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| Cytat: | Hewitt vows to soldier on
Sydney,20 August 2008
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Lleyton Hewitt insists retirement is not on the horizon despite season-ending hip surgery ruling Australia's former world No.1 out of the US Open and a critical Davis Cup tie next month.
A day after dropping to his lowest ranking in nine years, Hewitt revealed he was left with no alternative than to go under the knife in a bid to resuscitate his once mighty career.
A frustrated Hewitt has been restricted to just four tournaments since April - the French Open and Wimbledon Grand Slam events plus the prestigious Queen's and Olympic Games - and the 27-year-old decided enough was enough.
"Surgery was always the last resort, but unfortunately that's what it came down to," Hewitt said.
"I am also shattered that I can't lead the Australian Davis Cup team in Chile in our bid to rejoin the World Group, and hope that the boys can still come through with a great win."
Hewitt will miss Australia's World Group playoff in Santiago from September 19-21, but hopes to recover in time for the summer season, with the Australian Open at Melbourne Park his next major goal.
His lack of tournament play has led Hewitt to slump to No.55 in the world, his lowest standing since May 1999, when he was a teenager about to tear up the rankings and eventually become the world's youngest-ever season-ending No.1 at 20 years and 10 months in 2001.
Had Hewitt soldiered on, the South Australian would have been unseeded at the US Open for the first time at a Grand Slam since the 2000 Australian Open.
Along with all-time greats Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl, Hewitt is one of only three players to have made seven successive US Open quarter-final appearances in the professional era.
Instead, the 2001 Flushing Meadows champion will sit out only his second major in a decade.
Apart from the 2005 French Open, when he had a broken rib, Hewitt has missed just one of the past 40 Grand Slam tournaments dating back to 1999 and has been the last Australian standing in 18 of his last 19 majors.
One of few fathers on the ATP Tour, and also expecting a second child with former actress wife Bec, Hewitt has vowed to continue playing, presuming his rehabilitation from arthroscopic surgery goes smoothly.
"I am looking forward to playing again in January in my home country, and using that as a springboard to compete at my best again on the world stage for at least a couple of more years," he said.
Despite being little more than a part-time player in 2008, Hewitt has performed commendably at the big events he has contested.
The two-time Grand Slam winner lost to world No.3 and eventual champion Novak Djokovic in the last 16 of the Australian Open and then managed to push world No.4 David Ferrer to five sets in the third round in Paris, without playing a claycourt warm-up.
Hewitt then succumbed to Roger Federer in the last 16 at Wimbledon and to the brilliant Swiss's successor as world No.1, all-conquering Spaniard Rafael Nadal, in the second round of the Beijing Games.
Indicating surgery may be on the cards, Hewitt said after bowing out of the Olympics last week that his rankings freefall was "the least of my worries".
"It's about getting my body right," he told AAP.
"If I play a full calendar, then I know where I can be in the world and that's all that really matters.
"Obviously the guys I've lost to since I started at the French Open have been the top four players in the world.
"So I probably haven't had the kindest draws. But that's what happens when you're not seeded as well." |
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| Cytat: | Aug 23
Australian Davis Cup teammates will struggle to carry on as Lleyton Hewitt recovers after finally submitting to the hip surgery which could revitalise his career.
But with the former No. 1 out in a best-case scenario until January's Australian Open, the nation's Davis Cup relegation date next September 19-21 against Chile could be looking dicey for the team.
“I'm shattered that I can’t lead the Australian Davis Cup team in Chile in our bid to rejoin the World Group”, said Hewitt. “I open that the boys can still come through with a great win”.
The away tie in South American will be a tough ask for the fading tennis power.
Patchy Chris Guccione, a first-round loser in five of his last six tournaments, will be the lone Aussie man straight into the US Open. He will also be the point man for a depleted Davis team.
The big man holds three singles wins this season in the worldwide team competition against minimal opponents Taiwan and Thailand. Chile will definitely be a step up in quality, with Olympic silver medallist Fernando Gonzalez leading the home stand on clay.
It's going to be a tough decision for captain John Fitzgerald and coach Darren Cahill. “My heart goes out to Lleyton, I know how much he loves to play for his country and how badly he wants us to win our way back into the World Group”, said Fitzy.
