{"id":294806,"date":"2025-11-20T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294806\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:29:09","slug":"hewitt-father-son-duo-drops-one-game-in-sydney-challenger-debut-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294806\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewitt father-son duo drops one game in Sydney Challenger debut | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Challenger<br \/>\n    Hewitt father-son duo drops one game in Sydney Challenger debut<\/p>\n<p>Hewitts to play again Thursday<\/p>\n<p>November 19, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/hewitt-2025-.jpg\" alt=\"Lleyton Hewitt and Cruz Hewitt, pictured above at this year's Australian Open, are competing at the Sydney Challenger.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Defina\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Lleyton Hewitt and Cruz Hewitt, pictured above at this year&#8217;s Australian Open, are competing at the 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> came out of retirement Wednesday to partner 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> in doubles, and the duo made an emphatic start. The father-son team, competing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/archive\/sydney\/2817\/2025\/results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NSW Open<\/a> in Sydney, earned a convincing 6-1, 6-0 victory against 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>.<\/p>\n<p>\nNow into the quarter-finals at the ATP Challenger Tour event, Lleyton and Cruz will face another Australian team in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/calum-puttergill\/pg03\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calum Puttergill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/dane-sweeny\/s0ia\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dane Sweeny<\/a>. Lleyton and Cruz&#8217;s opening match at the hard-court event came on the 24-year anniversary of when Lleyton <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/hewitt-number-one-club-rise\" target=\"_blank\">first climbed to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings<\/a> (19 November 2001).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A day they\u2019ll never forget \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\u2728<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/lleyton-hewitt\/h432\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lleyton Hewitt<\/a> comes out of retirement to team up with his son Cruz as they cruise to a 6-1, 6-0 debut win in Sydney!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ATPChallenger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ATPChallenger<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisAustralia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TennisAustralia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e00TkW15PE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/e00TkW15PE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ATP Challenger Tour (@ATPChallenger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATPChallenger\/status\/1991093133287768233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe pair received a wild card into the Sydney Challenger, where Cruz also competed in the singles main draw and earned a victory, his second career win at that level. <\/p>\n<p>\nFans can watch the father-son team Thursday on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/atp-challenger-tour\/challenger-tv\" target=\"_blank\">Challenger TV<\/a> not before 5 p.m. local time \/ 1 a.m. ET \/ 7 a.m. CST. The stream can also be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Challenger Hewitt father-son duo drops one game in Sydney Challenger debut Hewitts to play again Thursday November 19,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-294806","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\/294806","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=294806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}