{"id":87038,"date":"2025-11-25T05:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hewitt-and-his-son-fall-in-challenger-quarters-the-champions-return\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:27:13","slug":"hewitt-and-his-son-fall-in-challenger-quarters-the-champions-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/hewitt-and-his-son-fall-in-challenger-quarters-the-champions-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewitt and his son fall in Challenger quarters: The champion&#8217;s return."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY \u2013 Lleyton Hewitt, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion, returned from retirement alongside his son Cruz in doubles at the New South Wales Open Challenger tournament, concluding this Thursday with a quarter-final defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt, 44 years old and former world number 1, who won the US Open in 2001 and Wimbledon in 2002, retired from individual tennis in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The father-son duo achieved a victory on Wednesday by defeating Hayden Jones and Pavle Marinkov with a score of 6-1 and 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the quarterfinals, the Hewitt team fell to Dane Sweeny and Calum Puttergill with scores 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 Lleyton has with his wife, former actress Bec Hewitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY \u2013 Lleyton Hewitt, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion, returned from retirement alongside his son Cruz in doubles at the New South Wales Open Challenger tournament, concluding this Thursday with a quarter-final defeat. Hewitt, 44 years old and former world number 1, who won the US Open in 2001 and Wimbledon in 2002, retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2255,8527,2483,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-87038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-doubles","9":"tag-lleyton-hewitt","10":"tag-quarter-finals","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87038","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=87038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}