The 19-year-old triumphed 7-5, 6-2 to secure his first victory over Reid in eight meetings and ensure a place in the first Super Series final of his career.

Hewett, the world number seven, gained a late break to snatch the opening set from Reid before play was halted due to extreme heat at the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre.

Despite the interval, he took the initiative in the second set and went onto seal the win to deny Reid a return to the final after finishing runner-up last year.

Victory for Hewett was sweet revenge having lost to Reid in the gold medal match at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Awaiting him in tomorrow’s final is defending champion Nicolas Peifer after the Frenchman recovered from winning just one game in the first set of his semi-final against Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez to prevail 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Peifer was just one game from victory in the deciding set when the match was suspended due to the intense heat, but he soon completed victory once the action resumed.

Hewett and Peifer will also meet in the men’s doubles final, alongside Reid and Stéphane Houdet respectively.

The match will be a repeat of last year’s final in Sydney and the Rio 2016 final, both of which were won by the French duo. 

Top seeds Houdet and Peifer won their semi-final against Japan’s Yohei Matsuda and Haruya Mizukoshi 6-0, 6-1.

Hewett and Reid had a much tougher time against Fernandez and The Netherlands’ Maikel Scheffers, eventually clinching the deciding match tie-break for a 6-4, 4-6 (10-7) victory.

The women’s singles final will be an all-Dutch encounter between reigning champion Jiske Griffioen and world number six Diede de Groot after both came through their last-four ties in straight sets.

De Groot claimed a 7-5, 7-6 victory over 2015 champion and world number two Yui Kamiji, avenging her losses against the Japanese in their previous two matches - in the final of the 2016 BNP Paribas Open de France and the bronze medal match at Rio 2016.

Griffioen, meanwhile, maintained her bid for a second successive Sydney title after ending the challenge of Germany's world number seven Sabine Ellerbrock with a 6-3, 6-2 win.

She will also feature in the women’s doubles final alongside Aniek van Koot after the top seeds eased through their semi-final against the all-German partnership of Ellerbrock and Katharina Kruger 6-1, 6-3.

They will face Kamiji and Great Britain’s Lucy Shuker in the final following their 6-1, 6-2 win over De Groot and American Dana Mathewson. 

In the quad singles, Australia’s Dylan Alcott remains unbeaten thanks to a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Britain’s Andy Lapthorne on the penultimate day of competition.

The world number one also recorded a victory yesterday against fellow Australian Heath Davidson, who has withdrawn from his remaining two matches and thus handed Lapthorne and American David Wagner walkovers.

Lapthorne has therefore finished his scheduled matches after beating world number two Wagner in his opening contest.

Wagner takes on Alcott tomorrow in the last of the quad singles round-robin matches and will be looking for his first on-court victory of 2017 after ending last year as NEC Masters champion.