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No men's bottom half confirmed to play Tuesday. It will be say or night rla on Tuesday. My guess is the day match, with nadal verdasco the night match.
Lleyton Hewitt
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Duckworth loves his 5 setters. Will fit in perfectly with the Hewitt circlejerk err I mean narrative.
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Top half of both the men's and women's draw will be played on Monday. Schedule, not before 5pm AEDST on Saturday #AusOpen
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Has Hewitt played an Australian Open day match in the last 10 years? I honestly can't remember a single instance.
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He has. I'll try and think of the match I can recall.
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There have been more. Its just bloody difficult to find schedule of plays for previous years tournaments.
Been great for Aus tennis but I was never a fan. Hopefully it means we can stop hearing Hewitt being referred to as "former world number one" in basically every media article.
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I actually enjoy it, it was unique until every other player started to join in with fist pumps and celebrations of their own.
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Duckworths five set record is shocking from memory
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Lleyton Hewitt has grown up over the years and is an Australian sporting legend who manages to surprise us every time. I was just reading an article called "How we learned to love loudmouth Lleyton" on sports news australia and I was transported back to the time in 2008 when Lleyton Hewitt was playing against Marcos Baghdatis at the 2008 Australian Open and they played till 4:30 am! Finally, it was the Australian who won the game and from then onwards he began changing bit by bit. Hewitt became more calm on and off-court and more generous towards opponents. Though he was a brat in the beginning, he has matured a lot over the years and definitely deserves a good farewell. I also think that he's a great commentator for the Australian Open. Lleyton is definitely an immense source of inspiration.
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He is definitely going to be commentating, he needs to keep the finances (and publicity) healthy for his wife.
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Doubt there's been an athlete in the history of sport who squeezed more out of his ability than Hewitt.
There were vanishingly few matches Hewitt played in his career where he had more weapons than the bloke on the other side of the net.
He had no right to win some of the matches he did, let alone be number one in the world for 80+ weeks. And they weren't run-of-the-mill matches either. We're talking stunning victories here against all-time greats of the sport. Sampras in a US Open Final (people don't appreciate just how much of a feat that was), Federer in a Davis Cup semi-final. And I lost count of the number of times he handed Roddick's ass to him, a bloke, by any logical assessment, he just shouldn't get anywhere near.
The most mentally tough athlete I think I've ever seen.
There were vanishingly few matches Hewitt played in his career where he had more weapons than the bloke on the other side of the net.
He had no right to win some of the matches he did, let alone be number one in the world for 80+ weeks. And they weren't run-of-the-mill matches either. We're talking stunning victories here against all-time greats of the sport. Sampras in a US Open Final (people don't appreciate just how much of a feat that was), Federer in a Davis Cup semi-final. And I lost count of the number of times he handed Roddick's ass to him, a bloke, by any logical assessment, he just shouldn't get anywhere near.
The most mentally tough athlete I think I've ever seen.
Watching alot of junior tennis at the time he was at his peak, it was astonishing the impact he had on the kids. All of sudden junior tennis players never gave up if they were 0-40 down or 0-5.
There have always been fighters and comebacks in tennis but he bought a whole new meaning to the saying 'no easy points'.
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So much for retirement.
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Next we will have another farewell party lol
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Cause Nick and Bernard were darling angels before Hewitt become DC captain.
And it was the right move to come out of retirement for the doubles. they took one of the best doubles teams ever to 5 sets and they had them rattled. and yes i know the Byran's arent what they used to be, but are u telling me that Groth could have returned as good as Hewitt did on that day.
