​Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett reached his fifth consecutive wheelchair singles final at Wimbledon after coming from a set down to defeat Gustavo Fernandez. The second seed was edged in a tight first-set tie-break but rallied to claim a 6-7 (2-7) 6-0 6-3 victory over the Argentine. “It was a rollercoaster of a match. I seem to always have these sorts of matches in the semi-final against Gustavo,” Hewett said. “It’s these kinds of matches that I believe put wheelchair tennis on the map a lot more.” A 10-time Grand Slam singles champion, Hewett admitted that when he fell a set behind on Court One, he considered pulling away and trying to reset. “I took myself away after the first set and just tried to focus on the next set and forget what happened, because I don’t think I played my best tennis,” he added. “I was a bit too tense and the emotion got the better of me.”
Hewett will now face Japan’s Tokito Oda, who defeated him in last year’s Wimbledon final and has captured the last five Grand Slam singles titles. “He’s obviously flying at the moment, won all the Grand Slams this year and he’s world number one for a reason,” Hewett said. In the doubles, Hewett and team-mate Gordon Reid, the six-time Wimbledon doubles champions, will meet Oda and Fernandez in the doubles showpiece on Saturday. The British pair missed out on a third successive doubles title last year when they were upset by Spain’s Martin de la Puente and Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands.
In the quad wheelchair singles semi-finals, Britain’s Andy Lapthorne was defeated 6-1 6-1 by second seed Sam Schroder, who will face fellow Dutchman and top seed Niels Vink in the final. The day’s action also saw other notable moments, including a superb display from Sinner and a historic bid from Djokovic that fell just short, alongside Fery’s Wimbledon run and Cruz Hewitt’s progression to the Wimbledon junior final. For tennis fans, live scores, results, and order of play were continually updated, while news alerts were sent directly to phones to keep readers informed as the Championships progressed.