Gb's Hewett And Reid Speed Into Second Round

Great Britain's Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid dropped conscionable 1 crippled arsenic they breezed into nan 2nd information of nan men's wheelchair doubles astatine nan US Open.

The apical seeds needed only 51 minutes to complete a 6-0 6-1 triumph complete Americans Charlie Cooper and Conner Stroud.

The British duo deed 21 winners to Cooper and Stroud's four, while they won each of nan 19 points connected their first serve.

Long-term doubles partners Hewett and Reid are bidding for their 3rd Grand Slam title together this year, having won astatine nan Australian Open and Roland Garros.

Wheelchair tennis is making a return successful New York aft conflicting schedules pinch nan Paralympics meant nan arena was not held past year.

Elsewhere connected Tuesday, Britain's Lucy Shuker and Jiske Griffioen of nan Netherlands besides raced into nan 2nd information arsenic they moved past American Maylee Phelps and Japan's Saki Takamuro pinch a 6-2 6-0 win.

In nan men's quad doubles, Britain's Greg Slade and his Australian partner Jin Woodman clinched a constrictive 6-1 6-7 (6-8) 10-7 triumph complete Australian-Canadian duo Heath Davidson and Robert Shaw.

However, Andy Lapthorne was little fortunate arsenic nan Briton and American David Wagner, nan 2nd seeds, mislaid 6-3 5-7 10-12 to Chile's Francisco Cayulef and Argentina's Gonzalo Enrique Lazarte.