100 zwycięstw na trawie L.Hewitta!

Wczorajsze zwycięstwo nad Korolevem, w 2 rundzie Wimbledonu 2010 to było setny wygrany mecz przez Australijczyka na trawie. Jako pierwszy z wciąż grających graczy Rusty tej sztuki dokonał.

Najwięcej wygranych spotkań na trawie (aktywni gracze):
1. Lleyton Hewitt - 100
2. Roger Federer - 98
3. Andy Roddick - 81
4. Rafael Nadal - 33

Wimbledon 2010 - wywiad po zwycięstwie w 3 rundzie

Q. Can you sum it up, please, Lleyton.

LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, it was always going to be a tough match. You know, he's flashy, like most French guys. He's got a lot of firepower out there.

Yeah, he moves well. Obviously grass takes away a little bit of his movement, his best movement, I think.

But in terms of, yeah, his serve, he hits all the spots extremely well. So that's what makes it tough on a grass court. And I felt like I played well out there today. I played smart tennis.

Q. What's the best part about your game at the moment?

LLEYTON HEWITT: A little bit of everything. I served well for two sets today. Third set I didn't serve as well, but I didn't need to as much. But the first two sets I served extremely well. I took my chances. What Heals and I planned, I executed to perfection the first couple of sets. That was the pleasing part so far.

Every match is different, but today was a step up in class, and I rose for it.

Q. Second week, this is where you always wanted to be?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Absolutely. It's about surviving the first week, giving yourself a chance. Gets tougher now. Step up in class again against a top‑four opponent. Now see what happens.

Q. How do you feel about the shape you're in, the form you're in now, compared to the last few years at this stage?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, well, I feel good at the moment. Obviously, yeah, I've had a couple of rough times just with hips and feeling ‑‑ yeah, the first hip I played with when it wasn't even close to a hundred percent for quite a while. Yeah, it got to the stage I wanted to play Wimbledon, about a couple months after that I ended up having to have surgery. Yeah, that was frustrating, playing with that.

But, yeah, I'm probably more surprised how well I've been able to bounce back from the last couple of surgeries to how I'm moving and feeling physically, able to bounce back day after day at the moment, which is pleasing.

Q. Would this be the best look at this point at the weekend?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Oh, every slam's different purely on the fact of it depends the matches and the time you spend on court. Right at the moment I'm feeling pretty good. My body's feeling good, which is a great thing. The hip's not a problem at all. Yeah, that's a huge positive.

Q. Perhaps the best for four or five years?

LLEYTON HEWITT: As I said, it's hard, purely because sometimes you survive a five‑setter or something in the first couple of matches, but that can wear on you a little bit. Yeah, right at the moment, you know, I've done everything I've needed to do.

Q. Were you especially pleased to stay in that tiebreak after you had a couple of fluffy forehands, to keep your focus and get through? I think that would have given him a big lift.

LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, it was a big set to get out of for me, one, because I felt like I had pretty much dominated the whole set. I didn't give him any chances on my service game whatsoever. I was the only one that had any chances.

I felt like I was, you know, getting into his service games, but he came up with some big serves at the right times when he needed to.

The breaker, it was a little bit of everything. But that's Monfils. You know, he'll come out and play a couple of blinding shots, and then he'll come and give you a couple of double‑faults.

It's not an easy person to play against because he doesn't give you that rhythm and you don't know what's going to happen.

Q. Can you talk about the Djokovic match, what you expect, what you'll need to do?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, I haven't even thought about it yet. So, yeah, obviously get a couple days off now. So today we'll just enjoy getting through and being in the second week.

But, yeah, he's a quality opponent. As I said, it's another step up. You know, go out there. If I go out there the way that I've been playing and hitting the ball, I can give him a run for his money.

Q. How do you rate him as a grass courter, specifically?

LLEYTON HEWITT: He's been a little bit up and down over the years. I played him at Queen's once the year that he made the final against Rafa at Queen's. I thought he played bloody well on grass that year in particular.

