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Lleyton Glynn Hewitt AM (born 24 February 1981) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. He is the most recent Australian man to win a major singles title, at the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon Championships .
This is a list of the main career statistics of Australian tennis player, Lleyton Hewitt. To date, Hewitt has won thirty ATP singles titles including two grand slam singles titles, two ATP Masters 1000 singles titles and two year-ending championships. He was also the runner-up at the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, 2004 US Open and 2005 Australian Open.
Hewitt was born in Sydney, Australia on 11 December 2008 at the Royal North Shore Hospital. [3] His father, Lleyton, is a former professional tennis player who reached the world number one ranking and won multiple Grand Slams throughout his career [4] and his mother, Bec, was an actress and singer best known for her role on the soap opera Home and Away. [5]
The ‘Hewitt’ name is synonymous with tennis in Australia, and now there’s a new kid on the block ahead of the opening grand slam of the year in Melbourne. Almost 20 years on from Lleyton ...
The 2001 US Open was held between August 27 – September 9, 2001. It was the final Grand Slam event of 2001.. Marat Safin was unsuccessful in his title defence, being defeated in the semifinals by Pete Sampras in a rematch of the 2000 final, while Venus Williams was successful in her title defense, beating her sister Serena in the women's final. 20-year-old Australian Lleyton Hewitt won the ...
Defending champion Lleyton Hewitt defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final, 7–5, 7–5, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 2002 Tennis Masters Cup. [1] With the victory, Hewitt secured the year-end number 1 ranking for the second successive year, becoming one of only seven men (at the time) to achieve this feat. [2]
Marat Safin defeated Lleyton Hewitt in the final, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2005 Australian Open. It was his first Australian Open title (following two runner-up finishes in 2002 and 2004) and second and last major title overall, having previously won the 2000 US Open.
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt resigned from the Washington Post after feuding Friday with two of the newspaper’s liberal columnists during a live talk show — calling it “the most ...