Peter Norfolk bids for another major title on Sunday when he faces American world No 1 David Wagner in the quad singles final at the BNP Paribas French Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Antony, Paris before partnering fellow Briton Andrew Lapthorne in the quad doubles final.
Second seed Norfolk recorded a 6-2, 6-2 victory over his Beijing Paralympic Games quad doubles bronze medal-winning partner Jamie Burdekin in Friday's quarter-finals, as Wagner knocked out the third British quarter-finalist, John Parfitt, 6-2, 6-0.
Norfolk then came from a set down against Israeli third seed Noam Gershony in Saturday's semi-finals to prevail 4-6, 7-5, 7-5. The world No 2, already the winner of 19 quad singles titles at either Super Series or Grand Slam events, aims to add his 20th major title on Sunday as the third ITF Super Series event of 2011 comes to an end.
A British pairing was guaranteed to have a place in Sunday's quad doubles final as top seeds Lapthorne and Norfolk took on fourth seeds Burdekin and Parfitt in Saturday's semi-finals and a closely fought contest ended with Australian Open champions Lapthorne and Norfolk earning a 6-4, 6-3 victory. The result earns the Britons a title deciding contest against American second seeds Bryan Barten and Wagner.
The penultimate day of competition in Antony also saw British No 2 David Phillipson gain victory in the men's main draw consolation singles. Phillipson edged an all-British semi-final on Friday against Marc McCarroll 7-6(4), 6-4, but had more in hand in the final as he eased past Japan's Takashi Sanada 6-2, 6-1.
Phillipson and McCarroll lost out to world top 10 ranked opposition ealrier in the week in the first round of the main draw, while British No 1 Gordon Reid gained the biggest victory of his career as he defeated Dutch world No 6 Ronald Vink.
After a second round walkover, Reid looked like he might gain a career best performance for the second time in three days in Friday's quarter-finals. However, after playing arguably the best set of tennis of his career, Reid eventually succumbed to French world No 3 Stephane Houdet 6-2, 0-6, 1-6.
British interest in the women's main draw events also came to an end on Friday, with British No 1 and world No 8 Lucy Shuker slipping to a narrow 6-7(2), 4-6 loss to Dutch third seed Marjolein Buis, who has gone on to reach Sunday's final.
Later in the day Shuker partnered fellow Briton Jordanne Whiley in the women's doubles semi-finals, but despite a fine attempt at trying to take Dutch second seeds Marjolein Buis and Sharon Walraven to three sets Shuker and Whiley eventually lost out 1-6, 5-7.
The British duo will hope for a better result next Friday when they face this week's French Open champions and another Dutch pairing, Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot, in their Wimbledon women's wheelchair tennis doubles semi-final.
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