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Lleyton Hewitt

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Hewitt
  • Pronounced: LAY-ton HYOO-it
  • Age: 30 (24.02.1981)
  • Birthplace: Adelaide, Australia
  • Residence: Nassau, Bahamas
  • Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
  • Weight: 170 lbs (77 kg)
  • Plays: Right-handed
  • Turned Pro: 1998
  • Coach: Tony Roche
  • Website: www.lleytonandbechewitt.com
131 Singles Ranking
Australia

Australia

As of 30.01.2012
S D
Ranking Week Change W-L Titles Prize Money*
2012

Current

131
50 3-2 0 $126,035
Career

High

1

19.11.2001

554-206 28 $19,130,483

*Singles & Doubles combined

2012

Current

320
187 1-1 0 $126,035
Career

High

18

23.10.2000

91-63 2 $19,130,483

*Singles & Doubles combined

Full name is Lleyton Glynn Hewitt...Played Australian Rules Football until age 13, then decided to pursue tennis career...In brief junior ranks, ranked as No. 1 Aussie in 18-under division in 1996 and captured Australian National Grasscourts 18s that year...Also Australian National Hardcourts 18s champion...Enjoys golf and Australian Rules Football (Adelaide Crows fan)...His father, Glynn, is a former Aussie Rules Football player and his mother, Cherilyn, was a physical education teacher...Has one younger sister, Jaslyn (born Feb. 23, 1983), who was No. 1 junior in Australia in 2000, and won her first Challenger title in Canberra in 2004.

Good friend of fellow Aussie golfers Greg Norman and Aaron Baddeley...Supporter of many children’s charitable foundations in Australia - the Starlight Foundation and the McGuinisses-McDermott Cancer Foundation, among others...In August 2002, made Special Olympics his primary charitable cause by becoming a global ambassador for the organization with the primary mission of helping Special Olympics double their international membership by 2005 via clinics and public appearances as he travels the world; launched Special Olympics Tennis Program in Shanghai during 2002 Masters Cup; took part in Special Olympics World Summer Games in Dublin in 2003; and invites Special Olympics athletes to tennis tournaments, commercial shoots, and other personal appearances around the world.

The Australia Post launched a commemorative Lleyton Hewitt stamp in January 2002 prior to the Australian Open and in 2004 featured a Lleyton Hewitt Limited Edition post card during the Australian Open...Named Young Australian of the Year in Jan. 2003 as part of annual Australia Day honors...Vogue/GQ (Australia) Sportsman of the Year in 2003...Also named Australia’s male athlete of the year in 2002 at the Australian Sports Awards...Voted Most Popular South Australian athlete by the public for three consecutive years (2001-03)...In December 2003, Caddied for Greg Norman at Australian PGA event...Wife, Bec Cartwright (married July 21, 2005 in Sydney) is an Aussie actress...Daughters, Mia Rebecca (born Nov. 29, 2005), Ava Sydney (born Oct. 19, 2010), Son, Cruz (born Dec. 11, 2008)...

Hewitt DEUCE Feature (Aug. 2009)
Hewitt DEUCE Feature (Jan. 2012)

 

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