Then he came and lost to Safin second round I think here at Wimbledon, which was surprising. So he's been a little bit up and down on grass.

Q. Obviously our sport has three really distinct surfaces. Between clay, hard, grass, which surface do you think demands the most of an athlete?

LLEYTON HEWITT: I don't know. It's a tough question. You know, grass, you know, obviously it's an all‑court game. It's a lot harder on your body than people think, I think, purely because the ball is staying so low on a grass court. Sometimes it takes it out of your legs on a grass court.

With the clay, it's sliding. A bloody tough surface. But in terms of purely because of the rallies are more longer, that's the toughest part about clay.

Hard court, that's tough on your body just purely because of the jolting around on a hard surface.

So I can't pinpoint one.

Q. What did you make of Isner‑Mahut? You're a guy who has been around for a long time. Staying out there for 11 hours.

LLEYTON HEWITT: My matches wouldn't go that long. I'd either break or lose serve.

Q. What did you make of it?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Well, it's amazing. You know, like everyone said before me, it's incredible, to think that both guys can serve that well and not play a couple of loose points.

I saw a little bit of it at patches, but you have to take your hat off to Mahut to be diving around. You know, he looked fresh as a daisy. Obviously, it was telling on John today, you know, to try and bounce back from that ‑ not only physically but emotionally, too, mentally. It would never have been easy for him today.

Q. You're one of the most intense players in our game. After winning the tiebreak, you were doing the fist pumps multiple times. How do you think the fire in your belly is now compared to six, seven years ago when you were a good bit younger?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, I think it's still the same.

Q. Why is that?

LLEYTON HEWITT: That's who I am. You can't buy that. You know, that's my personality coming out on the court. Yeah, I've always played with my heart on my sleeve.

Doesn't matter what the situation. If I'm up for the fight, then, you know, it's going to show at the right times, I think. It's not something you premeditate before you go out there to play.

Q. You're known for your wheels, a lot of things. But is that your greatest strength as a player?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, I'm not sure. I'd like to think that I've got a few strengths, not just one.

Q. But where does your will to win come in?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Oh, it's obviously up there. Wins a lot of matches for me. Yeah, I'd rather have it than not have it, that's for sure.

Q. Did you feel today that your performance went a long way to justifying the Club's decision to give you the boost in seeding?

LLEYTON HEWITT: No, I didn't even think about that at all. Yeah, in terms of seedings, they have their own formula. It's not actually the Club choosing where you go, which I think a lot of people write up, which is wrong. They actually have a formula that they use every year.

Whether it's right or not, that's everyone's opinion. But they go by the rule that they set. It's not the same as when I first came on the tour and they just pick and choose where people would go.

Q. Apart from playing Novak at the Australian Open after you played Baghdatis in that dusk‑to‑dawn match, how has Novak hurt you in the past when he's beaten you?

LLEYTON HEWITT: He moves exceptional. He's a great mover on the court. He's a great athlete. He's very solid from both sides of the court. Yeah, good first serve. Yeah, he's an all‑around player. He can slice, as well.

But, yeah, I think he can attack and defend extremely well. You know, when he won the Australian Open, that was probably his biggest asset. He was serving well, but he was attacking and defending well.

Q. What plans for the weekend? Going to get away from tennis at all?

LLEYTON HEWITT: No, nothing. Still got to stay in the moment. Nothing different to any other off days.

Q. Looking to the match against Djokovic, do you see Monday's match, being in the form you're in, you beat Roger two weeks ago, playing on your favorite surface, do you see this match as being one of your best chances in probably the last three or four years of beating a top‑four player in a real billing Grand Slam match?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Yeah, I don't know. I always go out there and give myself a chance. I guess, you know, in the pecking order here, out of the top four guys, Novak is probably the fourth out of those top‑four guys on grass right at the moment.

But Roger and Rafa are the two main guys. I'm going to go out there and take it to him and see what I've got.

