Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt paused for a moment and the word easily came to mind when he was asked how he wanted to be remembered. “Competitor,” the 41-year-old Hewitt ...

I felt, obviously, I was good enough to do.” “A lot of people that I would bump into me would say: ‘I can’t wait to see you back here in a few years.’ That was probably the only time that you actually start thinking about it.” I had Pat Rafter as our top singles player and I was playing No.2 behind him,” he said. “The fans deserved for us to give everything and go out and compete, and that’s something I prided myself on.” He was a runner-up at the Australian Open in 2005. There was no one elected for 2022, so the moment was his alone.

The Australian tennis ace, 41, was all smiles as he posed with his new gold medallion strung across his neck following his his induction ceremony event in the ...

Lleyton finished his professional career in 2016, having reached world No. 1 at age 20. He also dedicated his award to his family and fans as he saw his name alongside his fellow hall of famers for the first time in the museum Lleyton was honoured at the 2022 Induction Ceremony. He dedicated his award to his family and fans as he saw his name alongside his fellow hall of famers for the first time in the museum Australian Tennis champion Lleyton Hewitt and his wife Bec, beamed as they posed after the tennis champion was inducted into the International Hall of Fame in the US Bec, 38, looked stylish in a long blue and white dress as she posed alongside Lleyton on the tennis court at the event in the U.S. Lleyton Hewitt and his wife Bec beam as they pose with their children after the sporting champion was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in the US

“Competitor,” the 41-year-old Hewitt said in an interview with The Associated Press earlier in the day before his induction into the International Tennis Hall ...

I felt, obviously, I was good enough to do.” “A lot of people that I would bump into me would say: ‘I can’t wait to see you back here in a few years.’ That was probably the only time that you actually start thinking about it.” He was a runner-up at the Australian Open in 2005. I had Pat Rafter as our top singles player and I was playing No. 2 behind him,” he said. “The fans deserved for us to give everything and go out and compete, and that’s something I prided myself on.” There was no one elected for 2022, so the moment was his alone.

Two-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one Lleyton Hewitt was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday, ...

The Aussie icon won his first ATP title in Adelaide in 1998 and his last in 2014 at the Hall of Fame Open, defeating Ivo Karlovic. The ceremony was staged on the court where Hewitt won his first ATP grass court match as a teen in 1998. The 41-year-old from Adelaide was unable to travel to the Hall of Fame last year from Australia so his induction was postponed for a year and staged after Saturday’s ATP Hall of Fame Open semi-finals.

Aussie Legend Lleyton Hewitt was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday in Newport.

“Lleyton left an important legacy in competing for Australia and setting a standard of training and competition that every generation should look up to. During his induction speech, the Aussie tipped the Davis Cup and playing for Australia as one of his greatest achievements. “There was something special about that competition for me,” he said on Saturday. “Tennis is such an individual sport for so many months of the year. It was my way of playing AFL football but in the sport of tennis, standing side by side with your teammates, your captain, your coach, and knowing that you’re going into battle for something more important than just yourself.” “I’m forever grateful mate, because I would never have been the player or was without your guidance,” Hewitt said. The word warrior gets overused in tennis terminology, but when it comes to Lleyton Hewitt, it was an understatement.

As a child, Hewitt dreamed of playing Australian Rules Football, but tennis became his true calling.

He’s the current Davis Cup captain and hopes to add another title to his pair of victories as a player, in 1999 and 2003. “I felt like at my peak I was as physically strong as anyone on tour,” Hewitt said. Hewitt was the U.S. Open champion in 2001, the Wimbledon champion in 2002 and finished both seasons as the ATP Player of the Year. He reached two other major finals at the U.S. Open in 2004 and the Australian Open in 2005 — those arguably were his two most complete seasons on tour. “I gave 100 percent every time I stepped on the court,” Hewitt said. The moment started coming into focus for Hewitt later in his career.

Hewitt, 41, the famously combative two-time grand slam champion spent 80 weeks as world's No 1 player and is the 34th Australian player to be inducted.

“A lot of people that I would bump into me would say: ‘I can’t wait to see you back here in a few years’. That was probably the only time that you actually start thinking about it,” he said. Yet perhaps the Hewitt name may grace that trophy in the years to come – Hewitt’s twelve year old son, Cruz, is something of a tennis ace himself, winning the Australian junior tennis clay-court title in Canberra last year. It was then that the thought of being elected to the Hall flickered into his imagination as a possibility. “For me that was a really proud moment, to be standing beside all those great Australians that I always idolised.” There was no one elected for 2022, so the moment was his alone. During his career, he won 30 singles titles and was a part of two Davis Cup championship teams in 1999 and 2003.

Hewitt won the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon titles among 30 career ATP triumphs and helped Australia capture the Davis Cup in 1999 and 2003. Watch Tennis ...

The Aussie icon won his first ATP title in Adelaide in 1998 and his last in 2014 at the Hall of Fame Open, defeating Ivo Karlovic. The ceremony was staged on the court where Hewitt won his first ATP grass court match as a teen in 1998. The 41-year-old from Adelaide was unable to travel to the Hall of Fame last year from Australia so his induction was postponed for a year and staged after Saturday’s ATP Hall of Fame Open semi-finals.