Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt AMis an Australian former world no. 1 professional tennis player...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth24 February 1981
CityAdelaide, Australia
CountryAustralia
hopefully pay work
This is what you do your off-season work for and hopefully this is going to pay off.
boys extremely given good opportunity
The boys did extremely well over there, they've given us a good opportunity to get through to a semi again.
four majors olympics sydney
The big thing is when we had the Sydney Olympics in 2000, it was after all the four majors had been played,
body cheap surface tough
This is a tough surface on your body and we're not big servers so there's not a lot of cheap points.
beats hell winning
This beats the hell out of winning the U.S.Open and Wimbledon.
region tennis took week
I think the way that the whole region really took to tennis in that week was pretty amazing.
clean games opportunity service trying wait
I was just trying to clean up my service games and wait for an opportunity -- and I got it,
bit felt sluggish step struggling
I was just struggling a little bit with my movement. Just felt a step slower, a bit sluggish out there.
grind hang hopefully pick prettiest tough
He's a tough player, especially on this kind of surface. I just had to hang in there, try and grind him down. It wasn't the prettiest tennis, hopefully I can pick up on it.
against ball competitor errors flashy game hit shots took tough weapons
He's a tough competitor out there. He's got a lot of flashy shots and a lot of weapons out there. I'd never hit a ball against him, so it took me a while to get in and read his game a little bit...I thought he'd make a lot more errors than he did.
easy incredible last pressure year
He's going to have a lot more pressure on him as well this year to try and back up what an incredible year he had last year. That's not going to be an easy thing for him to do.
step
He's going to be tough. I'll have to step it up again.
easy great matches three win
There aren't going to be any easy matches, but it would be great to win here. I still have three matches away from there.
felt great
Physically, I felt great out there. He didn't put me under that much pressure.