{"id":168967,"date":"2025-09-25T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168967\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:34:12","slug":"tennis-news-2025-glynn-hewitt-on-lleyton-ban-and-fine-for-pushing-anti-doping-volunteer-davis-cup-captain-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168967\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis news 2025, Glynn Hewitt on Lleyton ban and fine for pushing anti doping volunteer, Davis Cup captain claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

The father of Aussie tennis<\/a> great Lleyton Hewitt<\/a> has hit out at the sport’s international integrity body following his son’s controversial suspension and fine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hewitt, a former world No.1 who won two singles grand slams during a glittering career, has been banned for two weeks and fined $30,000 by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).<\/p>\n

He was punished for an incident with an anti-doping volunteer during a tournament last year, when Hewitt is alleged to have shoved the 60-year-old man as he walked through a tunnel.<\/p>\n

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Hewitt claims he didn’t know who the man was, and was trying to prevent him from touching him as the 44-year-old was recovering from abdominal surgery.<\/p>\n

The ITIA handed down the ban due to Hewitt’s “poor disciplinary record, including five prior incidents of offensive conduct towards tennis officials and non-compliance with tennis rules”.<\/p>\n

Hewitt was allowed to captain Australia at the Davis Cup in Sydney earlier this month, but his suspension officially began on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"Lleyton<\/p>\n

Lleyton Hewitt with his Wimbledon trophy alongside parents Cherilyn and Glynn.\u00a0Bongarts\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

During a press event at the Davis Cup he flagged an appeal over the sanction, although that has been dropped.<\/p>\n

But his father, Glynn, has now released a fiery statement through law firm WRP Legal.<\/p>\n

“The ITF is a member of the ITIA, has representation on its board, requested attendance at the ‘independent’ tribunal and supplied witnesses for them,” Glynn said.<\/p>\n

“It is well known that the ITF have been unhappy with Lleyton’s criticism of their management of the Davis Cup competition.<\/p>\n

“From selling the rights to the company of a soccer player (Gerard Pique), completely changing the format, to them entering into an arrangement which allowed the company out of the deal.<\/p>\n

“Their conduct changed the Davis Cup, built up over 100 years, to a shambolic example of its former self.<\/p>\n

\"Lleyton<\/p>\n

Lleyton Hewitt at a Davis Cup press conference at Ken Rosewall Arena in Sydney.\u00a0SMH<\/p>\n

“The ITIA’s sole objective was to have Lleyton banned from performing his role as Davis Cup captain and to that extent they failed.<\/p>\n

“It was decided not to appeal as there was a total lack of trust in the process that had been experienced to date and it would be tantamount to having the ITIA mark their own homework.<\/p>\n

“We also expressed a desire that should any fines eventuate that they go to the Ken McGregor Tennis Foundation for junior players. This request was not taken up by the ITIA.”<\/p>\n

In a statement to News Corp, the integrity body said it would only “urge people to read the full decision, which is available on the ITIA website”.<\/p>\n

In a separate statement through WRP Legal a fortnight ago<\/a>, the younger Hewitt claimed “manipulated video evidence” was used in the case against him.<\/p>\n

Team Australia lost its Davis Cup tie to Belgium in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of Aussie tennis great Lleyton Hewitt has hit out at the sport’s international integrity body following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-168967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}