
Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Dates: 29 August-11 September |
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Britain’s Alfie Hewett progressed to the lads’s wheelchair singles second spherical on the US Open, however compatriot Gordon Reid was compelled to retire injured after putting a microphone.
Reid retired after dropping the primary set to Spain’s Martin de la Puente having aggravated an present wrist harm.
Second seed Hewett beat Dutchman Maikel Scheffers 6-2 6-4.
Reid is because of crew up with Hewett within the doubles as they bid for a sixth successive title.
Hewett, 24, claimed his seventh win in his final 9 matches towards former world primary Scheffers because the Briton started his bid for a 3rd singles title in New York in spectacular style.
There was disappointment for Lucy Shuker within the ladies’s first spherical, nevertheless, as she misplaced 6-2 6-0 to world primary Diede de Groot of the Netherlands, who’s aiming to finish a second successive calendar Grand Slam.