Hewitt still a threat

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Hewitt still a threat By PAUL MALONE in NEW YORK August 27, 2003 RETIRING tennis legend Pete Sampras yesterday cautioned against ruling sixth-seeded Lleyton Hewitt out of US Open title calculations after the Australian made a smooth start to his Flushing Meadows campaign. Hewitt, looking to re-establish himself in the year's final grand slam event after falling to No. 6 in the world rankings, disarmed Romanian Victor Hanescu without fuss early in their first-round match and posted a 6-3 6-2 6-2 win. "I wouldn't count him out. He is lacking confidence and he's kind of creating some of these things, like [his court case] with the ATP, which are hard to get through," Sampras said. "It's hard enough going through it on the tennis court. But he is mentally very tough and strong. He'll be fine." Hewitt, who is fourth favourite in US betting markets behind favourite Andy Roddick, presented a strikingly calm face to a sport which had been wondering about the effect his form lapse has had on his belief in his game. "I think when I've had little hiccups, I've bounced back from them pretty well," said Hewitt, who will play Korea's Sydney International winner Hyung Taik-Lee in the second round, probably on Friday morning. "I'd like to think I'm pretty mentally tough. With my style of game, there's one edge that I probably have over a lot of guys. You still need goals, things to motivate you, as well. "This is a different tournament. This is a grand slam. This is what gets you motivated." Former great John McEnroe said Hewitt's father Glynn had told him that one reason for his uneven past five tournaments was that the fallen world No. 1 was "too happy, his intensity was not high enough". The effort of Hanescu, ranked No. 85, in the final games of the 91-minute encounter was dismal. On match point, he could not even summon a lunge at a Hewitt return bunted short around the service-line. "I'm going to have to play a lot tougher and better players than I did tonight. For me, it's a good opportunity to forget some of those losses," Hewitt said. Hewitt's camp will be pleased at his aggression on short balls and his 23 net raids, which yielded 18 points, as pointers to a prominent Open with the help of a kind first-week draw. -- ◢█◤ ◢◤◢████◤◢█◤ ◢█◤◢███◤◢█████◤◢█████◤ ██◢ █◢█████◤██◢ ██◢████◢██████◢██████◢ ██◤◢◤█◢██◤◢◤◢██◢ ██◢ ██◤ ██████◤██████◤ ██████◢█████◤██◢◣██◢ ██◤ ██◤ ██◤ ██◢ █◢██◢◤◢◤██◢◣██◢ ██◢◢ ██◢ ██◢ ██◤ █◤█████◤◥█◤◥█◤◤████◤ ██◤ ██◤ -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.csie.ntu.edu.tw) ◆ From: 61.217.178.60