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Britain’s Alfie Hewett lost a dramatic Wimbledon men’s wheelchair singles final in a final set tie-break against Japanese top seed Shingo Kunieda.
Contesting his first singles final at SW19, Hewett, 24, served for the championship four times.
But Kunieda won seven successive points from 5-3 down in the tie-break to complete a remarkable Golden Slam with a 4-6 7-5 7-6 (10-5) victory.
“I’m obviously gutted. That is going to sting for a while,” said Hewett.
“It has been incredible this week to get wheelchair tennis on Court One and to get the amount of spectators that were there. There have been some incredible matches. I will reflect on this with a lot of positives and I’m just ready for a break.”
It is a first Wimbledon title for world number one Kunieda, who has won 11 singles titles at the Australian Open in addition to eight victories at the French Open and eight at the US Open.
The reigning Paralympic champion now holds all four major men’s wheelchair singles titles.
Kunieda, 38, said it was “a dream came true right now”, adding: “Thank you to Alfie for a great battle. You have more years [ahead of you] than me so you can get this title in the future.”
Hewett unable to take chances
Hewett, a three-time French Open and twice US Open singles champion, was bidding to become the second British player to win the Wimbledon title after doubles partner Gordon Reid’s triumph in 2016.
This year’s singles final came after Hewett and Reid’s remarkable run of 10 consecutive Grand Slam wheelchair doubles titles was ended by Kunieda and his Argentine partner Gustavo Fernandez in a straight-set defeat on Saturday.
And that followed an exhausting effort on Friday to come through both his singles and doubles semi-final matches, with almost six hours on court.
In the opening set on Sunday, Hewett and Kunieda exchanged several breaks, but the Briton continued to apply pressure and saved two break points to serve out the set.
Once again making a positive start in set two – a forehand winner seizing a second break point – Hewett served for the title when leading 5-4.
But he could not distance Kunieda, who protected his title hopes with a break back for 5-5 before…
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