Nov 20, 2025, 06:03 AM ET<\/p>\n
SYDNEY — Two-time Grand Slam singles champion Lleyton Hewitt<\/a>‘s return from retirement with his son Cruz<\/a> in doubles at the New South Wales Open challenger tournament ended Thursday with a loss in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n 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 Hayden Jones<\/a> and Pavle Marinkov<\/a> 6-1, 6-0 in a match Wednesday.<\/p>\n But the father-son team lost 7-5, 6-4 to Dane Sweeny<\/a> and Calum Puttergill<\/a> in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n 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":"Nov 20, 2025, 06:03 AM ET SYDNEY — Two-time Grand Slam singles champion Lleyton Hewitt‘s return from retirement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-303395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}