Alfie Hewett guaranteed one medal and closing on another at Rio Paralympics

Playing alongside Gordon Reid, the man he won the Wimbledon doubles title with this summer, Hewett has qualified for the gold-medal match.

The duo beat Japan's Shingo Kunieda and Satoshi Saida 6-2 6-4 in the semi-finals last night in Rio, to reach Thursday's final.

They became the first Brits to reach a Paralympic men's doubles final when they defeated Japan's 2004 Athens Paralympic champions but will now play French top seeds Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer of France, in a rematch of the Wimbledon final.

Hwett, 18, also qualified for the singles semi-final earlier in the day. He went into the Games ranked 15th in the world in singles but is brushing aside some of the biggest names in wheelchair tennis.

Hewett beat world number four Peifer 7-6 4-6 6-3 in the third round to set up a quarter-final clash with Sweden's Stefan Olsson.

The former Acle High School pupil continued his good form, beating Olsson 6-1 2-6 6-3 to seal a place in the semi-finals.

He will face world number two Joachim Gerard – who beat him 6-0 6-4 in the singles quarter-finals at Wimbledon this year – today knowing that victory will seal at least a silver medal.

'I feel a lot calmer about winning today than I did yesterday as I think I got a lot of the emotion out yesterday and today I had pressure on myself as I'd already gone beyond where I thought I would,' Hewett said.

With Hewett and Reid in different semi-finals, there is still the possibility of an all-British gold medal or bronze medal match after world number three Reid won his quarter-final against Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-1.

It was also a good day for Norwich's Amy Conroy who was part of the Great Britain women's wheelchair basketball team who beat China 57-38 to reach the semi-finals of the competition.