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Lleyton Hewitt uses a two-handed backhand, as shown in this photo at the Wimbledon championships, 2004.
Lleyton Hewitt (born February 24, 1981), is an Australian professional tennis player and the winner of the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles titles.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Hewitt may well have followed in the footsteps of his Australian rules football-playing father. Instead, he became the youngest winner of an ATP tournament when, as an almost unknown youngster, he won the 1998 Adelaide Invitational.
In the next two years he quickly progressed up the world rankings and was world number one for two straight years.
Hewitt's game is based primarily around his superior reaction time, fitness, motivation, and court speed. He plays a traditional baseline game: retreiving every ball, hitting shots deep, with little topspin, in an extraordinarily consistent fashion. He grinds away at his opponent, counter-punching their shots and generally wearing them down. Such a game would be expected to favour the slow clay courts of the French Open - but so far he has had only limited success on clay.
Hewitt's first grand slam tournament win was at the US Open in 2001, where he defeated five time champion Pete Sampras in straight sets. He followed this with an impressive victory at Wimbledon in 2002, showing the world that though the tournament is dominated by serve-and-volley ers, a baseliner like Hewitt could still perform at the highest level on grass.
Hewitt is known for his fierce competitiveness on the court. His big "C'mon!!" is known thoughout the tennis world. He is also big on fitness. He is known to run up sand dunes back home in Australia.
He was part of the Australian team which won the Davis Cup in 1999 and 2003, and reached the finals in 2000 and 2001. At the age of 22, he has recorded more wins in Davis Cup singles than any other Australian player.
Hewitt dated highly-ranked Belgian tennis player Kim ClijstersKim Clijsters (born on June 8, 1983) is a Belgian tennis player. On 10 august, 2003 she achieved the first rank on the WTA list, but she lost it again to fellow Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne. Has won 21 singles titles in her career so far. Two of those 2. The two announced their engagement just before Christmas 2003, but they split up recently in October 2004.
After his 2002 Wimbledon victory, Hewitt's game and his ATP ranking began to slip as he was engaged in a legal fight with the organization and began playing more Davis Cup matches instead of ATP events. Recently, however, he has reshaped his game and returned to the ATP. In 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, he completed a rare event: he became the first man in history to lose in each Grand Slam to the eventual champion. In the Australian OpenThe Australian Open tennis tournament, held annually in mid- January, is the first of the world's four Grand Slam tournaments. Originally based at the grass courts at Kooyong in the city of Melbourne's inner south-east, the tournament was in danger of fad, he was defeated in the fourth round by Swiss Roger FedererRoger Federer (born August 8, 1981, Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss professional tennis player who, in 2004, became the first man since Mats Wilander in 1988 to win three (out of four) grand slam events in the same year. Federer joined the ATP tour in 1998; in the French OpenThe French Open officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament , is a tennis event held from the middle of May to the beginning of June in Paris, France, and is the second of the world's Grand Slam tournaments. The French Open he was defeated by ArgentineArgentina is a Spanish-speaking country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast and Chile in th Gastón Gaudio in the quarterfinals; at Wimbledon, he was defeated by Roger Federer in the quarterfinals; and at the US Open, he was defeated in the finals, again by Roger Federer. Lleyton defeated Andy Roddick to advance to the final of the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, but was defeated by Roger Federer.