HELENSBURGH hero Gordon Reid will get his bid for a fifth Paralympic wheelchair tennis medal under way this weekend.

The former Hermitage Academy pupil won singles gold at Rio in 2016 and followed that up with bronze in Tokyo three years ago, while he and fellow Brit Alfie Hewett took silver in both Brazil and Japan.

The singles tournament begins at Roland-Garros on Friday, though Reid, the event’s fifth seed, has a bye in the first round, with his second round tie against either Suresh Dharmasena of Sri Lanka or Josef Riegler of Austria due to be played on Sunday.

Reid and Hewett also have a bye in the first round of the men’s doubles competition, in which they are the top seeds, with their round two match against the Chilean duo of Alexander Cataldo and Brayan Tapia also scheduled for Sunday.

The Brits go into the Games on top form, having won all three of this year’s Grand Slam tournaments, including the French Open in June, their sixth successive title at Roland-Garros.

The duo’s triumph at Wimbledon last month – when, as in France, they defeated the Japanese pair of Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda in the final – was the 25th Grand Slam doubles title of Reid’s career, and his 21st alongside Hewett, with doubles gold at the Paralympics the only title missing from their sizeable, and record-breaking, honours list.

The British pair lost out to France’s Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer in the gold medal matches in both Rio and Tokyo, though Peifer is not competing in Paris, with Houdet teaming up this time with countryman Frederic Cattaneo.

The gold medal match is scheduled to take place on Friday, August 6.