Hewett & Reid win fifth French Open doubles title

Britain's Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid person won nan men's wheelchair doubles last astatine nan French Open for a 5th successive year.

The apical seeds gained an awesome 6-1 6-4 triumph complete second-seeded Japanese duo Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda connected tribunal 14 astatine Roland Garros.

Hewett, 26, and Reid, 32, had to conflict backmost from a group down to triumph 3-6 6-2 10-8 against Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez and Frenchman Stephane Houdet successful their semi-final.

But nan Brits took early power successful nan last pinch a break of service successful nan opening game, followed by further breaks successful nan 5th and seventh games to triumph nan first group successful only 26 minutes.

They collapsed again successful nan sixth crippled of nan 2nd set, only for Miki and Oda to instantly break back, but gained nan decisive break 3 games later.

Englishman Hewett and Scot Reid besides won this arena together successful 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and this latest occurrence meant they person won 20 Grand Slam doubles titles - 5 each astatine nan US Open, Wimbledon, Australian Open and French Open.

The Brits will beryllium backmost successful Paris successful a fewer months erstwhile they squad up successful nan Paralympics successful September.

"It was a really enjoyable lucifer and hopefully successful a fewer months we tin nutrient akin tennis," said Hewett. "We've had tons of battles and they hit america past time, and I'm judge we will person galore much finals successful nan future."

Elsewhere connected Saturday, Britain's Andy Lapthorne and Guy Sasson of Israel will play successful nan men's quad wheelchair doubles last erstwhile they look nan top-seeded Dutch pairing of Sam Schroder and Niels Vink.