Wheelchair tennis player Heath Davidson is the last Australian left at Roland Garros, after reaching the Quad doubles final with Brazilian partner Ymanitu Silva.
Heath Davidson, the Australian charged with following the success of his title-laden former wheelchair tennis partner Dylan Alcott, has made a superb Roland Garros debut by reaching the quad doubles final at the French Open./ Ymanitu Silva def Andy Lapthorne / David Wagner 1-6, 6-4, The 35-year-old is now the last Aussie representative at the Paris slam after John Peers earlier on Wednesday crashed out of the mixed doubles in the semi-finals.
Davidson, who also linked up with fellow Victorian Alcott for Paralympic gold in 2016, has a new partner in Brazilian Ymanitu Silva following the retirement of his 23-time grand slam title-winning colleague. Davidson and Silva opened up their title bid with a 1-6, 6-4 win, edging the super breaker against the second seeds, Briton Andy Lapthorne and American veteran David Wagner, after an hour and a half.
Davidson, the four-time Australian Open doubles champion with Alcott, has now reached a seventh grand slam doubles final, but his first without his old partner. Davidson and Silva will face the winner of the other semi-final — between top-seeded Dutch pair Sam Schroder and Niels Vink and South Africa's Donald Ramphadi and Japan's Koji Sugeno — in the final.
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