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  • Hewitt to tempt fate by playing Paris

    5/19/08 11:47 AM | Johan Lindahl
    - Lleyton Hewitt will tempt fate by attempting to play the French Open, with medical opinion divided as to whether he Australian could do additional damage to an injury which has kept him from the courts since early April.

    “I thought it best to go to Paris and start my originally planned preparation, in the hope that the hip will be OK for me to compete,” Hewitt told his website.

    He admitted his attitude is “optimistic about playing the French and also the grasscourt season, especially Wimbledon.”

    Hewitt said he would be forced to take things day by day. “I've now just got to prepare as well as possible and hope the body holds up for me.”

    He will make a final decision about whether to start in Paris depending on how he pulls up from training sessions this week.

    The 27-year-old was heading immediately to Paris for the clay-court major which starts on Sunday.

    He will be accompanied by coach Tony Roche and physio Ivan Guttierez.

    Doctors in Sydney have told the two-time Grand Slam champion that playing could possibly aggravate the problems which he first began noticing in January. Surgery might be one eventual option.

    But Hewitt is loathe to write off Paris and the subsequent one-month grass season at Queen's and Wimbledon.

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