05 September 2010
Britain's Lucy Shuker will contest Saturday's women's doubles final at the US Open USTA Wheelchair Tennis Championships in St Louis, while Peter Norfolk is through to the semi-finals of the quad singles after a mixed day on Friday at the fifth and final Super Series tournament of the season.
British No 1 Shuker and Australia's Daniela di Toro, the top seeds for the women's doubles, reached the final in St Louis for the second successive year after a 6-2, 6-2 victory over British No 2 Jordanne Whiley and American Dana Mathewson in Friday's semi-finals. Shuker and and di Toro will face Dutch duo Jiske Griffioen and Sharon Walraven in Saturday's final.
Meanwhile, Norfolk eased through his quad singles quarter-final against American seventh seed Bryan Barten 6-0, 6-2 in only his second match since April. World No 2 Norfolk will now bid to extend his unbeaten record against American world No 4 Nick Taylor. Taylor was taken to three sets for the second time in four matches against Britain's world No 6 Andrew Lapthorne before prevailing 6-2, 2-6 6-3 in their quarter-final.
A busy day for Lapthorne and Norfolk also saw them in action twice in the quad doubles, the third seeds beating fellow Briton Jamie Burdekin and Australia's Matthew Ingram 6-2, 6-1 in the quarter-final as they progress to a semi-final against top seeds and reigning Paralympic champions Taylor and David Wagner. However, despite having two victories over the Americans to their credit in the last two seasons, Lapthorne and Norfolk were just edged out on this occasion as Taylor and Wagner advanced to the final 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
British men's No 1 David Phillipson and his Japanese partner Satoshi Saida narrowly missed out on a place in the men's doubles quarter-finals after a 5-7, 7-6(6), 6-3 loss to French fourth seeds Frederic Cattaneo and Nicolas Peifer. Meanwhile, Britain's Marc McCarroll and Gordon Reid also took second seeds Stephane Houdet of France and Stefan Olsson of Sweden to three sets in the before eventually slipping to a 6-1, 3-6, 6-0 loss in their quarter-final.