{"id":982,"date":"2010-08-19T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=982"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T14:42:34","slug":"bahamas-based-hewitt-prepares-for-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/bahamas-based-hewitt-prepares-for-us-open","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas-Based Hewitt Prepares For US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1023 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"hewitt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hewitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hewitt.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hewitt-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Lleyton Hewitt returns from injury to a happy hunting ground this week for one last chance to finetune his game ahead of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt takes on Taiwan&#8217;s Yen-Hsun Lu on Wednesday in his opening match at the Cincinnati Masters, a tournament where the veteran Australian has enjoyed success over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt has reached two finals, three semis and one quarter-final from eight appearances in Cincinnati, where he&#8217;s only ever lost to fellow former world No.1s Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi, Carlos Moya and Pat Rafter, plus Xavier Malisse and Fabrice Santoro.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old soon-to-be father-of-three is desperate for court time less than a fortnight out from the start of the season&#8217;s final major, commencing in New York on August 30.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt, the 2001 Flushing Meadows champion, has played just one-and-a-half matches since falling to world No.3 Novak Djokovic in the fourth round at Wimbledon almost two months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently recovered from an injury, tennis star Lleyton Hewitt is working on fine tuning his game for the upcoming US Open. He is currently ranked 30th in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}