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British pair Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid lost out on a championship tie-break against Gustavo Fernandez and Tokito Oda in the US Open men’s wheelchair doubles final.<\/b><\/p>\n
Argentina’s Fernandez and Oda of Japan won 6-1 2-6 (10-6) to claim their first silverware at the US Open.<\/p>\n
Hewett and Reid, who have won five doubles titles at Flushing Meadows, were seeking an 24th Grand Slam trophy together.<\/p>\n
Englishman Hewett earlier lost 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 7-5 to Fernandez in the semi-finals of the wheelchair singles competition.<\/p>\n
Wheelchair tennis is back in New York this year after organisers dropped it in 2024 due to a scheduling conflict with the Paralympics.<\/p>\n
Fernandez and Oda raced through the opening set, winning five successive games to lay down an early marker.<\/p>\n
But Englishman Hewett and Scotland’s Reid responded incredibly well with a couple of breaks in the second to force a deciding 10-point tie-break for the title.<\/p>\n
The top seeds were unable to build further on that fightback and a Hewett forehand into the net handed victory to Fernandez and Oda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n