Vintage Hewitt guides Australia into Davis Cup semis


  • Tennis
  • Sunday, 19 Jul 2015

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Ageing tour warrior Lleyton Hewitt banished a tumultuous week for Australian tennis by guiding his team into the Davis Cup semi-finals on Sunday with victory in the final singles against Kazakhstan.

Australia will meet either Britain or France for a place in their first final since 2003 after the hard-bitten former world number one trounced Aleksandr Nedovyesov 7-6(2) 6-2 6-3 in the Darwin sunshine.

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