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Britain's Alfie Hewett defeated Tokito Oda 6-3 6-1 to lift his maiden Australian Open men's wheelchair singles title on Saturday.
World No 1 Hewett, a runner-up at Melbourne Park in 2021 and 2022, won his seventh Grand Slam singles title.
The success made it a golden two days for the Norfolk player, who also won the doubles title with British team-mate Gordon Reid on Friday.
Hewett was 3-1 down in the first set but won five games in a row to clinch it and then repeated the sequence in the second set, sealing the victory with an ace before sobbing with delight.
"It's been a dream this time around," Hewitt told Sky Sports News. "To finish the week with a first singles, a doubles title with Gordon and world number one ranking, it doesn't get much better than that.
"There's been a lot of heartbreak in Australia the last couple of years. Today was another opportunity to turn that around and maybe I was a little tight at the beginning but I managed to turn that around.
"I played well to manage the match and once I won that first set I relaxed a lot more and played my best tennis."