”He's the best performed Davis Cup player in our history, so they are big shoes to fill. We hope he makes a speedy recovery and he'll be playing by the Australian summer. With Lleyton out it is an opportunity for someone else to step up“. |
byla realna szansa na grupe swiatowa
a tak wszystko szlag jasny trafil 
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| Cytat: | Court time has Hewitt feeling good
January 8, 2009
A WEARY Lleyton Hewitt admits that more than nine hours of court time has left his hip feeling "stiff" but the former world No.1 says the hectic Hopman Cup schedule is the perfect preparation for the Australian Open.
Since his opening match on Monday, Hewitt has spent nine hours and 16 minutes on court, with his singles wins over Nicolas Kiefer and Dominik Hrbaty each going the distance.
The 27-year-old, who underwent career-saving surgery on his hip last year, was on court until early yesterday morning in Australia's marathon 2-1 tie loss to the Slovak Republic.
Hewitt, playing his first matches since last year's Beijing Olympics, admitted he was starting to feel a few aches and pains but said the tough three-set matches were just what he needed.
"I guess it's just a matter of getting the matches under my belt and getting in a routine and getting your body to understand how you've got to bounce back day after day in match situations," Hewitt said.
"That's the tough thing. Hard courts aren't the easiest surface for your body. Going into the Australian Open you want to get the matches under your belt.
"Obviously against Kiefer and Hrbaty, I played two tough singles matches that both went the distance, which is a good thing I think. I've put in the hard work and to be able to handle that kind of tennis [is pleasing].
"It [my hip] is not too bad, just a little bit stiff, I guess."
Australia tackle the top-seeded US today but the host nation can't reach tomorrow's final after dropping their opening two ties against Germany and the Slovak Republic.
Hewitt has a 7-1 record against his opponent James Blake but has not played the American since 2006. Casey Dellacqua, who dropped her singles matches to Sabine Lisicki and Dominika Cibulkova, meets Meghann Shaughnessy for the first time.
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moze marudze
ale jakos nie podoba mi sie to zdanie, które pogrubilam 
ale z kolei to napawa mnie optymizmem  :
| Cytat: | "It's good to be back," Hewitt said after the match, which lasted almost three hours. "It's been a long time out, close to five months since I've played a match. "I've been hanging for this match for a long time ... it's a great way to start the year.
"It takes a lot of courage to come back from surgery and to come back and lose the first set in a tiebreak and then win the second and third convincingly - it's a good start."
Hewitt converted seven of 11 break point chances and said he felt no ill effects from the hip injury that sidelined him after the Beijing Olympics.
"It feels good, the hip feels strong," Hewitt said. |
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| Cytat: | Former No.1 Hewitt's self-belief still burning brightly
January 10, 2009
The rankings no longer matter to Lleyton Hewitt. The former world No.1, who spent a dizzying 75 consecutive weeks - and a total of 80 - at the top earlier this decade, has only one focus as he enters the twilight of his career: grand slam glory.
Hewitt, a dual major winner, has slipped to 70th in the world after spending almost five months out of the game with a career-threatening hip injury.
His return to the court at Perth's Hopman Cup started well enough when he fought out two tough three-set wins over Nicolas Kiefer and Dominik Hrbaty. But the task confronting Hewitt in his bid to regain his former glory was glaringly obvious in a listless 6-2, 6-2 loss to world No.10 James Blake.
Many would argue that the likes of Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have opened a gap too great for Hewitt to breach.
In what has become an annual plea, Australian greats John Newcombe and Pat Rafter have again urged Hewitt to become more aggressive, believing the 27-year-old's trademark fighting spirit is no longer enough to carry him over the line against the world's best.
The stubborn Hewitt continues to disagree. The brash South Australian was a risk-taker in his younger days but has grown more cautious as the years roll on. Gone are the backhand winners down the line, replaced with safer strokes from behind the baseline.
"We all know when he goes out there and starts hitting short balls and relies on defence he can't cut it out there," Newcombe said last week. "He has got to take it to his opponents, go for his shots and play a variety of shots, and that's what he's doing with 'Rochey' [coach Tony Roche]. If he can apply that in his matches, in 12 months' time he'll be back in the top 10."
