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Gordon Reid wrote his name into the history books after clinching a place in the inaugural wheelchair singles final at The Championships.
The 24-year-old Briton defeated No.2 two seed Joachim Gerard 7-6(9), 6-4 and will face Stefan Olsson (pictured above) in Sunday's final.
"It's massive for me. Going in here I knew how much of a milestone for our sport it is. To be involved in the final now and have the opportunity to try and win the first ever singles title is very big," he said.
Gerard served twice for the opening set at 5-4 and 6-5 but Reid forced a fiercely contested tie-break which went his way. Reid raced to a 5-2 lead in set two and, despite a late surge from the Belgian, was roared on by a packed Court 17 to a second Grand Slam final after his Australian Open win in January.
A talented young sportsman, Reid lost the use of his legs at the age of 13 when he contracted transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder affecting the spinal cord. But wheelchair tennis offered the young Briton another chance to play the game.
It's massive for me. Going in here I knew how much of a milestone for our sport it is
"When I was in hospital for six months, fully paralysed it was a scary time. Sport was such a massive part of my life and I felt like it had been fully taken away from me. It was devastating. But that's now opened doors to me through wheelchair tennis that I never would have had," he said.
Wimbledon's decision to join the other Grand Slams and embrace the singles version of the game is a mark of wheelchair tennis' growing popularity, Reid added.
"Even this week, some people had doubts about how it was going to look, that it was going to be awful and nobody would want to watch it," he added.
"But I think we've proved this week so far that people are loving to watch the singles even here. The standard is really high and I think everyone's just really happy we're playing singles here.
"I think [wheelchair singles] is still to be perfected. We'll analyse the matches after this week and look at what went right and what didn't and change maybe the preparation for next year."
In the women's draw, Britain's Jordanne Whiley failed to emulate Reid's success and was downed by Aniek Van Koot. The 2015 US Open champion led 5-3 in the first set but her Dutch opponent won four games in a row to seal the first set 7-5 before taking the second 6-3.
In the doubles, Reid and fellow Briton Alfie Hewett bagged a place in the final where they will meet France's Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer.
