Tennis: Hewitt leads Aussie double in Atlanta

ATLANTA: Davis Cup teammates Lleyton Hewitt and Marinko Matosevic led an Aussie assault as the unseeded pair gate-crashed into the second round of the ATP Tour’s Atlanta Championships. Former world number one Hewitt connected on a superlative 89 per cent of his first-serve points (25 of 28) in a 6-4, 6-4 crushing of American qualifier Phillip Simmonds. Matosevic, ranked 69th and a first-round Wimbledon victim, upset Russian sixth-seed Igor Kunitsyn 6-7, 6-2, 7-5.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 21^st, 2011.