Q. In another event, Australia had a good result against Serbia. Is that going to give you a huge jolt of confidence in your matchup with Novak?

LLEYTON HEWITT: Not really. It was a good result, but it wasn't good enough, you know.

Q. Did you give him a little bit of a hard time about that?

LLEYTON HEWITT: No, no. I think I made one comment. They were shattered, him and Zimonjic, in the locker room. They expected us to tank.

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Hewitt still has hopes for Wimbledon

By the time he returns to Wimbledon next summer aged 30, Lleyton Hewitt belive he will still have his chances to win a second title.

The Aussie took the trophy in 2002, he exited at this just-completed edition in the fourth round to Novak Djokovic.

But that defeat does not dent the legendary Hewitt confidence. "I'd much rather be in my position of coming back at 30 and won it before than never have won it and trying to win your first one," he said. "I'll come back, give 100 per cent and see what happens. That's the upside."

Hewitt had given himself a chance at Wimbledon by winning the grass-court Halle title in Germany last month over Roger Federer. The six-time champion Swiss was eliminated in the Wimbledon quarter-finals by Tomas Berdych, who later put out Djokovic.

Hewitt's summer schedule on hardcourt will be full-on, with entries at Atlanta, Washington, Montreal and Cincinnati before the US Open in New York.

"I need a little bit of luck always," admitted the optimistic Aussie. "If things fall my way, there are a lot of positives to take out of this. My body is standing up well, I can compete with the top guys at this level."

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Aussie tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt loses battle for 'come on' catchcry

TENNIS star Lleyton Hewitt has lost a legal battle over his famous "come on" catchcry.

Lleyton Hewitt Marketing failed to remove a trademark owned by Brisbane man John Sheils which consisted of the words "come on" accompanied by a fist-pumping gesture.

Mr Sheils said he designed the mark with his two daughters and registered it in 2004 with the intention of creating a mark "representative of all Australian sports people."

But Hewitt's team argued the words and fist pump were associated with the tennis star in the eyes of the public.

Hewitt, 29, is not the only tennis player known for the "come on" shout. Maria Sharapova is also known to utter the phrase, accompanied by a fist pump, when she wins a point.

But Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal prefers to scream "vamos," which means "let's go."

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Atlanta Open

No. 3 seed Lleyton Hewitt of Australia lost the late match 4-6, 2-6 to Lukas Lacko of Slovakia.

Hewitt blamed an injury, which he refused to disclose, with keeping him from playing at full capacity. He acknowledged, however, that the injury occurred before he arrived in Atlanta.

"On Sunday, I didn't think I'd be able to compete here," Hewitt said. "For me, it was a good effort by the medical staff to be able to get me close to being 100 per cent here."

Hewitt keeping his injury secret to himself

Lleyton Hewitt seems to have taken a page from the Serena Williams playbook on "secrets," with the Australian refusing to reveal the nature of an injury which he blames for a defeat in Atlanta.

The third seed was dumped out in the second round showing some discomfort by Slovak Lukas Lacko in quick straight sets to start his hardcourt summer off on a low note.

But the 29-year-old Hewitt, who underwent his second hip surgery only last January, would only say he couldn't play at his full potential on the night. He did say he had the problem before arriving in Atlanta for the event which begins the run to next month's start at the US Open.

"On Sunday, I didn't think I'd be able to compete here," said the 2001 Open champion, now ranked 30th. "It was a good effort by the medical staff to be able to get me close to being 100 percent here."

Hewitt, now based in the Bahamas, had the whole team on had in the steaming hot southern city. His traveling party not only included wife Bec Cartwright, pregnant with the couple's third child, but the couple's two children as well as Hewitt's parents, at one-time constant fixtures when their son ruled the sport a decade ago.

Hewitt may not be changing his original playing plan, which was to include time off next week followed by the Washington event from August 2. He also hopes to play the Toronto and Cincinnati Masters prior to the August 30 start of the Open in New York.

