Hewitt needs hard work

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Hewitt needs hard work By Chip Le Grand November 17, 2003 THE last time Lleyton Hewitt arrived in Melbourne for a Davis Cup final, his instructions were to rest up and cool his heels on the Kooyong grass. Hewitt, at age 20, had just completed a marathon year on tour. He had played an extraordinary 94 matches and won 77 of them. He had won the US Open, the season-ending Masters Cup in Sydney and was the world No.1. All he needed before his opening rubber of the final against France was to fine-tune his game to grass. Long hours in the sun were strictly reserved for the golf course. Less tennis was definitely more. When Hewitt arrives in Melbourne tomorrow for the final against Spain, starting next Friday week, his training schedule being mapped out by Australia's captain John Fitzgerald will be very different. This year, Hewitt will be hard at work the moment he steps off the plane. Hewitt has not hit a ball in competition since September's Davis Cup semi-final. He has played less than half the tennis he did in 2001, sliding down the rankings to 18th. For the first time since he turned professional, the challenge for Hewitt is not to spare his body the rigours of tennis, but to get enough tennis into him. For the past two weeks, Hewitt has been sparring with hitting partners at Kooyong and Adelaide's Memorial Drive. From tomorrow, his preparation will shift into competitive sets and match simulation, training usually reserved for the last few days before a tie. "In most Davis Cup lead-up weeks, if you've got different balls and a new surface, you would hit quite a bit for the first four or five days and then start playing sets," Fitzgerald said yesterday. "In Lleyton's case, he is ready to start sets straight away." Hewitt's preparations are in stark contrast to Spain's top-ranked singles players, who were both in Houston last week for this year's Masters Cup. Neither Juan Carlos Ferrero nor Carlos Moya could claim any great form in Houston. Ferrero lost all three of his matches while Moya won one of three. Like Hewitt in 2001, Ferrero has run himself ragged this year, clocking up 83 singles appearances, winning five tournaments and laying siege to the world No.1 ranking. Moya, despite passing on the grass-court season, has played 76 matches. At this stage, Fitzgerald does not know which road is more likely to lead to the silver punch bowl. "It is difficult to get the perfect preparation and you don't know until afterwards," Fitzgerald said."I think ideally, you would probably have somewhere in between what both camps have had." -- 小希你好好加油啦!!!! 來兩張小希最新的照片~ 玩澳式足球....XD http://www.archive.newspix.com.au/photolib/images2/lores/13911270.jpg