But Hewitt, desperate to add to his 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon successes, remains adamant he has what it takes to match it with Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray without changing his game. "I think on any given day - with matches under my belt and hopefully getting a good rhythm and routine again - yeah, I think that on any given surface I can give them a run," Hewitt says. "So right at the moment I'm not too worried about the ranking, purely because I feel like I'm a hell of a lot better player than where my ranking's at."
No doubt he is right; check his grand slam results and Hewitt rarely loses to mugs and invariably reaches the fourth round or so. He remains a genuine top-20 performer. The trouble is, he also rarely beats the big guns these days.
He has not defeated Nadal or Djokovic since 2006, while his last victory over Federer came in 2003, when he came from two sets and a break down to defeat the Swiss maestro. Since then, Federer has reeled off 12 straight wins against Hewitt.
While some players get better with age, Hewitt's high-octane game has already taken such a heavy toll on his body, it means he will probably head in the opposite direction.
Andre Agassi was 33 and four months when he last held the mantle of world No.1 but Hewitt knows he doesn't have the game or the body to emulate the great American's feat.
"The way that he did come back was amazing," Hewitt says. "He's one of a kind though. There's not too many people that could keep going at 35, 36 and still be competitive.
"And Federer was probably at the peak of his game then and Andre was still pushing him in a couple of those grand slams over five sets. I've been fortunate enough to have a few chats with Andre in the last couple of years since he's retired, and I've hit with him a couple of times. He's got a great outlook on the game and in life in general."
After undergoing months of frustrating rehab following hip surgery, Hewitt says it will take time for him to regain peak touch and fitness.
"I feel really good … but obviously for me the first six months of this year is a building process," he says. "When you've been out for five months or so you can't expect to come out straight away and be playing your best tennis. Everyone talks about match fitness, match hardness. When I was world No.1 and playing week in and week out, you're on auto-pilot out there the whole time.
"You don't have to think about a lot. You come up to the big points and you trust your instincts, and that's what I have to get back into the routine of doing. For me, it's still all about the grand slams.
"When you've won grand slams and been No.1, the smaller tournaments take a back seat a little bit. So, for me, I work my schedule out around the grand slams and Davis Cup. I work backwards from those and I want to be peaking at those events."
Going into his 13th Australian Open, Hewitt warned opponents to write him off at their peril.
"When I look at the Australian Open, I'll be a dangerous floater and I don't think a lot of the top guys would like to meet me in the first or second round," Hewitt says.
"I'll take my luck (in the draw).
"You might get a top-10 guy and one of the lower top-10 guys first or second round.
"Knock them off, and you take their draw for the rest of the tournament."
Love him or hate him, there's no doubting that tennis fans Australia-wide will be glued to their televisions when Hewitt takes to the court at the Australian Open.
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to ja ci słonce życze tego szczescia w drabince!
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James Blake o Lleytonie po ich meczu na HC ( L. Hewitt - J. Blake 2-6 2-6 ):
| Cytat: | "I think we all saw that wasn't the Lleyton Hewitt we've come to know, the player that can win a grand slam title."
"He wasn't at his best today and it's tough to play against a guy that's not at his best.
"We all wish him well and it takes a lot to stay out there the way he did today because I think a lot of other players would have stopped and just called it a day.
"But he's a great fighter as we all know and he fought in front of his own crowd so bravo for that." |
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| Cytat: | Hewitt not looking too far ahead
Melbourne,18 January 2009
Darren Saligari
Australia’s No.1 player Lleyton Hewitt believes that he has more to achieve before his celebrated tennis career comes to an end.
Speaking to a large media contingent the day before main draw play begins at the first Grand Slam event of 2009, Hewitt said that he was as motivated as ever, perhaps even more so.
“I still feel I can get back into the top 10 and push those better guys at the top of the rankings.
“So, yeah, if the motivation wasn't there, then I wouldn't be playing.”
It will be his first Grand Slam since the French Open last May where the injured Hewitt made it to the third round but fell to claycourt specialist David Ferrer in a long five-setter.
