Helensburgh's Gordon Reid thanks crowd after Wimbledon win

Reid admitted to "tearing up" as he and fellow Brit Alfie Hewett reached match point in their men's wheelchair doubles final in front of a passionate crowd on Court 1 at SW19 on Saturday.

The pair duly chalked up their 18th Grand Slam doubles crown together with a 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 win over Japan's Tokito Oda and Takuya Miki.

Back-to-back love service games for the two Brits saw them edge ahead 3-2 in the final set - and it was a lead they were not to lose in front of an adoring near-capacity crowd.

The victory earned Reid and Hewett their fifth men’s wheelchair doubles title together at the All England Club.

Afterwards, Reid said: “I want to say thank you to all our team from the LTA [Lawn Tennis Association].

“On match point we were both tearing up a little bit because of the atmosphere.

“My first Wimbledon was in 2008. If you’d told me then that we’d be on No 1 Court in front of a nearly full stadium, with a crowd going absolutely berserk, I’d never have believed you.”

The two Brits booked their place in the final with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Martin de la Puente of Spain and Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez - the duo Reid and Hewett had defeated in the final of the French Open at Roland-Garros in June.

Hewett added: “I feel like I'm playing confidently. It's a lot of pressure to put on your shoulders, to go out there and play in front of all those people, which we're still getting used to, but we embrace it.

“I just really try to go full guns in, full guns blazing and just give it my all.”

Reid's bid for singles glory fell short with a 6-3, 6-4 defeat at the hands of top seed Oda in the semi-finals - with the world number one going on to defeat Hewett 6-4, 6-2 in Sunday's final.

Reid and Hewett are both supported by the wheelchair elite programme run by the LTA, the national governing body for tennis in Great Britain.