Tokyo Paralympics: Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett attain semi-finals as GB win two extra bronzes

Tokyo Paralympics: Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett attain semi-finals as GB win two extra bronzes

Reid had gained his final 4 conferences towards FernandezVenue: Tokyo, Japan Dates: 24 August-5 September Time in Tokyo: BST +8Protection: Observe on Radio 5 Dwell and on the BBC Sport web site

Defending champion Gordon Reid reached the boys’s singles semi-final on the Tokyo Paralympics with a three-set victory over Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez.

The British fifth seed got here by means of 7-5 3-6 6-1 towards the world quantity 4 in two and a half hours.

Fellow Briton Alfie Hewett, who gained silver in Rio, can also be into the final 4 after beating France’s Nicolas Peifer 6-3 6-3.

Reid will face world primary and residential favorite Shingo Kunieda for a spot within the closing with second seed Hewett up towards both Tom Egberink of the Netherlands or Spain’s Daniel Caverzaschi.

Wednesday’s outcomes imply Britain are assured a medal within the males’s singles as a result of, if Reid and Hewett misplaced their semi-finals, they’d play one another within the bronze medal play-off.

Earlier, archer Victoria Rumary gained bronze for GB within the girls’s W1 occasion whereas there was additionally desk tennis bronze for the category 8 group of Ross Wilson, Aaron McKibbin and Billy Shilton after they misplaced to China within the semi-finals.

Boccia participant David Smith bids to retain his BC1 particular person title from 08:50 BST towards Malaysia’s Chew Wei Lun.

The GB males’s wheelchair basketball group face Canada within the quarter-finals at 10:15 as they bid so as to add Paralympic gold to their European and world titles.

Swimmer Becky Redfern, who gave beginning to son Patrick in July 2020, certified second-fastest for the ultimate of the SB13 100m breaststroke (11:09).

Athlete Sammi Kinghorn bids for a medal within the T53 100m, an occasion by which she was world champion in 2017 (12:37).

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