{"id":289402,"date":"2025-11-17T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289402\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:35:07","slug":"lleyton-hewitt-set-for-father-son-doubles-outing-at-sydney-challenger-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289402\/","title":{"rendered":"Lleyton Hewitt set for father-son doubles outing at Sydney Challenger | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Challenger<br \/>\n    Hewitt set for father-son doubles outing at Sydney Challenger<\/p>\n<p>Former World No. 1 returns for memorable partnership in Sydney, where his son is also in the singles main draw<\/p>\n<p>November 17, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/hewitt-sydney-challenger-2025-doubles-preview.jpg\" alt=\"Former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt will play doubles alongside his son Cruz Hewitt at this week's Sydney Challenger.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt will play doubles alongside his son Cruz Hewitt at this week&#8217;s Sydney Challenger.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/lleyton-hewitt\/h432\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lleyton Hewitt<\/a> will join forces with his 16-year-old son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/cruz-hewitt\/h0k0\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz Hewitt<\/a> at this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/archive\/sydney\/2817\/2025\/results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NSW Open<\/a>, an ATP Challenger Tour event in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>\nA former World No. 1 who amassed 30 tour-level titles in a storied career, Hewitt is now set for a new kind of memorable moment in this father-son outing on home soil. They will open against fellow wild cards, 19-year-old Aussies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/hayden-jones\/j0d5\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Jones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/pavle-marinkov\/m0te\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavle Marinkov<\/a>. The match time is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>\nCruz will also compete in the Sydney singles field, marking his third Challenger main-draw appearance in his young career. The teenager is No. 759 in the PIF ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>\nFans can stream all ATP Challenger Tour matches for free on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/atp-challenger-tour\/challenger-tv\" target=\"_blank\">Challenger TV<\/a>. Stay tuned to <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ATPChallenger\" target=\"_blank\">ATP Challenger Tour social media<\/a> for updates regarding when the Hewitts will play their first-round match.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Challenger Hewitt set for father-son doubles outing at Sydney Challenger Former World No. 1 returns for memorable partnership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-289402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}