8 Apr 2009

Hewitt opens claycourt campaign in style

4:47 pm on 8 April 2009

Lleyton Hewitt has opened his 2009 claycourt tennis campaign in style with a storming first-round win at the Houston Open.

The Australian number one needed just 65 minutes to dismiss the seventh seed Diego Junqueira 6-0 6-2.

He'll face another Argentine, Sergio Roitman, for a place in the quarter-finals afgter the top two seeds, Americans James Blake and Mardy Fish, were eliminated.