GB’s Hewett and Reid speed into second round

Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid both won the men’s wheelchair doubles competition in the US Open, but they only managed one game to advance.

The top seeds defeated Americans Charlie Cooper and Conner Stroud 6-0 6-1 in 51 minutes, giving the hosts the lead.

Cooper and Stroud and Cooper combined for four winners in the British duo’s first game, and they each won each of their 19 points on their first try.

Hewett and Reid, who won at the Australian Open and Roland Garros, are competing for their third Grand Slam title this year.

After being canceled last year due to conflicting schedules with the Paralympics, wheelchair tennis is returning to New York.

With a 6-2, 6-0 victory over American Maylee Phelps and Japanese Saki Takamuro, Britain’s Lucy Shuker and Jiske Griffioen of the Netherlands also advanced to the second round.

British duo Heath Davidson and Robert Shaw defeated Australian-Canadian duo Greg Slade and his Australian partner Jin Woodman 6-1, 6 6-7, 10-7, in the men’s quad doubles.