Britain’s Alfie Hewett has won the Australian Open, while Ranah Stoiber is through to the girls’ semi-finals.
Hewett will try to make it a third chance at the men’s doubles in Melbourne after storming into the final with a 6-1 6-1 victory over Japan’s Takuya Miki.
Hewett, the top seed following the retirement of his arch-rival Shingo Kunieda, faces another Japanese player, third seed Tokito Oda, in the final as he bids for a seventh Grand Slam title.
Hewett will also try to win a fourth title in a row with Gordon Reid. The duo reached the final with a 6-4 6-4 win over Daisuke Arai and Takashi Sanada.
Ranah Stoiber is through to the girls semi-finals in Melbourne
Stoiber became the first British girl to reach the juniors semi-finals at the Australian Open for eight years.
The 17-year-old beat Pole Weronika Ewald 6-3 6-3 in the quarter-finals to better her run at the US Open last summer.
Katie Swan, who lost in the final in 2015, was the last British girl to make the last four at Melbourne Park while Aidan McHugh reached the boys’ semi-finals in 2018.
Stoiber was inspired by Emma Raducanu’s journey to the Grand Slam title
Stoiber is aiming to become the first British girl to win a junior Grand Slam title since Heather Watson at the US Open in 2009 and the first since Oliver Golding won the boys’ title in New York in 2011.
She will take on 15-year-old Mirra Andreeva of Russia, already ranked in the top 300 in the women’s singles, in the semi-finals.
Speaking about her inspiration, Stoiber already said: “Emma Raducanu has given great hope to British tennis players. She is so young that seeing what she has done inspires me to work hard every day to reach her level.”
