{"id":1484,"date":"2016-01-21T19:58:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/21\/20-years-of-memories-as-tennis-ace-lleyton-hewitt-bows-out\/"},"modified":"2016-01-21T19:58:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T11:58:18","slug":"20-years-of-memories-as-tennis-ace-lleyton-hewitt-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/21\/20-years-of-memories-as-tennis-ace-lleyton-hewitt-bows-out\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years of memories, as tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lleyton-lead\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzIxL2I4L0xMRVlUT05MRUFELjZiMTJjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/fa972332\/9f9\/LLEYTON-LEAD.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=20+years+of+memories%2C+as+tennis+ace+Lleyton+Hewitt+bows+out&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F21%2Flleyton-hewitt-australian-open%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F21%2Flleyton-hewitt-australian-open%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>From fresh-faced at 15 to a world-class athlete at 34, Lleyton Hewitt&#8217;s tenure as one of Australia&#8217;s best-known tennis superstars has made him one of the biggest draws to the sport<\/p>\n<p>A known record-breaker, Hewitt reigns as the longest-running consecutive competitor in the Australian Open. It is also his last \u2014 this tournament marks his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>After 20 years of serves, aces, Vicht gestures and catchphrases, Hewitt&#8217;s dogged determination and attitude made the Open a must-watch for many Australian households. Never one to back down from a challenge, Hewitt gave ticket holders plenty to pay attention to with his reputation for being openly competitive and challenging rulings. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/21\/lleyton-hewitt-australian-open\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tennis\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tennis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/sports\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sports<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australian-open\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australian Open<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/_ZGrf91pJh4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From fresh-faced at 15 to a world-class athlete at 34, Lleyton Hewitt&#8217;s tenure as one of Australia&#8217;s best-known tennis superstars has made him one of the biggest draws to the sport A known record-breaker, Hewitt reigns as the longest-running consecutive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/21\/20-years-of-memories-as-tennis-ace-lleyton-hewitt-bows-out\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,1155,739,740,1154],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-entertainment","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}