Since then Hewitt has undergone surgery for a hip problem and then worked his way through rehab. His form at January’s Hopman Cup gave him valuable match practice and served as a confidence booster as well.
He then travelled to Sydney, where he is a four-time winner, and made it to the quarterfinals. He fell to eventual winner David Nalbandian in two tight sets.
For Hewitt the signs are good and his confidence appears to be on the rise.
“Obviously, you know, I think for anyone, I'm probably one of the more dangerous unseeded players in the draw,” the 27 year old declared.
His first-up opponent will be Australian Open 2007 finalist Fernando Gonzalez, who holds a 3-2 winning record over Hewitt.
Hewitt wouldn’t be drawn on his chances of winning the title, nor would he nominate a round that he would like to make it to. His only focus, he said, was his first match with Gonzalez and what he needed to do to prepare.
When asked if his preparation was sufficient for a seven-match Grand Slam campaign, Hewitt played the question with a straight bat: “Don't know. Just
take the first one, see how we go after that.”
Hewitt did, however, discuss the hot topic of the moment – whether or not the Australian Open should be moved back a couple of weeks, something Hewitt is opposed to.
“This is the time that I've always known it as the Australian Open, the dates that I've always come to, around these dates, late January, since I was coming here as a young kid to come and watch.
“For an Australian, it fits in so well with obviously the school holidays and getting kids out there.
“And I think for the sport of tennis in this country, that really helps as well, you know, that the young kids can come out and watch a lot of it, even on the back courts, get a good atmosphere out here.”
Later Roger Federer clarified his stance on the issue, saying that earlier comments had been taken out of context.
“What we said was in a perfect world it would be nicer to have a longer Australian swing, move around a little bit. But we don't live in a perfect world.
“It's still great, for instance, to have the Australian Open where it is because we're having record numbers, prize money has gone up. Players love this tournament.
“It's really become a very, very prestigious Grand Slam to play and one of our favourites. It is basically the players' slam,” said Federer.
A sentiment that Hewitt shared: “I think they put on a great event here. It's in an awesome stadium, great arena.
“You know, obviously I love playing here. But I think, you know, everyone really enjoys it here. We get looked after really well, which is good.” |
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w panice po wczorajszym "wystepie" przekopalam net i znalzlam artykul z 20. stycznia
| Cytat: | Its boom or bust for Hewitt Jan 20
Jake Niall
January 20, 2009
LLEYTON Hewitt's manager believes that the former world No. 1 would probably retire from tennis if he was unable to improve his ranking from its current, unflattering position of 70.
And while the Hewitt camp is confident that, given a reasonable run with injury, he can return to the top 10, his manager David Drysdale also revealed that Hewitt briefly contemplated retirement before undergoing surgery to repair a hip problem last August. He said Hewitt had faced a simple choice — surgery, "or give it away".
"We didn't know whether the surgery was going to fix it," Drysdale told The Age, in a free-ranging interview last week.
"You know, we hoped it would. Basically, he was left with surgery or give it away — and they were the two options he had, and he had to make a decision as to whether he wanted to give it away."
Asked whether Hewitt would keep playing in the event that he was unable to lift his ranking from its present range, Drysdale said: "I don't think so. That's me, getting his make-up … If he can't get out there and give it the best that he can possibly give — and know what he can give — I don't think he'd hang around.
"He's the sort of guy that might turn around and just say 'right, well, I'm finished'. There'll be no farewell tour, there'll be none of that sort of palaver that goes on. It'll be 'right, that's it', and (he'll) walk away."
Drysdale confirmed that before the operation Hewitt had considered the retirement question. "Of course. Yeah," he said.
Hewitt, whose operation was successful, was encouraged to keep playing because "he knows that if he can fix his body, he can get back (up) there".
"You didn't want him to walk away and think 'what if', but then again, it was his decision … and at the moment it looks like it was the right decision."
Drysdale was confident that Hewitt could return to the top 10 — one of his goals for 2009 — provided his body stood up.
"The idea is to keep his body healthy, and then if we can give him a full season this year, then the way he hits the ball and the way he competes, then there's no reason why he can't make top 10, top 15 by the end of the year."
