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The Lleyton Hewitt Appreciation Thread
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*waits for people to claim he will be back in the top 5 this year*
nothing tournament, remember Wayne Arthurs won a tournament of silmilar quality a couple of years ago
nothing tournament, remember Wayne Arthurs won a tournament of silmilar quality a couple of years ago
Let's remember that his ranking means that at Grand Slams he is not seeded to make the 4th round. He needs all the points he can get from these lesser tournaments, otherwise running into Federer or Nadal (or another high seed) in just the 3rd round is a possibility.
Vince Spadea
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Will be interesting to see how he goes in the upcoming Masters Series event in Indian Wells, which in his prime was always one of his best events.
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legitimatic
Premiership Player
Hewitt is past it, just accept it and move on.
NSWCROW
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Lleyton sits back and counts the dollars while the plebs carry on about how he is " Past it "
Well played son
Anyone have WAYNE ARTHURS head to head record against SAFIN ??
Well played son
Anyone have WAYNE ARTHURS head to head record against SAFIN ??
Looked good in today's final. He really tried to hit the ball deep with extra top spin. I don't think I've even seen him play that sort of game.
I think things might start to settle down for Lleyton. His on-road marriage/family shouldn't affect him so much, and the bad publicity has past him. It looks like with solid continued matches he'll be on the rise again.
I think things might start to settle down for Lleyton. His on-road marriage/family shouldn't affect him so much, and the bad publicity has past him. It looks like with solid continued matches he'll be on the rise again.
legitimatic
Premiership Player
Looked good in today's final. He really tried to hit the ball deep with extra top spin. I don't think I've even seen him play that sort of game.
I think things might start to settle down for Lleyton. His on-road marriage/family shouldn't affect him so much, and the bad publicity has past him. It looks like with solid continued matches he'll be on the rise again.
No he won't, he simply doesn't have the game to match it with the top players anymore, will be surprised if he gets past the Quaterfinal stage in any Grand Slam from now on.
If his olds continue to travel the world to keep within view of their pot of gold, the bad publicity will continue. I know if it were me, I'd say, "Mum, Dad, how bout you sit the next few out and I'll see you in June at Wimbledon? And here's a million bucks, go on a cruise or something."
LukeParkerno1
Post-Human
As opposed to Hewitt who has been playing every single tournament of late
Hewitt has played more than Safin has in the past 12 months!
Looked good in today's final. He really tried to hit the ball deep with extra top spin. I don't think I've even seen him play that sort of game.
I think things might start to settle down for Lleyton. His on-road marriage/family shouldn't affect him so much, and the bad publicity has past him. It looks like with solid continued matches he'll be on the rise again.
No he won't, he simply doesn't have the game to match it with the top players anymore, will be surprised if he gets past the Quaterfinal stage in any Grand Slam from now on.
Well excuse me for being optimistic. ..
Since the start of 2006 Safin has played in 26 tournaments, excluding Davis Cup. Hewitt has played 19 excluding Davis Cup. Find another excuse to hate on him.
NSWCROW
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Hewitt looked very good in the final and generally seemed a lot happier than he has in the past 18 months. While everyone agree he will never get back to number 1 (Roger is just too good) I wouldn't put it past him to be in the top 3-4 players again. The guy just has that never say die attitude that so many on the tennis circuit lack.
Vince Spadea
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2004 Monte Carlo AMS Monaco, Clay, R16 Safin 6-4 6-2
2002 Lyon France, Carpet, R16 Safin 6-3 4-6 7-6(10)
1999 AUS v RUS SF Brisbane, Australia, Grass, RR Arthurs 6-3 6-2
1998 Kitzbuehel Austria, Clay, R32 Arthurs 7-6(6) 6-4
Absolutely no chance. Based on what exactly do you think he has the ability to be top 10, top 5, let alone the best in the world except for Federer and Nadal?
LukeParkerno1
Post-Human
Since when do I hate him. He just aint as good as what he was and will never be as good as he was before the Federer era as he doesn't have the shots to do it. Playing from the baseline will not win majors for Hewitt.
The fact that there are only 2 players who seem to dominate in world tennis, Federer everywhere and Nadal on Clay.
Anywhere outside of those 2 anyone can beat anyone on their day. Ljubicic cant fire a shot when it comes to the grand slams (only shows something when indoors) and Blake (even though I am a huge fan) is in the top 5 for christ sake.
After the first 2 the players I don't see a player in the top 20 who could not make the top 5 with a bit of consistency.
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correct.
If Ley Ley can stay fit for the entire year, he's a real chance to move up in the rankings as he's not defending a lot of points, particularly in the 2nd half of the year...
As an aside, expect Nadal to come back to the pack a bit fairly soon. He's not playing anywhere near the level he was at this time last year, has a few niggling injuries & is about to defend a *****load of points in the next few months over the clay court season. Pretty soon there will be an even bigger gap between Federer and the everyone else.
Londoner86
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Good thing he's not defending any points, because he's not picking up many !
LH86
LH86
Baxter Stockman
All Australian
Come on Rock!!!
LukeParkerno1
Post-Human
Ovverated by many on here. Solidish player that gets thumped under the big hitters.
ohh Hewitt is unfortunately out of wimboldon but he is still a legend of australian tennis
