Hewitt eases through at Queen's

Eurosport - Thu, 11 Jun 09:43:00 2009

Four-times Queen's champion Lleyton Hewitt took just 44 minutes to down Argentine Eduardo Schwank 6-1 6-0 in the first round of the 2009 event.

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Hewitt - champion from 2000-2002 and also in 2006 - won 12 consecutive games as he made an impressive start to the grasscourt season.

"He didn't serve that poorly but I made him play a lot of balls," the 28-year-old former world number one said.

The Australian was back on court later in the day, teaming up with British number one Andy Murray in the doubles tournament.

They saved a match point en route to defeating Rajeev Ram and Andy Roddick 3-6 6-3 12-10 to set up a meeting with Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach in the next round.

Murray - given a bye in the first round - will meet Andreas Seppi in the second round following the Italian's 5-7 7-6 6-3 defeat of Robby Ginepri.

Perhaps the most impressive performance of the day came from Frenchman Nicolas Mahut who downed Janko Tipsarevic 6-0 6-4.

Mahut is no stranger to Queen's having had a match point against Andy Roddick in the 2007 final.

Roddick, like Murray, was given a bye in the first round and will meet Kristof Vliegen who overcame Leonardo Mayer 7-6 6-4.

From a British perspective there was little good news as Josh Goodall and James Ward both fell in straight sets, to Gilles Muller (6-3 7-6) and Marcos Baghdatis (6-2 6-3) respectively.

Elsewhere, there were wins for Michael Llodra, Ivan Ljubicic and Feliciano Lopez.

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Dan Rumens / Eurosport

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    From Umar, on Tue 9 Jun 11:46AM
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    Clearly this piece of news is the anticlimax after the­ great Rolland Garros we watched last fortnight. Hewitt­ will go nowhere. He will keep filling the numbers.­ Looser

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