{"id":5274,"date":"2014-01-05T20:31:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:57:47","slug":"hewitt-defeats-federer-to-win-brisbane-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/hewitt-defeats-federer-to-win-brisbane-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewitt Defeats Federer to Win Brisbane Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brisbane<\/p>\n

32-year-old Australian Lleyton Hewitt ended a fine week at the Brisbane International by defeating old adversary Roger Federer in the final.<\/p>\n

Hewitt prevailed 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in 2 hours and 7 minutes.<\/p>\n

An error-strewn opening set from Federer (22 unforced errors) helped Hewitt race out to an early lead.<\/p>\n

Federer battled back in the second and crucially broke for a 5-4 lead before sealing the second set with a powerful forehand.<\/p>\n

The Swiss maestro had chances in the deciding set but couldn’t capitalize on 7 break point opportunities, and Hewitt held on after breaking to 3-1 to secure the championship.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t play great today which is a bit unfortunate, but also Lleyton was the best player I played this week,” stated Federer in the post-match assessment.<\/p>\n

The victory secured Hewitt’s 29th ATP Tour title and first since 2010. He also moves back into the Top 50.<\/p>\n

“A lot depends on draws and how I play,” Hewitt replied when queried about his chances at the forthcoming Australian Open in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

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Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Marianne Bevis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

32-year-old Australian Lleyton Hewitt ended a fine week at the Brisbane International by defeating old adversary Roger Federer in the final. Hewitt prevailed 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in 2 hours and 7 minutes. An error-strewn opening set from Federer (22 unforced errors) helped Hewitt race out to an early lead. Federer battled back in the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,490,488,149,489,123,779],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-atp","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-lleyton-hewitt","tag-queensland","tag-roger-federer","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}