Carlos Alcaraz hopes to avoid creating unwanted history when he begins his Wimbledon title defence
Carlos Alcaraz is set to begin his Wimbledon title defence with a Round One clash against Fabio Fognini on Monday. Coming off the back of…
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Roger Federer shunned Wimbledon when naming the best match of his career, he called it ‘perfect’
Roger Federer named a left-field choice for the favourite performance of his illustrious career, and he surprisingly didn’t pick a Wimbledon match. Roger Federer won…
Lleyton Hewitt, and words to make a retiring Aussie ‘pretty emotional’
Where to begin with a player who, by the sheer force of his work ethic and fighting spirit, turned Australia into his biggest fan, and…
Australian Open 2016: Ferrer sends idol Hewitt on his way in battle of big hearts
It must come as a surprise to many tennis fans that, with a combined age of 67, a combined 34 years on the pro tour,…
Davis Cup 2015: Will Lleyton Hewitt be Australia’s catalyst in his final year?
The Aussies may be playing a long way from home, but they could not look happier, hungrier or more united in a cause on their…
US Open 2015: Friendly rivals Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer go their separate ways
As day turned to night over Flushing Meadows, those fortunate enough to get a seat on that most intimate of show courts, Grandstand, would find…
Wimbledon 2015: Lleyton Hewitt and Nicolas Mahut join British wild cards
2002 Wimbledon champion and four-time Queen’s champion Lleyton Hewitt, who at the age of 34 is bowing out of professional tennis this year, has been…
Queen’s 2015: Lleyton Hewitt’s fond farewell
This most historic of tennis venues, the Queen’s Club in the heart of well-heeled Kensington, was about to bring down the curtain on one of…
Grass Class feature: Federer, Murray, and Hewitt lead the green party
With a quarter-final run on the clay of Roland Garros in his rear-view mirror, Roger Federer summed up on Twitter his pleasure at what lay…
Australian Open 2015: From Hewitt to Kokkinakis, the home stars thrill
Lleyton Hewitt may not be the oldest man in the Australian Open singles draw: that honour goes to Ivo Karlovic. But at six months older…
Australian Open 2015: Federer, Williams and more facts and figures
The No1 ranking for both men and women is up for grabs at the first Grand Slam of the year in Australia. Roger Federer could…
US Open 2014: Verdasco’s 400th win just one more shout for over-30s
It has been hard to avoid the news that Roger Federer is marching through his 30s, that talk of the ‘R’ word has come and…
Wimbledon 2014: Grigor Dimitrov leads the way for class of the 1990s
At every turn in the last couple of years, there have been men of a certain age proving that turning 30 is no barrier to…
Queen’s 2014: James Ward and Dan Evans join Lleyton Hewitt in round two
While British No1 and world No5 Andy Murray has, not surprisingly, been the one making headlines at Queen’s Club ahead of his Aegon Championship title…
Miami Masters 2014: Hewitt & Tomic make contrasting Aussie headlines
It’s more than a dozen years since a pugnacious, bristling, in-your-face young Australian named Lleyton Hewitt, aged just 20, became tennis’s youngest No1 player. He…
Australian Open 2014: Heroic Hewitt leaves baking stage to Nadal & Federer
The opening day of the Australian Open had set very fair to showcase the bottom half of the men’s draw. It was headlined, of course,…
Australian Open 2014: Double the fun for British teams & Hewitt-Rafter
Andy Murray may have stolen the British tennis limelight since the golden summer of 2012: A Wimbledon final, two Olympic medals and a US Open…
Lleyton Hewitt beats Roger Federer in Brisbane to win first title since 2010
When it came to the last match of 2014 on Brisbane’s ‘Pat Rafter’ court, just a week before the start of the Australian Open, it…
2013’s tennis best bits: Murray, Hewitt, Dimitrov thrill in 3 continents
The latest in our review of the 2013 tennis season looks at the most compelling matches. The selection attempts to balance entertainment, drama and special…
US Open 2013: Youzhny & Hewitt drama puts Djokovic in the shade
It’s that stage of a Grand Slam when the devoted tennis fan needs at least four sets of eyes and a very sharp brain to…
US Open 2013: Heroic Hewitt survives battle of former champions
It was a surprise, but at the same time should have been no surprise at all. Amid all the big names playing for their place…