HELENSBURGH hero Gordon Reid has moved to within one match of the Australian Open final - and if he gets there he could find himself up against fellow Brit Alfie Hewett.

The former Hermitage Academy pupil extended his unbeaten record against Dutchman Tom Egberink to 22 matches after a 7-5, 6-2 victory that sets up a semi-final against Japanese top seed Tokito Oda.

Reid had booked his passage into the last eight with a straight-sets first round win over Egberink's countryman, Maikel Scheffers.

The world No 5 said: “I’ve played him so many times and never lost and so now there’s a confidence there, a belief that’s maybe not always there against other players I’ve not even lost to.

"He came out with a different style of play than he usually brings against me. He was really aggressive, and he really pushed me in the middle of the second set and at the start of the second.”

The 32-year-old's victory was the first of his two matches at Melbourne Park on Tuesday - and in the second he partnered Hewett to a straightforward 6-1, 6-0 win over the Australian duo of Anderson Parker and Ben Weekes in the quarter-final of the men's doubles.

Reid and Hewett, who are going for a fifth Australian Open doubles title together, will play Japan's Daisuke Arai and Takashi Sanada in the semi-finals.

Hewett reached the last four of the men's singles with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Chile's Alexander Cataldo and will now face Belgium's Joachim Gerard for a place in the final.