Lleyton Hewitt (born February 24, 1981, , , Australia) is an Australian professional player whose astonishing court speed, fierce determination, and unrelenting ground strokes allowed him to capture victories at both the (2001) and (2002).Hewitt was born into an exceedingly athletic family; his father, uncle, and grandfather distinguished themselves as players in , and his mother was a teacher who played . Hewitt played Australian rules football until he was 13, when he dedicated himself to tennis. He became the leading Australian junior tennis player in 1996. Two years later he secured his first professional singles title. By the end of 1999, he had advanced to number 22 in the world and had helped to win the . He concluded 2000 ranked seventh in the world after having swept 61 of the 80 matches he contested that season, establishing himself as the first teenager since in 1990 to garner four singles titles in a year.In 2001 Hewitt was the most prolific winner on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) circuit, claiming 80 match victories and becoming the youngest man to have finished a year at number one since the official ATP world rankings were introduced in 1973. Hewitt defeated Sampras to win the 2001 U.S. Open, his first Grand Slam title. Ten months later Hewitt excelled on the grass courts at the All-England Club and ousted David Nalbandian to win the 2002 Wimbledon tournament. Hewitt failed to retain his U.S. Open title that year, however, losing to in the semifinals. In 2003 he was a member of the Davis Cup-winning Australian team for a second time. Though he failed to capture any Grand Slam titles in the ensuing years, he did advance to the finals in both the 2004 U.S. Open and the 2005 ., Lleyton Gylnn Hewitt, né le 24 février 1981 à Adélaïde, est un joueur de tennis australien. Professionnel de 1998 à 2016, il a remporté 30 titres en simple sur le circuit ATP, dont l' US Open en 2001, Wimbledon en 2002 ainsi que les Masters lors de ces deux saisons., Official tennis player profile of Lleyton Hewitt on the ATP Tour. Featuring news, bio, rankings, playing activity, coach, stats, win-loss, points breakdown, videos, and more..