Britain’s Alfie Hewett reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open wheelchair singles before teaming up with Gordon Reid to progress to the last four of the doubles.

Second seed Hewett, the 2023 singles champion at Melbourne Park, claimed a flawless 6-0 6-0 win over Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands.

Reid lost his singles quarter-final 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 6-1 to Argentine fourth seed Gustavo Fernandez, who will play Hewett next.

Hewett and Reid – who are top seeds and have won the Melbourne doubles title together on five occasions – then joined forces to beat Japanese duo Takuya Miki and Daisuke Arai 6-2 6-0.

In the quad wheelchair doubles, Andy Lapthorne and his Dutch partner Sam Schroder defeated Chile’s Francisco Cayulef and Gonzalo Enrique Lazarte of Argentina 5-7 7-5 12-10 to reach the semi-finals.

But Lapthorne lost his quad singles quarter-final 6-2 6-0 to Dutch second seed Niels Vink.

Iga Swiatek dropped just three games as she breezed past Emma Navarro to reach the Australian Open semi-finals and continue her bid for a maiden Melbourne title.

Five-time major winner Swiatek was ruthless in a 6-1 6-2 victory over eighth seed Navarro.

Swiatek has dropped just 14 games at Melbourne Park this year – and seven of those came in her first round match.

The Pole will face Madison Keys in the last four after the American came from a set down to beat Elina Svitolina.

Keys will need to be at her big-hitting best to beat Swiatek, who was dominant against the highly-rated Navarro.

Swiatek broke to love in the match’s first service game and wrapped up the opening set inside 36 minutes.

However there was controversy at 2-2 in the second set when the umpire did not spot a double bounce at a crucial moment.

The ball bounced twice before Swiatek, with the advantage on her serve, flicked over a winner, but umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore missed it.

Navarro protested but was unable to use the video technology review – which would have shown a replay of the footage – because she had carried on playing the point, instead of stopping it.

Swiatek subsequently broke in the next game and ran away with the match to match her best result at Melbourne Park.

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Turkish side Fenerbahce have agreed a deal with Aston Villa to sign centre-back Diego Carlos.

The Brazilian, who joined Villa from Sevilla in 2022, confirmed on social media on Tuesday he was on his way to Istanbul.

Fenerbahce are reportedly paying 10m euros (£8.45m), external for the 31-year-old.

Carlos made 58 appearances for Villa and scored one goal, but he has not been involved in the club’s past five games.

Writing on X, Fenerbahce said: “Our club has reached an agreement in principle with the club for the transfer of Diego Carlos, who plays for Aston Villa.

“The Brazilian player has been invited to Istanbul for health checks and to further the transfer negotiations.”

Fenerbahce – managed by Jose Mourinho – are second in the Turkish Super Lig table, six points behind leaders Galatasaray.

Meanwhile, Villa missed the chance to all but secure their place in the Champions League knockouts as they were beaten 1-0 by Monaco on Tuesday.

Luke Littler has weighed in on the debate between snooker’s 147 break and darts’ nine-dart finish on his 18th birthday, siding with seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan.

The teenage darts sensation, who recently claimed victory over Michael van Gerwen at Alexandra Palace, believes achieving a maximum break in snooker requires more skill than a perfect leg in darts.

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“You pot a red ball, you pot a coloured ball, and you just go over and over again. It’s really hard. I’d say a 147 is a lot harder.”

A maximum break requires a player to successfully pot 36 consecutive balls, alternating between red and black before clearing the colours.

O’Sullivan echoed these sentiments when questioned by darts legend Raymond van Barneveld in 2023.

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“The 147 must be harder, I think,” O’Sullivan said.

“I think what you guys do on a dartboard and the way you make it look so easy is just unbelievable, so total respect to you guys.”

The snooker champion elaborated: “Maybe the 147 might be slightly harder, just because it’s 36 shots and you’ve got only nine to do.

“We have to do four times the amount of work that you do.”

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Statistics support the frequency of both achievements, with 210 recognised maximum breaks in snooker compared to 96 televised nine-dart finishes.

Luke Littler has already hit a nine-darter – doing so at last year’s Bahrain Masters and Belgian Open

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Both sports have seen a dramatic increase in perfect performances in recent years.

The 1980s witnessed just eight 147 breaks in snooker, while 55 have been achieved since 2020.

Similarly in darts, only two nine-dart finishes were recorded between 1984 and 2001, yet 42 have been televised in this decade alone.

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Littler’s perspective carries particular weight given his own mastery of the nine-dart finish.

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The teenage star has already demonstrated his prowess by achieving perfect legs at both the Bahrain Masters and Belgian Open last year.

His success continued into the World Championship, where he witnessed two other players accomplish nine-dart finishes during the tournament.

This first-hand experience with darts’ highest achievement makes his endorsement of snooker’s 147 as the greater feat especially noteworthy.