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Alfie Hewett mislaid the past 2 Australian Open finals earlier winning successful 2023| Venue: Melbourne Park Dates:16-29 January |
| Coverage: Commentary each time from 07:00 GMT connected BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' unrecorded from Melbourne, with selected unrecorded substance commentaries and lucifer reports connected the BBC Sport website & app |
An affectional Alfie Hewett claimed his archetypal Australian Open men's wheelchair singles rubric with triumph implicit Japan's Tokita Oda.
Runner-up successful the past 2 years, Britain's Hewett dominated Oda 6-3 6-1 to adhd the idiosyncratic prize to the 4th doubles title helium won alongside Gordon Reid connected Friday.
It is Hewett's seventh Grand Slam singles title.
He present lone needs triumph astatine Wimbledon to implicit the vocation Grand Slam.
Hewett is besides a 16-time large doubles champion and completed the calendar Slam with Reid successful 2021.
In the women's wheelchair singles, Dutch satellite fig 1 Diede de Groot recovered from a hard archetypal acceptable to triumph her 5th successive Australian Open title.
She bushed Yui Kamiji 0-6 6-2 6-2 successful 1 hr and 48 minutes.
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