Breaking Lleyton Hewitt’s son Cruz suffers big setback in his quest to follow in his dad’s footsteps EnglishHeadline

Cruz Hewitt has rekindled reminiscences of his dad Lleyton’s battling heyday as he went down preventing in his first-round contest within the boys’ occasion on the French Open.

The 16-year-old son of Australia’s former world No.1, who had gone by means of qualifying to make the occasion at Roland Garros, proved a handful on Sunday for Italian Pierluigi Basile, two years his senior and higher-placed on the earth junior standings, earlier than succumbing 7-6 (7-4) 5-7 6-3.

Hewitt misplaced the tightest of opening units on a breaker and appeared virtually down and out as Basile served for the match at 5-3 within the second set and earned a match level at 5-4, however the Sydney teenager fought tigerishly to show it round and take the match right into a decider.

The Italian had the superior firepower however Hewitt would not lie down, revving up the the galleries packed around the tight courtroom No.4 with the type of crowd-rousing exhortations taken straight from his father’s ebook.

Finally, he misplaced in two hours 10 minutes, unable to achieve the second spherical as he had performed on the junior occasion in January on the Australian Open, the place he additionally misplaced within the first spherical within the qualifiers for the senior occasion.

The loss marked Cruz’s grand slam return after his time at this 12 months’s event in Melbourne was marked by controversy surrounding him and fellow Aussie Nick Kyrgios.

Cruz Hewitt confirmed the grit his dad Lleyton turned well-known for as he fought again strongly earlier than crashing out of the French Open junior occasion on Sunday

Hewitt survived being down 5-3 within the second set, then giving his opponent match level earlier than turning it round to take the match to a deciding set

Cruz (pictured together with his well-known mother and father Lleyton and Bec) additionally misplaced within the first spherical when he competed on the Australian Open earlier this 12 months

Kyrgios was accused of harassing Hewitt over a photograph the teenager posted to social media exhibiting him posing with world No.1 Jannik Sinner, who was awaiting his punishment for breaching anti-doping guidelines on the time.

Kyrgios, who has been a vocal critic of Sinner, was not completely happy at seeing the 16-year-old with the Italian. 

Kyrgios commented beneath Cruz’s put up: ‘Love ya Cruz however that is wild’, then later including ‘Cooked put up’ with a needle emoji.

The Aussie firebrand additionally wrote: ‘Thought we have been boys’ with a number of broken-heart emojis, together with his feedback drawing heavy fireplace from tennis followers and nice of the sport Andy Roddick.

Kyrgios later defined that he is good buddies with Cruz and his remarks have been a joke between the pair.

On Monday, 16-year-old Emerson Jones, the world’s No.2 feminine junior, kicks off her marketing campaign as prime seed within the ladies’ occasion towards US qualifier Capucine Jauffret, whereas the opposite Australian within the boys’ event Ty Host will face US sixth seed Benjamin Willwerth.

Hewitt wasn’t the one son of a well-known participant to function in Sunday’s program, with fifth seed Jagger Leach, whose mom is American former triple grand slam winner Lindsay Davenport, beating Kazakh Zangar Nurlanuly 6-1 1-6 6-0.