{"id":296947,"date":"2025-11-20T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296947\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:45:09","slug":"returning-lleyton-hewitt-son-cruz-lose-in-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296947\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Lleyton Hewitt, son Cruz lose in quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY &#8212; Two-time Grand Slam singles champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=306\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lleyton Hewitt<\/a>&#8216;s return from retirement with his son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/15548\/cruz-hewitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz<\/a> in doubles at the New South Wales Open challenger tournament ended Thursday with a loss in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Former No. 1-ranked Hewitt, 44, who won the US Open in 2001 and Wimbledon in 2002 and retired from singles in 2016, had combined with his 16-year-old son Cruz to beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=10150\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Jones<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=13785\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavle Marinkov<\/a> 6-1, 6-0 in a match Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But the father-son team lost 7-5, 6-4 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/4030\/dane-sweeny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dane Sweeny<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=4043\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calum Puttergill<\/a> in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Lleyton Hewitt is the Davis Cup captain for Australia. Cruz Hewitt is one of three children Hewitt has with his wife, former actress Bec Hewitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY &#8212; Two-time Grand Slam singles champion Lleyton Hewitt&#8216;s return from retirement with his son Cruz in doubles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-296947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296947","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=296947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}