TENNIS Live

Australian Open - 1st Round - Men

Nationality Player Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5
CHIF Gonzalez56636
AustraliaL Hewitt72263

Lleyton Hewitt

Nationality AUS
Date of Birth 24/02/1981
Height 1.8 m
Weight 77 kg

Fernando Gonzalez

Nationality CHI
Date of Birth 29/07/1980
Height 1.82 m
Weight 81 kg
 

Live Comments

  1. 3-6 - GONZALEZ GOES THROUGH TO THE SECOND ROUND! The Chilean calmly serves out the match to love when Hewitt dumps a tame forehand return of serve into the net

  2. 3-5 - Hewitt does well to hold, for the first time in three games, and force Gonzalez to serve it out

  3. 2-5 - This time Gonzalez holds to love to cement the break and, while he is having more treatment during the change of ends, this time to his right thigh, Hewitt will have to think about the fact he will serve to stay in the match

  4. 2-4 - GONZALEZ BREAKS AGAIN! The injury cannot be too bad to Gonzalez's leg as he whips a forehand passing shot across court to break for a second time in this set and take the lead once more

  5. 2-3 - Gonzalez is now having treatment on his left thigh (an injury time out has been called). That heavily strapped left knee can't be too much trouble though as you would have thought if he'd been suffering at all late into a fifth set it would be from the knee not anything else

  6. 2-3 - HEWITT BREAKS BACK! This match could run and run as Hewitt breaks immediately back thanks in part to a double fault from Gonzalez. We are back on serve in this final set

  7. 1-3 - GONZALEZ BREAKS! Hewitt throws in a poor game and just when it looked like the momentum was beginning to swing the Australian's way, the 13th seeded Chilean has turned it round again

  8. 1-2 - Gonzalez manages to hold again to keep himself just in front despite an epic game that saw Hewitt hold a couple of break points

  9. 1-1 - An ace out wide from Hewitt wraps up a confident service hold to get the Australian off the mark in this final set

  10. 0-1 - Gonzalez opens the fifth and final set with a hold to 30

  11. 6-3 - HEWITT LEVELS THE MATCH WITH THE FOURTH SET! Gonzalez concedes the game throwing in a drop shot which Hewitt easily races up to, putting away an easy backhand into the open court

  12. 5-3 - HEWITT BREAKS AGAIN! Much to the delight of the crowd, who are really getting into this match now, the Australian immediately breaks back to re-establish his lead. Gonzalez hits wide to hand Hewitt the break and the Aussie will now serve for the fourth set

  13. 4-3 - GONZALEZ BREAKS BACK! An umtimely double fault from Hewitt on break point allowed Gonzalez right back into this set

  14. 4-2 - Better again from Gonzalez as he holds, also to 30, to stop the run of games against him. Just the one break down the Chilean

  15. 4-1 - Hewitt holds to 30 to cement the break, when Gonzalez's forehand return of serve catches the top of the tape and remains on his side of the net

  16. 3-1 - HEWITT BREAKS! Somewhat against the majority of play over the past 30 minutes, Lleyton Hewitt has broken the Gonzalez serve. The Chilean saved three break points to level at deuce but Hewitt held on and much to the delight of the vociferous crowd he is now leading this fourth set

  17. 2-1 - Hewitt has been broken in the third game of both the past two sets but an ace and a couple of winners manage to halt that tradition as the Australian holds to 15

  18. 1-1 - Hewitt hits into the net post as Gonzalez holds to 15 to get his third set underway

  19. 1-0 - Hewitt has to battle hard to win his opening service game of the third set but eventually does so to 30

  20. 2-6 - Another comfortable service hold from Gonzalez, to 15, sees him wrap up the second set with a forehand winner down the line. He is simply hitting more winners than Hewitt - 19 compared with the Aussie's 2 in that set

  21. 2-5 - GONZALEZ BREAKS AGAIN! The 13th seed is looking pretty well in control now as he breaks for a second time in this set to leave himself preparing to serve it out after the change of ends

  22. 2-4 - Hewitt sees a small shaft of light as he reaches 30-30 on the Gonzalez serve but the Chilean produces some blistering groundstrokes including a milimetre-perfect forehand winner to slam the door shut and hold to maintain his lead in this set

  23. 2-3 - Better from Hewitt as he holds to prevent a repeat of the second set

  24. 1-3 - Gonzalez holds to cement the break. You would think he'd be well on his way now but with the tenacious Hewitt down the other end of the court and the home crowd beginning to up the decibel levels as they back their man, you never know what's going to happen

  25. 1-2 - GONZALEZ BREAKS! Hewitt is foot-faulted on a second serve at 15-30 down to hand Gonzalez another break point, which he takes full advantage of as Hewitt slaps a forehand long

