Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett is into his fifth successive wheelchair singles final at Wimbledon after he fought back from a set down to beat Gustavo Fernandez.
Hewett, the second seed, was edged out in a first-set tie-break but recovered well and stormed to a 6-7 (2-7) 6-0 6-3 victory against the Argentine.
“It was a rollercoaster of a match. I seem to always have these sorts of matches in the semi-final against Gustavo,” said 2024 champion Hewett.
“It’s these sort of matches that I believe puts wheelchair tennis on the map a lot more.”
Hewett, a 10-time Grand Slam singles champion, said he wanted to “leave this place” when he fell a set down on Court One.
“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 said.
“I was a it too tense and the emotion got the better of me.”
Hewett will face Japan’s Tokito Oda, who got the better of the Briton in last year’s Wimbledon final and has won the past 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.
Hewett and team-mate Gordon Reid, the six-time Wimbledon doubles champions, will come up against Oda and Fernandez in the doubles showpiece on Saturday.
The British pair missed out on a third successive doubles title last year when they fell to Spain’s Martin de la Puente and Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands.
In the quad wheelchair singles semis, Britain’s Andy Lapthorne was beaten 6-1 6-1 by second seed Sam Schroder, who will face fellow Dutchman – and number one seed – Niels Vink in the final.
