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  • Hewitt determined to get his injured hip problem solved

    7/2/08 12:38 PM | Johan Lindahl
    - Lleyton Hewitt is determined to get find a solution to the left hip tear problem that has compromised his 2008 season - even if it means missing several months through a possible operation to put things right.

    The Australian is hoping that a few weeks of rest will be the cure, but nothing is certain with the injury for the 2002 Wimbledon champion, beaten in the fourth round by Roger Federer.

    “We'll work out what is going to be the best option. In an ideal world, a couple of weeks rest would do the trick, and he could play Toronto and Cincinnati”, said manager David Drysdale.

    The 27-year-old is keen to play in the Beijing Olympics as well as become a more regular presence on the ATP. Any surgery would mean a two-month minimum pause.

    Federer suggests that Hewitt might be a spent force if he doesn't find his fitness: “I don't think he cares that much about his ranking any more. I think he has the potential, obviously, to be top 10, top 5”.

    “I don't think the ranking is his driving thing here. He doesn't look at the rankings. I think if he would play 25 tournaments a year and be on top of his game, yes, he has absolutely the chance to be at the top”.

    “But he unfortunately doesn't. For this reason it's probably not the rankings but tournaments. I feel bad for him that he's injured, that he has so many injury problems”.

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