Lleyton Hewitt retires: 5 things that make him special

#4 He has dominated Roger Federer

That statement alone is not something most tennis players can say. Dominating Roger Federer is not really a concept most players – barring, now, Novak Djokovic – can lay claim to. But in the early part of Hewitt’s (and Federer’s) careers, the Australian dominated his Swiss counterpart across surfaces.

Hewitt managed to take victories over Federer on grass, clay, hard court, carpet – and it was only 5 years into their long-standing rivalry that Federer came back with such momentum that he now holds an 18-9 record over the Australian.

Hewitt can take heart, though, from having won the pair’s last meeting – at Brisbane in 2014.