HELENSBURGH'’S Gordon Reid led Great Britain'’s men'’s wheelchair tennis team to a historic first World Group title on Sunday at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Antalya, Turkey, HELENSBURGH'’S Gordon Reid led Great Britain'’s men'’s wheelchair tennis team to a historic first World Group title on Sunday at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Antalya, Turkey, Alfie Hewett came through in straight sets for the Brits against France before Reid did the same to give their side an unassailable lead in the final.

Great Britain ends the International Tennis Federation’s flagship wheelchair tennis team event, the sport’s version of the Davis and Fed Cups, with two medals after the GB women'’s team won bronze on Friday with a 2-0 win over Germany.

Seventeen-year-old Alfie Hewett, who has made his Great Britain senior debut this week, produced a tremendous performance in the opening singles rubber to beat world number 11 Michael Jeremiasz 7-5, 6-1 for his first career victory over the former world number one.

British number one and world number three Gordon Reid then swapped the lead several times with world number six Nicolas Peifer in the first set of the second singles rubber. But he took command of the tie-break and claimed a 7-6(5), 6-2 victory to win Britain'’s first gold medal in the World Group in 30 years of World Team Cup participation.

Last year Reid, Marc McCarroll and David Phillipson, three-quarters of this year’s team, won GB'’s first men'’s bronze medal since 1989, again captained by Karen Ross.

Reid said: "“It feels amazing going into Roland Garros knowing we are World Team Cup champions. It has not sunk in yet. Thanks to Karen and all the team who have helped support us this week. It feels great and I think we deserved to win it.” Meanwhile at the French Open this week <span class="yiv6959597909">Reid reached the fifth men’s doubles Grand Slam final of his career on Wednesday’s opening day after extending his unbeaten record with partner Shingo Kunieda of Japan.</span> <div id="yiv6959597909yui_3_16_0_1_1433317053058_885569" class="yiv6959597909"><span class="yiv6959597909">Earlier in the day Reid saw his singles campaign come to an end against 2011 Roland Garros champion Maikel Scheffers.</span>