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12/7/10 2:01 PM | Johan Lindahl
Lleyton Hewitt is back on the practise court after sitting out with a hand injury since late September, with the 29-year-old optimistic about his chances to start 2011 in winning style prior to the Australian Open.
The one-time No. 1 will play for the first time at the eight-man AAMI Classic at Melbourne's Kooyong club, with fences finally mended after years of on-again, off-again feuding with organiser Colin Stubs, once the Aussie Open tournament director. That event comes the week after the Hopman Cup mixed teams event where Hewitt will also appear.
Hewitt ignored the past as he praised Kooyong, where he will make final Open tune-up preparations the week before the start of the season's first major. "I'm back hitting the ball again so it's all good," said Hewitt, back with former coach Tony Roche as the pair seek to turn back the clock on both their careers.
"It took a couple of weeks to get back in the rhythm of hitting again. I've done some fitness training before I actually got on the court, which held me in good stead to be able to go out there and train with Rochey and do the hard yards again."
Hewitt called his former Davis Cup coach and long-ago mentor to Ivan Lendl "a big part of my life, on and off the court. I respect him, what he has got to say, always. He's one of the greatest coaches out there, so I'm privileged to have him in my corner." Roche will serve as Davis Cup coach again a decade after he last held the job under the new Patrick Rafter regime.
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