| 1 | PRESENTATION |
Hewitt, Lleyton (born 1981), Australian tennis player.
Lleyton Hewitt has won 26 titles on the ATP professional tour (November 2007), including two Grand Slams and two Masters. It was also in 2001, the youngest world number one tennis history since the professional circuit (the Open era) in 1969.
| 2 YEARS OF FORMING A PRODIGY |
Born in Adelaide (South Australia) in an athletic family, Lleyton Hewitt discovered tennis at an early age. Australian football-mad he wants to kiss her career, her parents, however, soon offer the services of a personal tennis coach. Edited by Peter Smith, the game's Lleyton Hewitt takes shape, and the young prodigy obtained encouraging results against opponents older.
Lleyton Hewitt joined the professional circuit in 1998. The following year, he started in Davis Cup alongside one of his idols, Patrick Rafter. Bolstered by this positive experience in his fierce desire to succeed, he repeated the following year and won his first acclaim twice beating Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia (the world some months earlier) in the semi-final against Russia. In the final, he was beaten by Cedric Pioline, but gets the victory with his team at the expense of France.
| 3 | THE ROAD TO THE SUMMIT |
Few liked by his opponents, who questioned his temperament both angry and distant, Lleyton Hewitt continues its inexorable rise, however, "accompanied" by the media and sponsors looking for strong personalities and eager for renewal within the elite of world tennis. If its Grand Slam results are not convincing in 1999, advancing to the semi-finals of the United States the following year and won the race in 2001 against Pete Sampras, indisputable best player of the 1990s.
few months later, his powerful play and regular, based on a condition and a physical presence coupled with an outsized unwavering determination, allows him to clinch the Masters of Sydney, his victory against the French Sebastien Grosjean also offers him a place of world number one ranking ATP-2001, unique performance for a player his age and an Australian. Lleyton Hewitt opens the 2002 season with a lackluster performance at the Australian Open (first round elimination), but went on to win the Masters Series Indian Wells (USA), the International of Great Britain - it is the first Australian to win London on grass since Pat Cash in 1987 - and the Masters for the second year consecutively, thus keeping the number one spot in world rankings.
| 4 | COMPETITION AND RESISTANCE |
From the 2003 season, faced with fierce competition (embodied by American Andy Roddick, Roger Federer or Spaniard Rafael Nadal), Lleyton Hewitt manages to remain among the world's best players, but abandoned its position as number one ranking. He reached the final of the U.S. Open in 2004 and the of the Australian Open in 2005, but his presence at the highest level of Grand Slam tournaments is becoming scarcer. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, he won one tournament per season.
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