{"id":85138,"date":"2025-11-23T05:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hewitt-and-his-son-fall-in-quarters-return-of-the-former-tennis-no-1-does-not-fructify\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:22:25","slug":"hewitt-and-his-son-fall-in-quarters-return-of-the-former-tennis-no-1-does-not-fructify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/hewitt-and-his-son-fall-in-quarters-return-of-the-former-tennis-no-1-does-not-fructify\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewitt and his son fall in quarters: Return of the former tennis No. 1 does not fructify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney \u2013 Two-time Grand Slam champion Lleyton Hewitt&#8217;s return to competition, alongside his son Cruz in the New South Wales Open Challenger tournament, culminated this Thursday with a defeat in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt, 44 years old and former world number 1, who retired from individual tennis in 2016, partnered with his 16-year-old son, Cruz. On Wednesday, they achieved a resounding victory over Hayden Jones and Pavle Marinkov, with a score of 6-1 and 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>However, the father-son duo couldn&#8217;t advance in the tournament, falling to Dane Sweeny and Calum Puttergill in the quarterfinals, with a score of 7-5 and 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Lleyton Hewitt currently serves as the captain of the Australian Davis Cup team. Cruz Hewitt is one of the three children Hewitt has with his wife, former actress Bec Hewitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney \u2013 Two-time Grand Slam champion Lleyton Hewitt&#8217;s return to competition, alongside his son Cruz in the New South Wales Open Challenger tournament, culminated this Thursday with a defeat in the quarterfinals. Hewitt, 44 years old and former world number 1, who retired from individual tennis in 2016, partnered with his 16-year-old son, Cruz. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2255,8527,2483,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-85138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-doubles","8":"tag-lleyton-hewitt","9":"tag-quarter-finals","10":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}