TAG: Hewitt’s last hurrah thrills Wimbledon
Jun/15
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Hewitt Heroic in Final Wimbledon Match
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We couldn't have expected anything less. Lleyton Hewitt delivered another dramatic marathon five setter at his seventeenth and final Wimbledon, somehow surviving a bagel in the fourth set to rally back in the fifth, actually breaking Jarkko Nieminen three times but squandering each advantage with shaky service games, then somehow later managing to survive three match points. The battle raged on at the packed and energized court two for another half hour with some fantastic tennis.
As the fifth set wore on, Hewitt steeled himself for one last push on these hallowed grass courts of Wimbledon and he summoned every ounce of his fighting spirit, fueled also by the energy of about 30 yellow and green clad Fanatics, who Cliff Drysdale said sound like over a hundred. Continue to read full article...
