World Team Cup: Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid win fifth title for Great Britain

Great Britain grew to become World Team Cup champions for the fifth time as Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid joined forces to safe a 2-1 victory over Japan in Florida.

Japan had been the defending champions of the competitors, which is the wheelchair tennis equal to the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.

However, Hewett and Reid ensured Britain obtained their arms again on the trophy with a 6-1 6-2 win within the deciding doubles match towards Tokito Oda and Daisuke Arai.

“We’re actually joyful to get the title again,” stated Reid, who was additionally a part of the World Team Cup-winning squad alongside Hewett in 2015, 2019, 2023 and 2024.

Hewett added: “It’s the primary time it is come all the way down to the deciding doubles for us, so I’m simply actually joyful that we obtained over the road.

“It’s all the time a privilege to play on your nation and there is been an awesome ambiance and crew spirit once more this week between all of the lads.”

Reid obtained Britain off to a profitable begin on Saturday with a commanding 6-2 6-2 victory over international stage quantity 21 Arai, who he has now overwhelmed in all 5 encounters between the pair.

The begin of the second singles match was then delayed due to excessive warmth in Orlando, with Hewett and Oda returning to court docket six hours later when temperatures had cooled.

Just per week after beating the international stage primary within the singles last of the US Open, Hewett was unable to repeat his feat as he fell to a slender 6-4 7-5 loss.

“I’m a bit dissatisfied that it wasn’t a 100% day after my loss within the singles, but it surely was a very high-level match and simply got here down to some factors in each units that might have gone both method,” he stated.

However, Hewett bounced again within the doubles alongside Reid as Britain, who additionally had 21-year-old Ben Bartram within the crew and had been captained by Martyn Whait, backed up their wins towards South Korea and the Netherlands earlier this week.