the men’s singles final on a victorious day for the Brits.
Hewett and Reid produced a dominant performance in the men’s doubles final, winning 11 points in a row and 12 of the first 13 points before establishing a 4-0 lead over Japanese second seeds Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda for the loss of just three points.
Despite then dropping serve twice, Hewett and Reid closed out the opening set in 37 minutes and then powered to a 5-0 second set lead on their way to a 6-2, 6-2 victory and their third doubles title together and second Super Series title this season.
Lapthorne and Wagner beat Israel’s Guy Sasson and Brazil’s Ymanitu Silva 6-2, 6-3 after another dominant performance in the quad doubles final, Lapthorne serving out the opening set as the Anglo-American duo won six of the last seven games.
The second seeds and reigning Australian Open champions held firm to take a marathon third game in the second set and established a two-game cushion for 3-1 before wrapping up their fourth Super Series title as a partnership after an hour and 31 minutes.
All four of their Super Series titles together have come in the USA after winning back-to-back US Open USTA Wheelchair Championships titles in St. Louis in 2017 and 2018.
For the second week in a row Hewett will play world No.1 Oda in Sunday’s men’s singles final after beating Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 in the semi-finals.
Last weekend’s Georgia Open champion built a comfortable 5-2 lead before serving out the opening set at the second time of asking and another 5-2 lead in the second set soon became a convincing straight sets victory after an hour and 34 minutes. Hewett now attempts to win his fourth Cajun Classic men’s singles title since 2017.
Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne will all contest Cajun Classic doubles finals over the weekend after two wins from three semi-finals for Brits on the fourth day of play in Baton Rouge.
Top seeds Hewett and Reid ended the unbeaten nine match and three tournament winning streak of Belgium’s Joachim Gerard and Spain’s Martin de la Puente 6-4, 6-3 to reach their third men’s doubles final and second Super Series final of 2024.
The reigning Australian Open champions saw a 4-2 lead midway through the opening set disappear, but they ended the set in fine form as Reid served out to love.
A break of serve to start the second set helped propel the 19-time Grand Slam champions into a 3-1 lead as they completed victory with another service break to love to earn a place in the final. They will now face Japanese duo Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda, in a repeat of last year's Wimbledon final which saw the British pair prevail.
Lapthorne and his American doubles partner David Wagner will attempt to reclaim the quad doubles title they won in Baton Rouge in 2022 after beating Australian, Canadian pair Heath Davidson and Robert Shaw 4-6, 6-3, (10-6).
Reigning Australian Open champions Lapthorne and Wagner came from a set and 2-1 down to force the deciding match tie-break. Despite trailing 3-0 down in the decider, they turned it around to defeat Davidson and Shaw - the partnership they also beat in the 2022 Cajun Classic final.
Lucy Shuker and Cornelia Oosthuizen, contesting their first Super Series women’s doubles semi-final together, were unable to make it a hat-trick of finals for British players after losing their semi-final to top seeds and reigning Doubles Masters champions 6-1, 6-3.
Alfie Hewett remains the last British player in contention for a singles title after a busy third day in Baton Rouge during which saw Hewett and Gordon Reid also book their place in the men’s doubles semi-finals. Meanwhile Cornelia Oosthuizen and Lucy Shuker advanced to the women’s doubles semi-final and Andy Lapthorne and David Wagner kept their bid to regain the Cajun Classic quad doubles title on track.
Hewett was one of a select band of players who won three matches during the day, following up his 6-3, 6-1 win over the USA’s Casey Ratzlaff by twice coming from 5-4 down to beat Japan’s Takashi Sanada 7-6(1), 7-5 in the quarter-finals. Hewett faces third seed Gustavo Fernandez next.
Reid pushed world No.1 Tokito Oda close for the second time this season in his second singles match of the day against a Japanese player, having earlier beaten Daisuke Arai 6-2, 6-2, but Reid’s singles title hopes eventually ended 7-5, 6-7(2), 6-3 against Oda.
Hewett and Reid ended their long day with a 6-2, 6-1 quarter-final win over French duo Geoffrey Jasiak and Olivier Langlois. The top seeds and defending champions now play third seeds Martin de la Puente and Joachim Gerard on Friday for a place in this year’s final.
Lapthorne threatened to upset world No.2 Sam Schroder in their quad singles semi-final after taking the opening set of their match-up, but Britain’s former champion was unable to maintain his challenge as Schroder moved on to the semi-finals 6-7(3),6-3, 6-1.
However, there was better news for Lapthorne in the quad doubles. With a Brit guaranteed a place in the semi-finals, second seeds Lapthorne and Wagner beat Greg Slade and Hunter Groce 6-4, 7-5 and will now play third seeds Heath Davidson and Robert Shaw, the same duo they beat in this year’s Australian Open semis.
Oosthuizen and Shuker are into their first Super Series doubles final as a partnership after being awarded a walkover ahead of their quarter-final against Dutch duo Lizzy de Greef and Aniek van Koot. Up next the British duo play top seeds Yui Kamiji and Kgothatso Montjane.
It was a tough day for the Brits in the women’s singles as Shuker bowed out to eight seed Angelica Bernal 6-3, 6-1, Oosthuizen lost out to Dutch fifth seed Van Koot 6-3, 6-4 and Martha Harris' Super Series challenge ended 6-0, 6-0 against seventh seed Dana Mathewson.
Former champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid progressed through two of four matches for British players on a rain-delayed first day of competition in Baton Rouge.
Reid, the 2014 Cajun Classic men’s singles champion, booked his place in this year’s second round after a 6-2, 6-0 victory over the USA’s Conner Stroud, while 2017, 2018 and 2022 champion Hewett also progressed to the last 16 in straight sets, beating Israel’s Adam Berdichevsky 6-1, 6-4.
Reid will play Japan’s Daisuke Arai for a place in the quarter-finals, while Hewett will go up against American Casey Ratzlaff.
While the rain delay meant that Lucy Shuker, Cornelia Oosthuizen and Martha Harris’s opening women’s singles matches have been pushed back to Wednesday’s second day of action, Andrew Penney and Greg Slade saw their men’s and quad singles title challenges to come to an early end. Penney lost out to Frenchman Geoffrey Jasiak 6-1, 6-4, while Slade was edged out 6-3, 6-4 by Chile’s Diego Perez.
Shuker will now play American qualifier Sabina Czauz in Wednesday’s women’s singles first round matches, while Oosthuizen will place Canada’s Anne-Marie Dollinar and Harris also faces Canadian opposition in the form of Natalia Lanucha.
Last week’s Georgia Open finalist and 2012 Cajun Classic champion Andy Lapthorne also begins his quad singles title challenge against Japan’s Shora Kawano, while Penney and Slade are both due to be in doubles action.
