HELENSBURGH’S Gordon Reid saw his hopes of Roland Garros glory endcd at the semi-final stage of the men’s singles and doubles.

World number five Reid began the second day’s play in Paris bidding to reach the men’s singles final for the second time in three years, but the 2016 runner-up was unable to find his best form against six-time champion Shingo Kunieda of Japan, and the world number three put in a clinical performance to advance to Saturday’s final with a 6-2, 6-0 victory.

Reid had reached the last four of the singles after an enthralling 6-4, 6-4 win over his British rival, and doubles partner, Alfie Hewett in the quarter-finals.

With one break of serve and one hold of serve apiece Reid and Hewett were locked together after 15 minutes of play and they continued to exchange games until the very end of the opening set.

A second break earned 2016 Australian Open and Wimbledon champion Reid the set after 49 minutes, with the Rio Paralympic champion having earned just two points more than Hewett over the course of the ten games.

Reid struck first in the second set to take a 4-2 lead , but as he served for the set at 5-3 Hewett saved three match points, the second with a backhand winner and the third with a well-placed forehand winner before the defending champion pulled a game back.

However, Reid earned three more successive match points on Hewett’s serve in the next game and floated a backhand over the net that Hewett failed to reach to wrap up victory after an hour and 30 minutes.

The British pair were back on the same side of the net for the semi-finals of the men’s doubles, but the second seeds’ hopes of reaching a second successive Roland Garros doubles final were to end in disappointment.

The Rio gold medallists were unable to capitalise on a 3-1 first set lead against Frederic Cattaneo of France and Sweden’s Stefan Olsson.

Despite coming back from 5-2 down in the second set, Hewett and Reid were again unable to win the big points as the match neared its conclusion, and Cattaneo and Olsson won 6-4, 6-4 – though the pair lost in the final to Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer, who won 6-1, 7-6 (7-5).

Reid’s Roland Garros disappointment followed his defeat in the World Team Cup final in the Netherlands, in which he lost to Takashi Sanada 6-3, 3-6, 5-7.