{"id":591687,"date":"2023-01-28T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T09:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=591687"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T09:34:44","slug":"i-d-love-to-be-a-figurehead-alfie-hewett-wins-australian-open-wheelchair-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-d-love-to-be-a-figurehead-alfie-hewett-wins-australian-open-wheelchair-title","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;d love to be a figurehead&#8217;: Alfie Hewett wins Australian Open wheelchair title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alfie Hewett sobs with delight after winning his first singes title at the Australian Open having lost in the previous two finals.An emotional Alfie Hewett claimed his seventh grand slam title in wheelchair singles and first at the Australian Open before revealing his ambition to be a figurehead for the sport.Hewett had lost in the final at Melbourne Park for the past two years but made it third time lucky, defeating the 16-year-old Tokito Oda from Japan 6-3, 6-1. The success completed a golden two days for the Norfolk player, who also won the doubles title with his British teammate Gordon Reid on Friday.Hewett was 3-1 down in the first set but won five games in a row to take it and then repeated the sequence in the second set, sealing the victory with an ace before sobbing with delight. &#8220;I can&#8217;t really describe it at the moment,&#8221; said the 25-year-old, who has taken over as world No 1 after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emotional Alfie Hewett claimed his seventh grand slam title in wheelchair singles and first at the Australian Open before revealing his ambition to be a figurehead for the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}