Eduardo Schwank vs Lleyton Hewitt Updates

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 6:20 am , filed under Australian Open by Sam Siril

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Eduardo Schwank vs Lleyton Hewitt Barcelona open Bancsabadell atlantico 2010 match on Wednesday, April 21, 2010.

Venue: Barcelona, Spain.

Time: 10:30 A.M

Players Report:

Eduardo Schwank is ready to fight against Lleyton Hewitt in the Barcelona open Bancsabadell atlantico 2010 match on Wednesday.

Lleyton Hewitt is a former No.1 ranked from Australia. Lleyton Hewitt has won 2000 US Open men’s doubles, the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men’s singles, and back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup titles (2001 and 2002).

Lleyton Hewitt was seeded fourth in the Medibank International and, like the previous year, reached the quarter finals, losing to Marcos Baghdatis. At the Australian Open he beat Baghdatis in the third round, after the Cypriot retired injured. He met Roger Federer in the fourth round and lost 6–2, 6–3, 6–4.

A week after his exit from the Australian Open, Hewitt announced at a press conference at Melbourne Park that he underwent another hip operation similar to his left hip operation this time on his right hip on the 28th January 2010 in Hobart.

Hewitt returned to the tour at the US Men’s Claycourt Championships as the singles defending champion. He won his first match since the Australian Open, partnering coach Nathan Healey in the doubles, defeating James Cerretani and Adil Shamasdin 7-6 7-5. In the quarterfinals, they defeated Denis Istomin and Alessandro Motti 6-4 7-6, however, lost to top seeds the Bryan brothers in the semifinals 6-2 7-6. Hewitt received a first round bye, as he was seeded 4th in the singles. In his first match, against lucky loser Somdev Devvarman, Hewitt dropped the first set before battling to win in three sets, 1-6 6-0 7-6. He then lost to Juan-Ignacio Chela 6-4 6-3. Hewitt’s next tournament was scheduled to be the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters however withdrew due to a recurring injury.