Hewitt, whose drop in the rankings — caused primarily by his lay-off and lack of matches (31 in 2008) — has forced him into a difficult first-round assignment today against 2007 Australian Open finalist Fernando Gonzales, has been in discussions with Tennis Australia about an off-court role encouraging people to play the sport.
"He's passionate about he wants us to do more to get more people to play," said Drysdale.
"We've been talking to Tennis Australia quite regularly about it, and (Open tournament director and Tennis Australia official) Craig Tiley.
"We're trying to work with them on something … to get Lleyton to be the face of getting people to play the sport.
"It's all very in infancy at the moment; he wants to put something back, to get kids to play the game."
Tiley, who has a strong relationship with Hewitt, said: "We hope in the coming months we'll be able to have something final with Lleyton's involvement, to have his expertise contribute towards our future.
"Lleyton wants nothing more than for Australia to be a championship nation in the sport."
Hewitt has been frustrated by a lack of support in the playing ranks — he is the only Australian ranked in the top 100. "I think that's a legitimate frustration, but we hope to help him by developing the youth," Tiley said.
Drysdale said Hewitt would not be 100 per cent for "another couple of months" and that he should be in top condition by Wimbledon.
"Every time he steps on the court he wants to win, there's no doubt about that, but we've just got to be realistic that five months off is a long time," he said.
"I think it's fair to say we shouldn't have high expectations for the Australian Open. It's more about getting him through; every match he plays, if he gets past that match, that's one extra step he takes. And maybe we should be looking more at Wimbledon and the US Open.
"I think if he stays fit, Wimbledon is a place he'd really like to do well. There's fewer players there that know how to play on (grass). He feels great on that, physically, he should be right by about Wimbledon. I wouldn't throw him out of the mix for the French Open; he played well on the clay there last year."
But Hewitt's French Open preparations could be compromised by his strong commitment to the Davis Cup, with a zonal tie — against either India or Taiwan — clashing with some of the European claycourt season.
"He probably would have been looking to play a couple of tournaments leading into the French," Drysdale said.
"But now he'd have to come back and play Davis Cup in India maybe on grass, or hardcourt, or whatever it is that they play on, or back to Australia and play on hardcourt, then he's got to go back and get ready for the French.
"So if he put himself first, (he) wouldn't play. But because it's for Australia, he goes 'no way, I'm coming back to play'. I think sometimes he doesn't get enough credit for the fact that he puts the country first before himself."
Drysdale said Hewitt had made excellent progress in his return this summer and was planning a much busier playing schedule in 2009.
"He'll have a much, much more intensive year this year. He's playing a number of tournaments in the States. We always base everything around grand slams and Davis Cup — they come first — and then the perfect lead-ups to the grand slams and, to be honest, he'd be better off not playing Davis Cup this year."
Drysdale said how long Hewitt intended to play, "whether that's two years, three years, four years, I think the body's going to determine that more than Lleyton's desire". |
nie ukrywam ze zrobilo mi sie słabo po tym artykule
choc jest sprzed miesiaca i duzo sie zmienilo
ale mnie przerazil, szczegolnie dzisiaj...
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| Cytat: | Fitzy heaps praise on Hewitt
John Fitzgerald has hailed Lleyton Hewitt as the greatest Davis Cup servant of his generation following the former world No.1’s epic journey to Thailand for Australia’s low-key zonal tie this weekend.
Putting his ATP comeback on hold, Hewitt - the most successful singles player in Australian Davis Cup history - has made the long trek from the US to once again spearhead Fitzgerald’s team in an Asia-Oceania second-round playoff in Bangkok.
“I can’t speak highly enough about what Lleyton does for this team and his country,” the Australian captain told AAP from Bangkok.
“He flew 30 hours to be here; he flew from Memphis (where he played two weeks ago), then played Delray Beach and flew here with a stopover in New York.
“Then he’ll fly straight back and play Indian Wells next week. You can never doubt his commitment to this team. He deserves some credit.”
In an era when many elite players opt out of Davis Cup to focus on their individual careers, Fitzgerald lauded Hewitt as an outstanding exception.
