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| How many players on the ATP have actually played for 10 years or more? Does anyone know? What is scary is how Fed is already up to 47! |
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| I think it shows just how Lleyton is travelling when people are pushing/barracking/hoping that little Ley ley can get back into the top 10. Gee, that's only 10 spots down from where he was ranked for two years, not so long ago. Yep, Ley Ley shouldn't have any troubles at all getting back into top 10, maybe to 3rd - 5th. But lets be honest here - he'll still be miles behind the Fed Ex! |
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| Lleyton is now the only player on the ATP Tour to have won at least one title a season for 10 straight years. His 26th career title elevates Hewitt to equal 23rd alongside Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov on the all-time list of tournament winners. Among active players, only Federer, with 47 titles, has accrued more silverware. http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=57 |
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| As of yesterday after all tournaments were complete - Lleyton is at no.20. Only four people have played the same or less tournaments than him in the top 20. Federer/Nadal/Nalbandian/ Gonazales. BTW its only 1 - 2 games difference. The others have played up to 11 more tournaments than Lleyton. So if he stays injury free, he should achieve his goal of top 10 by the end of the French open. Here's hoping. Good luck Lleyton...keep fighting! |
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| Just a few of the names in the tournament for you.... James Blake Marat Safin Jurgen Melzer Tim Henman Vincent Spadea Thomas Johansson And here is the top 20 in Dubai: Player Name Nat. Roger Federer SUI Rafael Nadal ESP Nikolay Davydenko RUS Tommy Robredo ESP Tommy Haas GER Tomas Berdych CZE Novak Djokovic SRB David Ferrer ESP Marcos Baghdatis CYP Mikhail Youzhny RUS Jarkko Nieminen FIN Dominik Hrbaty SVK (WC)Radek Stepanek CZE Robin Soderling SWE Olivier Rochus BEL Jonas Bjorkman SWE Marc Gicquel FRA Gilles Simon FRA Hyung-Taik Lee KOR Kristof Vliegen BEL So apart from the top few, not to much to write home about either! |
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| As I stated on my first post: Small steps. Getting back into the top 20 (unless he's there now), then top 15, and so on... and a tourney's a tourney. Why complain about it? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [And according to news stories the first one to onject to put Blake back into the game was Hewitt.....] soul4u...please reference the news stories that you are talking about. I didnt see them and would be interested to read them. |
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| Actually he beat Marat Safin n the Semi-finals! But maybe you haven't heard of him....you know the guy that won the Aus open a few years ago. Top 10 player. Anyway all this thread is about is Lleyton on his "way" back to the top 10. That's all. And i think it is fair enough seeing that this is a tennis forum. Get it? Lleyton, Tennis, the fact that he said at the start of the year that he wants to be back in the top 10 this year. |
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| and who played in that tournament? All the "BIG" ones were playing somewhere else except for Blake who was unfortunate to be eliminated by the round robin fiasco . And according to news stories the first one to onject to put Blake back into the game was Hewitt..... I wonder why? Too scared maybe? Coz he knows that Blake has improved a lot more in the past year whereas he was plagued by his so called "INJURIES" that is when he loses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yeah the tournament he won wasnt the US OPEN,just a little backwater comp.Win another GRAND SLAM event and maybe then we will all get as excited as some. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| He won just one tournament and he is back in the top ten? Isn't it a bit too early to be glorifying Hewitt? I mean how many other players have emerged eversince he has gone down? And I think he won by chance coz Blake got kicked out by the stupid round robin rules. Anyway he still has a long way to go and maybe who knows when he starts losing in the next tournament he will come up with another injury, probably this time in his brain. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Just asking what has Hewitt done to deserve CREDIT.Statsy always gives it to Choc and he is a far more caring human being than LIL LEYTON | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hewitt has only won this 1 tournament and people are saying he will be back into top 10.HA even a broken watch is right twice a day.Lets see how long it takes to win another one,before getting all carried away. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| haha, they are bnack from hiding anyway soon they will disappear again. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt beat Austrian Juergen Melzer 6-4 7-6 to win the Las Vegas Open on Sunday, his first tournament victory in eight months. The Australian came back from 4-1 down in the second set and saved four set points before winning an epic tiebreak to clinch his 26th career title, making amends for his defeat by American James Blake in the final 12 months ago. Melzer broke in the second game and held the advantage until 4-2 when a series of errors allowed Hewitt to get back on serve. The second seed saved a set point at 5-6 with a solid smash and three more in the tiebreak as he recovered from 6-4 down to win it 12-10 on his fourth match point when Melzer netted a forehand. Hewitt became only the second man, after American Andre Agassi, to win the Las Vegas title three times and he has now won an ATP Tour event in each of his 10 years as a professional. Well done Hewitt!. Lets hope this is the start of a good run back up the rankings. |
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| you were checking out livescore? Same! I guess now the Hewitt curse thread can be deleted...LOL LETS GO LEY LEY LETS GO!! (clap clap) That should help the rankings points a little. |
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| Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6 7(12) L. Hewitt won in 2 sets Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 4 6(10) Success! Ruddy long tiebreak, I thought the website was having issues. |
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| Lleyton has won the first set, and is at 5 all in the second. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 20 first (I heard he went outside that), then top 15, then top 10. Take them by steps. He has a long way to go, I think. But yeah, good luck to the guy. He has a good chance to actually win a tourney for the first time in ages. |
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| If he is good enough. Good luck to him. |
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| LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) - Second-seeded Australian Lleyton Hewitt will take on Austrian Jurgen Melzer in the final of the 416,000-dollar ATP tournament here after a semi-final win over Marat Safin. Hewitt must have played some great tennis to win the battle of the former world number ones 7-5, 6-1. The victory gives Hewitt a chance to improve on his performance here last year, when he lost to American James Blake in the final. Ley Ley has vowed to get back in the top 10 this year, and lets hope that he has no injury woes this year as he endeavours to do so. Good Luck!! |
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