Brits land hat-trick as Draper eyes boys’ prize

BRITS Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett made it three successive Wimbledon wins by beating Belgium’s Joachim Gerard and Sweden’s Stefan Olsson in the wheelchair doubles final.

The second seeds cruised to a 6-1 6-4 victory to chalk up an eighth Grand Slam doubles title for Reid, 26 (pictured, left) and a fourth for Hewett, 20 (right).

Reid said: “We’ve been playing together about four years now — we keep getting better. We’ve got a strong bond on court and we make ourselves very hard to beat.”

Asked how this win compared to their previous two, Hewett said: “They’re all pretty special. It’s tougher each year. People kind of expect you just to win it.”

Jack Draper could today become the first Brit to win the boys’ title since Stanley Matthews Jnr, son of the football legend, in 1962.

Draper, who faces No.1 seed Chun Hsin Tseng, said: “As a young Brit you dream of being on those courts. It’s going to be very exciting.”