Anders Hard and Andy Lapthorne by Tennis Victoria
20/01/12
Andy Lapthorne and Gordon Reid won the quad singles and the men's doubles titles as the Melbourne Open came to a successful end for the Brits.
World No. 4 Lapthorne made a victorious start to 2013 after a confident performance saw him beat world No. 5 Anders Hard of Sweden 6-1, 6-2 in their decisive round-robin match.
Meanwhile, Reid partnered Dutchman Maikel Scheffers to victory in the men's doubles as the British No. 1 clinched his second doubles title of the season. Top seeds Reid and Scheffers beat second seeds Eliphas Maripa of South Africa and Ben Weekes of Australia 6-2, 6-4 in the Melbourne final as Reid followed up his doubles victory at the Adelaide Open.
However, Reid narrowly missed out on adding to his Adelaide Open men's singles title after he lost the singles final to world No. 6 Michael Jeremiasz of France 6-3, 6-3.
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19/01/13
Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne will contest three finals between them on Sunday's last day of the Melbourne Open.
Reid but up a superb performance in his men's singles semi-final to defeat world No. 5 Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina, and reaching his second final of the season.
World No. 8 Reid beat second seed Fernandez 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-1 and will now play world No. 6 Michael Jeremiasz of France in Sunday's final after Jeremiasz beat Dutch top seed Maikel Scheffers in his semi-final.
Reid will also bid for his second doubles title of the season after he and Scheffers eased into the men's doubles final. The top seeds beat Henry de Cure and Jerry Markoja of Australia 6-0, 6-1 and will now play second seeds Eliphas Maripa of South Africa and Ben Weekes of Australia in the final.
Andy Lapthorne will bid for another title in the quad singles after winning the second of his three round robin matches comfortably. Lapthorne beat Harry Boniface Prabhu of India 6-2, 6-1 and now plays world No. 5 Anders Hard of Sweden, who is currently unbeaten after his first two matches.
18/01/13
Gordon Reid came through a tough quarter-final against Adam Kellerman, earning a 7-6, 6-3 victory as he beat the Australian for the second time in less than two weeks.
New world No. 8 Reid moves on to a semi-final against Argentinean world No. 5 Gustavo Fernandez.
Andy Lapthorne made a comfortable start to 2013 after winning his first quad singles match of the season against John Savinov 6-0, 6-0. Lapthorne faces India's Harry Boniface Prabhu on Saturday in the second of his three round-robin matches.
However, world No. 7 Lucy Shuker had a tough time against Dutch world No. 4 Jiske Griffioen, with Griffioen advancing to the semi-finals of the women's singles 6-2, 6-2.
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17/01/13
Gordon Reid made a confident start to his third and last tournament in Australia after beating Korea's Sam-Ju Kim 6-1, 6-3 in the first round of the men's singles.
After beating Kim for the second time this season Reid will face Adam Kellerman in the quarter-finals, coming up against the Australian also for the second time this season after Reid beat Kellerman in the final of the Adelaide Open, his first tournament of 2013.
Lucy Shuker had a bye into Friday's quarter-finals of the women's singles along with the seeded players and faces a tough opening match against recent Sydney International Open winner and world No. 4 Jiske Griffioen of the Netherlands.
After a wild card entry into the quad singles, world No. 4 Andy Lapthorne has three round-robin matches as he warms up for next week's Australian Open Grand Slam and plays John Savitov in the first of his matches on Friday's second day of play.
Reid and Maikel Scheffers of the Netherlands are top seeds for the men's doubles and have a bye through to the semi-finals later in the week.
16/01/13
Gordon Reid plays the last of his three tournaments in Australia and Lucy Shuker completes her preparations for next week's Australian Open Wheelchair Championships at this week's Melbourne Open.
Reid will bid to win his second ITF 2 Series singles and doubles titles of the season after starting 2013 by winning both events at the Adelaide Open. Meanwhile, he will also hope to build on his performance at the Sydney International, where he took world No. 1 Stephane Houdet of France to a final set tie-break. The British No. 1 will also hope to get back to winning ways with his Dutch doubles partner Maikel Scheffers after the duo reached the semi-finals in Sydney.
London 2012 quad doubles silver medallist Andy Lapthorne has gained a late wild card into the quad singles as he starts his 2013 season ahead of contesting the Australian Open.
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