Like father, like son

Like father, like son

Photo: robbiesaurus from Smithtown, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons When Cruz Hewitt walked onto Court 1 at Wimbledon for the Boys’ Singles final last weekend, it felt like a full-circle moment. The son of former world No. 1 and 2002 Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt was now playing for a junior title at the very tournament where his father once stood on top of the tennis world.  Naturally, much of the discussion beforehand centred …

Lleyton and Bec Hewitt family in crisis as Cruz's historic moment snubbed by sister

Lleyton and Bec’s Hewitt‘s eldest son, Cruz Hewitt, has competed in the biggest match of his young career, giving his all in the Wimbledon boys final, but it was the action off the tennis court that has left the Hewitt family in crisis. It’s been 24 years since his father, tennis legend Lleyton Hewitt, won the Wimbledon men’s singles title, and 17-year-old Cruz has followed in his dad’s iconic footsteps as the first Australian to make the final …