So. Farewell then, Lleyton Hewitt. The curious thing about sport is that those who play the game only exist when they’re actually playing it. Or, at least, they should do. Obviously the obsession with celebrity has ensured that we can now track every move a footballer makes, but certain figures only pass across our vision occasionally, and in a casual tennis-watching country as this is, people like Lleyton Hewitt stomp into vision once every summer, then disappear to whichever obscure outpost they came from. Or ‘Australia’, as it is in this case.
But this is the last time Hewitt will exist in this country, as a tennis player at least.