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Hewitt bez trenera

Nathan Healey zrezygnował z posady trenera Lleytona Hewitta. Szkoleniowie mieszka ze swoją rodizną w Philadeplphii i potrzebą spędzania większej ilości zasu z najbliższymi tłumaczy decyzję o rozstaniu ze sztabem najlepszego australijskiego tenisisty ostatnich lat.

Lleyton Hewitt coach Nathan Healey quits

LLEYTON Hewitt is unlikely to appoint a new full-time coach until next season following the surprise resignation of Nathan Healey.
Hewitt will rely on the input of former player Brett Smith at the US Open on Monday after Healey's decision to quit because of family reasons.

Smith is the son of Hewitt's first coach Peter Smith.

Healey lives in Philadephia with his wife Marnie and the couple's young child.  The New South Welshman has recently expressed a desire to spend more time at home.

He is understood to grown tired of life on the road and quit two weeks ago.

Healey worked as Hewitt's coach after being appointed to replace in August, 2009.

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Hewitt out for three weeks with hand surgery

Lleyton Hewitt will miss up to three weeks of autumn ATP play as he heals a hand injury suffered in a Davis Cup tie last weekend.

Australian captain John Fitzgerald said his national No. 1 player hurt himself in the weekend doubles rubber against Belgium in the relegation play after winning his day one singles match.

"Lleyton has a strain in the back of his hand close to his wrist - it was painful," said the skipper. "He sustained it late in the second set. The doc says he will need three weeks to get over it."

The diagnosis could endanger what had been planned as a full schedule of indoor play for the world No. 36.

Hewitt had been hoping to compete in Tokyo sarting in a fortnight and at the Shanghai Masters 1000 next month. The 29-year-old has performed indifferently since a Wimbledon fourth-round appearance against Novak Djokovic, losing in the first round of the US Open to Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu after winning just one summer hardcourt match in North America.

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Hand injury puts Lleyton Hewitt out of Malaysia, Japan, Shanghai titles

LLEYTON Hewitt faces an uphill battle to recover from ligament damage in his right hand.

Hewitt, 29, has withdrawn from the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur.

He will struggle to be fit for the Japan Open in Tokyo and the Shanghai Masters next month.

"The injury is a week-to-week proposition," Hewitt's manager David Drysdale said.

"The only real remedy is rest so we'll have to see how the injury progresses in regard to Tokyo and Shanghai."

There is a chance Hewitt might not play again this season.

The former world champion suffered the injury while winning his opening singles match in the doomed world group qualifying match with Belgium in Cairns last week.

The South Australian's absence from the reverse singles saw Australia plummet to a humbling 2-3 defeat to competition minnow Belgium.

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Hewitt could shake up his start to 2011 season

Lleyton Hewitt may be considering a change in his longtime January schedule, with the 29-year-old possibly skipping an old reliable Aussie tune-up event to start the 2011 season.

The Hewitt camp has been on hold as the main man heals from a hand injury which he suffered in Australia's Davis Cup loss last month in relegation play to Belgium in Cairns. The problem forced Hewitt to skip the Asian swing of the ATP, which wraps up next week with the Shanghai Masters.

After spats in the past - now healed - with the Hopman Cup in Perth, Hewitt has often followed up that event with a place in Sydney on the ATP the week prior to the Australian Open. But his progress has been halted in the quarter-finals in three of his last four appearances.

With two hip surgeries in his medical record, the former No. 1 must now try and pace his game as the fiery little man in a new world of big guns.

The only sure date for next season is Hewitt's third consecutive appearance at the eight-nation Hopman Cup from January 1 along with Alica Molik on the Aussie team. He could then well choose to break with old habits and play in the Kooyong exhibition in Melbourne in the run-up to the January 17 start of the Open.

That special event is where Hewitt got his start as a raw teenager in 1998, beating Andre Agassi in the semis before going on win the title.

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