  26. 1-1 - Gonzalez has a more comfortable time on serve holding to 15 with an ace out wide

  27. 1-0 - Hewitt is forced to save a break point in the opening game of this third set but does so when Gonzalez hits just wide, before going on to hold when the Chilean hits a backhand down the line into the net

  28. 2-6 - GONZALEZ TAKES THE SECOND SET to level the match. An inch-perfect forehand down the line from the Chilean sees him hold to 15 to level the match at one set apeice

  29. 2-5 - A much better service game from Hewitt as he holds comfortably to force Gonzalez to serve for the set

  30. 1-5 - Gonzalez really has run away with this set now as he holds with ease to cement the double break. Hewitt will want to get another service hold on the board but he must be thinking about the third set by now

  31. 1-4 - GONZALEZ BREAKS AGAIN! Hewitt looked so solid on serve in the first set but he is being pushed all round the court now as Gonzalez sends down a barage of heavy groundstrokes. Hewitt can't stick with him and hits another attempted forehand down the line into the net

  32. 1-3 - Gonzalez holds to cement the break, as Hewitt hits an attempted forehand down the line into the net where it remains. The Chilean had to recover from 15-30 down in that game but did so with some impressively ferocious groundstrokes

  33. 1-2 - GONZALEZ BREAKS! He threatened it in Hewitt's last service game of the first set and now Gonzalez has managed to secure a break of serve. Hewitt saved one break point a 0-40 down but a forehand winner from the Chilean at the second attempt was enough to see him get ahead in this set

  34. 1-1 - Here we go again! Gonzalez posts another comfortable service hold to put the disappointment of the first set behind him and begin the second level with Hewitt

  35. 1-0 - Hewitt holds to 15 to open up his second set account - the one point he dropped, he went for too acute an angle running round a forehand to put it down the line and misses by milimetres

  36. 7-5 - THE FIRST BREAK AND FIRST SET GO TO HEWITT! The Australian produces some of his trademark hussle around the court to hit a backhand winner in open court and earn himself his first break point before grabbing it with both hands by sending Gonzalez out wide on the forehand side and hitting into the open court

  37. 6-5 - The first vague sign of trouble on the Hewitt serve as he is forced to recover from 15-30 down, but he does so with relative ease and holds when Gonzalez hits long. The Chilean will need to serve to stay in it again and force the breaker

  38. 5-5 - Unsurprisingly Gonzalez holds again, also to 30, when Hewitt hits a forehand return of serve into the net, although to be honest it looked as though the angle would have taken it wide even if it had gone over. Still on serve

  39. 5-4 - A slightly tougher service game for Hewitt as Gonzalez pushes him to 30 but the Australian still holds comfortably and Gonzalez will have to come out and serve to stay in the set after the change of ends

  40. 4-4 - Gonzalez continues to match Hewitt and keep things on serve. This set looks like it will have to be decided by a tie-break - neither man looks particularly vulnerable on serve

  41. 4-3 - Another service hold by Hewitt, as Gonzalez slaps a forehand return of serve into the net, is greeted by rapturous applause from the crowd

  42. 3-3 - Gonzalez levels up once again bringing up game point with an ace down the T before holding with a big serve out wide and a forehand winner down the line

  43. 3-2 - Hewitt holds again to maintain his lead and Gonzalez appears to be having some sort of battle with the structure behind his chair that is providing him with some shade at the change of ends. It looks like he wants to tilt it at a slightly different angle but the structure is pretty solid and the Chilean is having little luck in bending it his way!

  44. 2-2 - Gonzalez also posts another comfortable hold although he does so to 15 when a seriously mis-hit forehand lands well long of the baseline

  45. 2-1 - Hewitt holds to love to keep things on serve early in this first set

  46. 1-1 - A much more comfortable service hold from Gonzalez, who by the way has a heavily strapped right knee

  47. 1-0 - Shocking start from Hewitt as he drops the first three points of the match, but an unforced error from Gonzalez, followed by an ace and a forehand winner from the Australian, allow him to level up at deuce before he goes on to hold courtesy of another couple of Gonzalez errors

  48. 0-0 - Hewitt to get the match underway then ...

  49. 03:19 - The players have finished their warm-up and are ready to go, although Hewitt is doing his usual stalling tactics to make Gonzalez wait on the baseline

  50. 03:09 - These two players have met five times before with Gonzalez leading the head-to-heads 3-2. The last meeting between the pair was two years ago at the Australian Open in the round of 32, when triumphed in four sets before going on to be beaten by Roger Federer in that year's final

  51. 03:03 - Hello and welcome to Eurosport Yahoo!'s LIVE coverage of this first round clash between home hero Lleyton Hewitt and 2007 finalist Fernando Gonzalez