British pair Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid misplaced out on a championship tie-break in opposition to Gustavo Fernandez and Tokito Oda within the US Open males’s wheelchair doubles closing.
Argentina’s Fernandez and Oda of Japan received 6-1 2-6 (10-6) to say their first silverware on the US Open.
Hewett and Reid, who’ve received 5 doubles titles at Flushing Meadows, had been in search of an twenty fourth Grand Slam trophy collectively.
Englishman Hewett earlier misplaced 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 7-5 to Fernandez within the semi-finals of the wheelchair singles competitors.
Wheelchair tennis is again in New York this 12 months after organisers dropped it in 2024 resulting from a scheduling battle with the Paralympics.
Fernandez and Oda raced by way of the opening set, successful 5 successive video games to put down an early marker.
However Englishman Hewett and Scotland’s Reid responded extremely nicely with a few breaks within the second to power a deciding 10-point tie-break for the title.
The highest seeds had been unable to construct additional on that fightback and a Hewett forehand into the web handed victory to Fernandez and Oda.
