Lleyton Hewitt on retirement: “I'd say I'll be back again” – Tennis News
Former world number one, Lleyton Hewitt, has no plans of quitting the world of tennis at the moment despite so many injuries surrounding him in the past couple of years. He believes that there is still time in his retirement and
his body is capable to take a lot more toll. The Aussie superstar is making plans to take part in the Australian Open 2014 already; the tournament that is more than a year away. It clears the air and answers the question in the mind of a lot tennis fanatics
who though that this would be the last season for the 82nd ranked Aussie superstar who will turn 32 years old on the 24th February next year.
Hewitt has a record of 17-16 this season and that wasn’t too different than the previous year which yielded 14 wins and 12 losses for the Aussie tennis superstar. He started the season in the Hopman Cup at Perth and suffered two
defeats before dumping Di Wu of China. Victor Troicki of Serbia who was the fifth seed in the Apia Sydney International dispatched the wildcard entrant in the opening round but the Aussie tennis ace made a strong statement in the Australian Open at Melbourne;
beating Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, Andy Roddick and Milos Raonic in the first three battles before bowing out to the reigning world number one, Novak Djokovic, who also dropped a set in his four-setter victory.
Answering a question about his retirement, Hewitt said, “I would seriously doubt it. I'd say I'll be back again. I'm playing all next year and I can't see me stopping at the Paris Indoors when there's an Australian Open a month
later. I'd put everything (on it) ... unless I have a major injury. But right at the moment, this won't be my last (season). I'm still hungry to go out there and do the hard work. When you've bounced back from five surgeries in the last four years, mentally
I feel pretty fresh."
In the French Open, AEGON Championships and Wimbledon, Hewitt failed to win a single match but did extremely well in the Campbell’s Tennis Championships at Newport; reached the final of the contest having started it as a wildcard
entrant. However, the American number one, John Isner, proved a bit too tough for the Aussie star and that ended Hewitt’s dreams of clinching a title in 2012. Two victories apiece in London Olympics and US Open also helped him to make strong statement.
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