Lleyton Hewitt retires in farewell at Australian Open

“You’re a freaking idiot”. “Left nothing in the locker room”.

– Andy Murray advances easily while national tennis icon Lleyton Hewitt ended his career at his 20th Australian Open on Thursday with a 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 loss to David Ferrer in the second round. He was doing it in Turkey and then he did it at a Futures in England, and he got done for it. I told them they needed to report it immediately. Hewitt was finally departing Rod Laver Arena for the last time, applause ringing in his ears and flanked by his three children and with his tearful wife Bec, a former actress in soap opera Home and Away, watching from the stands. “I was getting goosebumps out here”.

“You know you’re in a Grand Slam environment, third round and against an opponent you haven’t played … that’s fired up and is not going to just give you the match and that’s exactly what happened”, she said. At 5-foot-10, his size was considered a liability. I have always said “C’mon” purely to fire myself up. Hewitt’s comments were thought by many to be racist in nature.

Muguruza, who lost last year’s Wimbledon final to Serena Williams, made it to the fourth round in 2014 and 2015 at Melbourne Park.

While he polarised fans early on, Hewitt will go down as one of Australia’s most-decorated players.

Hewitt has had a deal with Japanese company Yonex since 2005.

“Apart from the likes of especially [Andre] Agassi in ’92, there wasn’t a lot of guys that would stay back and play from the back of the court”.

The 34-year-old veteran, however, branded these claims as absurd, insisting that nobody at the playing arena would think that he had been involved in corruption or match-fixing. Roger Federer and Nick Kyrgios have been given preferential RLA treatment.

For one last time, Lleyton Hewitt provided a glimpse of what he did best during his successful career. “I enjoyed the battles with him”.

Ana Ivanovic of Serbia celebrates after her second round win over Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016.

But Hewitt’s greatest passion was Davis Cup. No Australian man has won the title since 1976.

Dave Sammel, the coach of two British players on the Futures circuit, the lowest level of professional tennis, said his pupils had both been approached to throw matches.

His career could have been over five years ago when doctors advised him to stop playing after having his big toe fused.

I would like to be as competitive as him right to the end. As always, he fought till the very last point.

The strong-serving Canadian fired 24 aces, but he also made 59 unforced errors, compared to 17 for Robredo.

The ABC out-rated Nine’s non-sport programming, with Matt and Jane to the Rescue, featuring two former Block contestants who help a man with terminal kidney cancer fulfil his wish to renovate his home, drawing 369,000. “He’s just come off another great year”. He also won two victories in the ATP World Tour Finals in 2001 and 2002 respectively. “It’s the only T-shirt I have of a tennis player”. All my service games were really hard to hold the whole time. “But I can get better, for sure”.