Venue: Roland Garros, Paris Dates: 28 May-11 June |
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Doubles partners Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid will meet in an all-British men’s wheelchair singles quarter-final at the French Open after both players advanced on Tuesday.
World number one and three-time champion Hewett beat the Netherlands’ Tom Egberink 6-3 7-5.
Reid, a two-time runner-up at Roland Garros, won 6-1 6-1 against Dutchman Maikel Scheffers.
Fellow Briton Lucy Shuker lost 6-2 6-2 against American Dana Mathewson.
Hewett, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, was dominant in the opening set but found himself 5-2 down in the second after two breaks of serve by Egberink.
However, he won five games in a row to take the match and progress to the quarter-finals as he bids for a third consecutive major singles title.
His good friend Reid claimed the opening set against Scheffers in just 33 minutes before wrapping up the second in a similar fashion to reach an eighth successive quarter-final on the Paris clay.
The two will then pair up for their doubles match against France’s Frederic Cattaneo and American partner Casey Ratzlaff.
Shuker started brightly against her doubles partner Mathewson in their first-round encounter, establishing a quick 2-0 lead before the American rattled off six games in a row to win the set.
The players traded breaks in the second but Matthewson proved the stronger of the two to set up a quarter-final against third seed Ash Griffon of the Netherlands.