In the second round of men's singles at the Australian Open today, Hewitt lost to Ferrer 2/6, 4/6, 4/6 to complete the final battle of his career.
No one is anymore
Like the boring summer afternoons of the rebellious years of youth, the sleep-inducing sound of cicadas mixed with dirt and sweat seems to more easily outline our initial outlines of Hewitt.
As the youngest world number one (20 years old and 8 months to reach the top of the world first), Hewitt can be regarded as a young celebrity compared to the so-called "genius teenagers" at present.
Born in Adelaide in 1981, Hewitt began to play on the professional tour at the age of 15, won his first Grand Slam trophy at the US Open in 2001, and he laughed at the end of the year's year-end finals.
Continue your own world number one path while layton. Hewitt also won the second Grand Slam trophy of his career and his last Grand Slam trophy. Sampras's Meadow Dynasty quickly fell apart, and the tennis scene at this time was full of smoke.
Federer, who already had enough ability to beat Sampras, continued to grope his way; Safin, who already had a Grand Slam, continued to rise, and Rodick and Ferrero, as well as Nalbandian (Hewitt's opponent in the 2002 Wimbledon final was Nalbandian), also rose to challenge Hewitt's throne.
After Wimbledon won the title, Hewitt rushed to the stands and kissed Christers seems to be vividly remembered, and this "shock love" that began in 2000 is still so sweet, although it seems full of helplessness now, but this love affair comparable to Agassi and Graf is still sighing.
A few years ago, Agassi declared war on Hewitt and Christiers at mcKenroe's "instigation", and 20 years later, the children of the Agassi family were going to challenge the children of the Hewitt family, and Agassi even joked that if his children could not fight, they would consider going to fight in person. All this now seems so ironic, but at that time it was the warmest and most romantic scene of the Australian Open.
Hewitt flew to Johannesburg, South Africa, to pick up dazzling fancy diamonds for his fiancée Christers, but the fiery love affair could also be dissipated like a storm.
Drifting away from the Grand Slam
As superstars who became famous earlier than Federer, Nike's estimated commercial value made Hewitt and Federer inseparable at this time, wearing the same game jersey and playing in the same room. An imperceptible watershed has gradually formed between the two.
Even if Hewitt once faced severe chicken pox, changing coaches and having off-court lawsuits, Hewitt was happy to have Christers around to encourage and accompany him, and Hewitt, who was deeply in love. But with the low point of the career, the end of "shock love" has to be said to be a tempering of Hewitt, and it will show vitality to remain calm in adversity.
The iron that folded the sand was not sold
As in January, the northeast trade winds over the Pacific Ocean cross the equator to Australia as usual, but the scorching air brought by the northern monsoon each year never gives Layton. Hewitt had brought a glimmer of good luck. From his first at-the-time he played on the ATP Tour at the age of 15 to now, the only time he reached the final of the Australian Open was eleven years ago in 2005.
2005 is an important moment in the centenary of the Australian Open, after unremitting efforts to reach the final Hewitt against the Russian Safine, Australia's local fans naturally hope that the century-old Australian Open championship trophy can be won by Hewitt to be considered "homecoming".
The five-year, $30 million contract he signed with Nike in 2000 also expired, and he was very dissatisfied with The decline of Hewitt's strategic blueprint on Nike due to Federer's rise.
In addition, there are fans' high voices for Federer, and the trough of his career has made the "Australian Hare" moody, and the insulting gay scandal exposed at the Davis Cup has made Nike choose to break up in time after the contract expires.
Although even after adjusting the state, Hewitt let everything move in a benign direction, Hewitt did not laugh at the end when he came to the final, and in the semi-final, Savin's cutting off the popular Federer was a classic battle that is still praised, and Suffin did not hesitate to take the championship into his arms in the final. However, at this moment, the two should not have thought that this was the last time in their respective careers to stand on the final field of the Grand Slam.
The torture of illness
Hewitt's annual comeback for years seems to have become a law of a dead loop: whenever the form rises, injuries will send him back to the starting line in its entirety.
In January 2006, Australians, as usual, began complaining that the northern monsoon had heated up the pleasant Gold Coast to the point where it was difficult to breathe. At this moment, however, the sun at Melbourne Park is quietly drifting away from Hewitt, and since 2006, the indomitable Australian has never reached the final four of a Grand Slam.
Because the 2008 season began, Hewitt never had a season that was complete. After undergoing his first surgery, Hewitt won the Houston title in 2009 and beat Del Potro to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam again at Wimbledon, and when the Wimbledon audience remembered the title again, their beloved hero once again fell into the nightmare of injury.
In 2010, Hewitt's second hip surgery was unusually successful, and the comeback Hewitt quickly won the German Harley Championship, although the pain spread from the hip to the wrist, from the shoulder to the knee, but the disease-ridden Hewitt stubbornly believed that although his achievements were no longer the same, there was nothing to stop his unremitting steps.
Until the ankle problem in 2011, the "Australian Hare", which has always been known for its speed and physical strength, faced the problem of injuries, which made the Australian Hare have to put down its rapid pace. For several years, he has been hovering between retirement and comeback for a long time, and his stubborn career has been tortured by illness, and even if he is angry, he will disappear in the face of illness.
The story of time
As a hero who reversed the decline of the Australian tennis world, he defeated "Mulberry" Sampras in the 2001 US Open final, and defeated Nalbandian in the 2002 Wimbledon final to win the year-end finals for two consecutive years. From 1999 to 2003, he led the team to reach the Davis Cup final five times and won the title twice, in addition to the scene of unlimited scenery, but also his obsessive-compulsive running and sweet "shock love", at that time, people felt that there seemed to be no obstacle to destroy this "Australian hare".
It wasn't until this time last year that he succumbed to the years, and a public retirement plan in early 2015 suggested that the 2016 Australian Open would be the first of his career.
In the year-end finals in London in November 2015, ATP invited Wieland, McEnroe and Becker to attend Hewitt's retirement ceremony.
As a two-time year-end finals champion and former world number one, after the group stage of Nadal and Murray, the ATP chairman also gave Hewitt a frame to witness the glorious moments of his career according to the custom, and with the retirement of Safine, Rodick, Ferrero and Nalbandian, Hewitt's career also came to an end.
Today's Hewitt also has a happy family, the years will be full of wild out of the wind chasing teenagers into a full-fledged and mature tennis veteran, Hewitt's career is undoubtedly the epitome of a generation, wild and uninhibited to calm and generous, Hewitt in his favorite meadow to bid farewell to the audience, with tears unconsciously searching, too many flashes on his body can effortlessly evoke our past memories.
From the soaring tennis superstar to the embarrassing situation of constantly seeking wild cards, from the enviable fairy couple to the unhappiness of the end, even in the face of successive injuries in the career, the legend of the "Australian Hare" is enough to shock the world.
Like many teenagers looking forward to becoming famous at a young age, the Australian season always heralds the start of a new season, and the eager teenagers sharpen their knives like Hewitt and Federer.
With the start of the 2016 Australian Open just around the corner, Hewitt chose to prepare with his former rival Federer, which may be the last warm-up practice of the two men's careers.
From never stopping to laughing at life, Hewitt has endured too much. No matter how far this year's Australian Open can go. Taking the starting point as the end, at the end of his career, Hewitt also made up a perfect rest for himself.