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British wheelchair tennis players will contest three French Open finals on Saturday at Roland Garros after a highly successful penultimate day of action in Paris saw Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid reach their fourth successive men's doubles final in Paris.
Meanwhile, Andy Lapthorne partnered South Africa’s Donald Ramphadi to a stunning 6-4 4-6 (10-6) victory over Dutch top seeds Sam Schroder and Niels Vink in the quad doubles semi-finals.
The British No 1 will now bid for his second French Open doubles title in three years.
With Hewett already into Saturday's men’s singles final against Japan’s world No 2 Tokito Oda, it was Oda on the opposite side of the net to Hewett and Reid in their doubles semi-final as the Japanese 17-year-old and Belgium’s Joachim Gerard tried to prevent Hewett and Reid from reaching a 15th successive Grand Slam final.
However, after breaking Gerard’s serve in the fifth game of the match Hewett and Reid were rarely in trouble and eventually wrapped up a 6-2 6-2 victory in an hour and eight minutes.
Reid, who will now bid for his sixth French Open doubles title and his 17th Grand Slam doubles title partnering Hewett, said: "It feels great. I think collectively we can agree that that was one of the best performances we've had for a while. I think the intensity and the focus that we had throughout the entire match against two really dangerous players was really top drawer and it's really set us up nicely for the final."