Australian tennis legend Lleyton Hewitt, who was world number one in the early 2000s, came out of retirement to play a doubles tournament with his son Cruz.
The 44-year-old Hewitt was able to fulfill his dream of playing professionally alongside his 16-year-old son, who is making his first steps in the Challenger circuit and is one of the great hopes of Australian tennis.
The match, corresponding to the first round of the Sydney Challenger, ended in a convincing victory for the Hewitts, who defeated the Australian duo of Pavle Marinkov and Minkyu Song 6-1 and 6-0.
In this way, they advanced to the second round, where they will face the Australians Calum Puttergill and Dane Sweeny, according to the Argentine News Agency.
This is not the first time Hewitt has come out of retirement. The Australian played his last professional singles match at the 2016 Australian Open, where he fell in the second round to Spanish player David Ferrer.
However, he returned to the courts in 2020 to play the Australian Open as a doubles player alongside his compatriot Jordan Thompson.
Hewitt is one of the greatest legends of Australian tennis, and his resume proves it. He was world number one in 2001, 2002 and 2003, won the US Open 2001, Wimbledon 2002, and the ATP Finals in 2001 and 2002, as well as the Davis Cup in 1999 and 2003.
For much of his career, he had a very bad relationship with Argentine tennis players and even starred in several scandals, such as Juan Ignacio Chela's spit during the 2005 Australian Open or that 2005 Davis Cup series in which he won a very tense match against Guillermo Coria, although he would end up losing to David Nalbandian, who later mocked: "I think he shit a little bit".
However, in his later professional years, the relationship with the Argentines ceased to be so tense and there were no new incidents.