“(Rafael) Nadal has a pretty good record in the competition but, over a longer period, Lleyton and Andy Roddick are the two players who really stand out for their commitment.
“And if you check the records, Lleyton’s probably been playing Davis Cup longer.”
Since debuting as a teenager in 1999, Hewitt has compiled a 38-11 win-loss record in Davis Cup - 32-8 in singles - and piloted Australia to four finals in 10 years, including titles in ‘99 and 2003.
But there will be little glory for Hewitt in Bangkok, where he is aiming to lead Australia to the next round of Asia-Oceania Group One.
This weekend’s victors will meet either Taiwan or India in May for a berth in the World Group playoffs in September.
Australia, who thumped Thailand 5-0 in Townsville last April, are desperate to rejoin the elite 16-nation World Group for the first time since losing to Belgium in the first round in 2007.
Hewitt’s support cast consists of Chris Guccione, Carsten Ball and 19-year-old Brydan Klein, who is hoping to make his Cup debut after winning selection in the Australian team following his back-to-back satellite successes in Burnie and Mildura last month.
Thailand are led by world No.159 Danai Udomchoke and doubles twins Sonchat and Sanchai Ratiwatana, with 18-year-old Kittiphong Wachiramanowong the hosts’ fourth player.
While Guccione is likely to serve as Australia’s No.2 singles player on day one, Fitzgerald said he was hoping to share the workload over the three-day hardcourt tie rather than rely on Hewitt to back up for doubles duties.
“It’s pretty hot and humid here,” Fitzgerald said.
“There’s three players capable of playing doubles and, in conditions like these, it would be nice to share the load around.
“We need to pick players who can win three rubbers over the course of the weekend, and so a lot will depend on what happens on the opening day.”
The official draw will be held tomorrow, with the tie starting on Friday. |
mozna byc z niego dumnym
tylko ja chyba bym wola byc ciut mniej dumna
a zeby jemu te strefy czasowe nie zaszkodziły
i zeby chcociaz to cos dało i zeby wrocili do grupy swiatowej...
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| Cytat: | "To his credit he played well and he played better as the match went on,” said Hewitt after the match.
“I had a few chances we both had a few chances. My biggest opportunity was at 4 all, I had a break point and if I got that I could have been serving for the match.”
Hewitt admitted his hip was started causing him some problems mid-way through the third set, but he hopes to play at Indian Wells.
"I am still going to try and play Indian wells next week ... For me it is just a matter of strengthening the hip up as well, after the surgery it will take 6 months to 12 months to get back to full strength." |
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Skoro na razie chce grać w IW, to może nie jest aż tak źle.
On dosyć dużo grał ostatnio i mógł się przeforsować po prostu, może powinien był trochę rzadziej grać na początku.
Zobaczymy jak będzie w IW i ewentualnie, co powiedzą lekarze. Miejmy nadzieję, że to jednak nie jest jakiś silny nawrót i będzie w stanie grać dalej .
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| Cytat: | Hewitt Matches Sampras's Indian Wells Mark
Two-time BNP Paribas Open champion Lleyton Hewitt moved into a second place tie with Pete Sampras on the list of Indian Wells match wins leader after opening with a 7-6(3), 6-3 win over Czech Jan Hernych on Thursday.
Hernych held his own with the former ATP World Tour Champion in the first set, saving six break points on serve to force a tie-break, but faltered as Hewitt reeled off the final four points to take the set lead. The Aussie then made good on his two break point chances in the 28-minute second set to improve to a perfect 6-0 record against Hernych.
The 28-year-old Hewitt has a 27-9 mark at the season's first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament, highlighted by consecutive titles in 2002 (d. d Henman) and '03 (d. Kuerten) and a runner-up finish in 2005 (l. to Federer). Andre Agassi, the 2001 champion, tops the leader board with a 31-13 record in Indian Wells.
Hewitt, who entered the tournament at No. 77 in the South African Airways 2009 ATP Rankings after being hobbled most of last season by a left hip injury, will next have a chance to avenge his Australian Open loss to No. 17 seed Fernando Gonzalez. The two players faced off in the first round at Melbourne with Gonzalez prevailing in five sets. |
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