Gordon Reid saved two match points on Saturday afternoon to beat Belgium’s Joachim Gerard 3-6, 6-1, 13-11 and book his place in Sunday’s men’s wheelchair singles final at the LTA’s cinch Championships.

Wimbledon champion in 2016, Helensburgth's Reid will contest his second successive singles final at The Queen’s Club, having finished runner up to countryman Alfie Hewett in 2019.

They were due to meet in this year’s quarter-finals, but with Hewett withdrawing early on Saturday due to a back injury, the former Hermitage Academy pupil went straight into his last four match against world number four Gerard.

He said: “I was trying to force it a little bit too much in the first set. The first couple of games were pretty tight, but then my first serve percentage went down and I needed to get myself fired up a bit at the start of the second set.

"As I didn’t get to play a quarter-final I had to get myself going a bit.”

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World number 5 Reid said the energy from the on-site support after Cameron Norrie’s singles semi-final win was among the factors that helped secure him his 17th victory over Gerard in 34 meetings.

Now set to face top seed Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina in Sunday’s final, Reid added: “It was pretty cold conditions and quite quiet out there, but once the match finished on centre court we had a good atmosphere in the tie-break and I think the quality of the tie-break was quite good.

I’m pleased with the way I turned it around. This match was another step forwards for me and I’m looking forward to another opportunity to put in a good performance in the final.”

Friday’s rain meant that the players had to play their quarter-final and semi-final singles matches in the same day.

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Fernandez, the 2019 Wimbledon champion, opened his challenge with a 6-2, 6-2 quarter-final victory over 2017 and 2018 Wimbledon champion Stefan Olsson before going on to defeat Frenchman Stephane Houdet 6-4, 3-6, (11-9).

The world No.3 said: “I’m not very happy about my performance in the second match today. I think I played a brilliant first match against Stefan Olsson earlier, but I couldn’t keep my level up in the second match and my attitude was not the best. I could have done a lot of things differently.

"Gordon’s always a tough opponent so I just have to be ready to be very active on court and just play my game.”

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