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Alfie Hewett And Gordon Reid Win Men’s Tennis Doubles Semi-Final

Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid. Photo credit: ParalympicsGB/Sam Mellish

Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid beat France’s Frederic Cattaneo and Stephane Houdet 6-4, 6-3 in the men’s doubles semi-final. They play Japan’s Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in the final on Friday at 13:30 (CET).

Both Hewett and Reid also played men’s singles matches earlier in the day. Hewett is through to the semi-finals after beating Netherlands’ Ruben Spaargaren 6-1, 6-4.

Reid lost his quarter-final 0-6, 6-7 against Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez.

It was electric in there, we're used to the crowd being for us but I just loved it and thrived.
It was just a feeling of relief against him (Houdet), you do carry a bit of trauma when you've lost two Paralympic finals against the same player.

Alfie Hewett, commenting on the atmosphere

I don't feel the pressure of our record, we take confidence from it. We're used to these courts, used to these conditions and we've had great results here.

Gordon Reid (on coping with expectations)

I didn't feel great after my singles, I don't think I'd really processed it well enough before going on court and I was a bit slow. Alfie helped me through and supported me and sticking together as a team is a thing we do well.

Gordon Reid (on bouncing back from singles defeat)