How good can Lleyton Hewitt's son become ?

vokazu

Legend
He can be better than how he is now, if he works harder and stops relying on his parent's name.

Maybe take the same route as Murray or Nishikori: send him abroad alone to a tennis academy in Europe or US and let him focus on training and competing hard without his parents hanging around him too much in his tennis development. It will make him grow up faster as a pro tennis player and make him to realise more that it's all about hard work and nothing is a free gift.
 

reaper

Legend
He can be better than how he is now, if he works harder and stops relying on his parent's name.

Maybe take the same route as Murray or Nishikori: send him abroad alone to a tennis academy in Europe or US and let him focus on training and competing hard without his parents hanging around him too much in his tennis development. It will make him grow up faster as a pro tennis player and make him to realise more that it's all about hard work and nothing is a free gift.
Even if Cruz is of very low intellect he will have worked out by now that relying on his parent's name only gets him to a 1st round defeat in Australian Open qualifying. I'd be surprised if he doesn't harbour higher ambitions.
 

Subway Tennis

G.O.A.T.
How did Cruz end up with such a complicated forehand? The takeback and swing pattern has a lot of extra flourish to it.

I wonder if Lleyton spearheaded that technique (very different from his uncluttered stroke mechanics) or maybe he has been quite hands-off and that is a Tennis Australia thing?
 

vokazu

Legend
How did Cruz end up with such a complicated forehand? The takeback and swing pattern has a lot of extra flourish to it.

I wonder if Lleyton spearheaded that technique (very different from his uncluttered stroke mechanics) or maybe he has been quite hands-off and that is a Tennis Australia thing?
I saw Cruz was coached by someone in KDV Tennis Academy in Gold Coast. Most Aussie players are coached by Tennis Australia-approved coaches. His forehand can be flashy at times but it is not consistently powerful. His backhand is just terrible at the moment. The family keeps moving house. Now they are selling their house in Gold Coast. In my opinion Cruz should just stick to one Academy and with one good coach to get a solid development in his technique. At the moment his technique seems to be all over the place. I think he has too many people around him and that can confuse his tennis development. Should really go to a tennis Academy in Spain like Murray and have one coach that can personally guide him on day to day basis which will create a strong coach-player bond, without his parents hanging around him too much. He needs to focus and he needs to block outside noise / Aussie fans' expectation, he needs to grind it hard in European clay circuits which will toughen him up mentally.
 

Third Serve

Talk Tennis Guru
Dude is getting roasted hard in the comments of that video. Usually you’d see most of the scrutinizing happen on TTW.

I will say he has a very weird forehand takeback though. His technique needs a lot of improvement if he’s setting his sights high.
 

Rovesciarete

Hall of Fame
How did Cruz end up with such a complicated forehand? The takeback and swing pattern has a lot of extra flourish to it.

I wonder if Lleyton spearheaded that technique (very different from his uncluttered stroke mechanics) or maybe he has been quite hands-off and that is a Tennis Australia thing?

The most common advantage of being the kid of a first class player ought to be learning great fundamentals from early on, so it is indeed strange. Korda comes to my mind with his almost too beautiful strokes which seem to lack fire.
 

TennisBro

Hall of Fame
His technique needs a lot of improvement if he’s setting his sights high.
The bothering fact is that his sight is high already. Given that he's had everything a junior tennis player dreams of, he's a living example of inadequacy. It is concerning that there are about 500 junior ITF tennis players ranked behind Cruz all the way to the 600th junior ITF ranking spot that are as good or even better than him. How many of them do you think have got and will get so much care and so many opportunities as he has had?
 

artdeco

Semi-Pro
Dude is getting roasted hard in the comments of that video. Usually you’d see most of the scrutinizing happen on TTW.

I will say he has a very weird forehand takeback though. His technique needs a lot of improvement if he’s setting his sights high.
If you watch that practice video that was on youtube recently, he was hitting even more like Tiafoe than he did in the AO match. If you go back to footage of him the last few years, he hits similar to Kyrgios but not like Tiafoe. I'm assuming he doesn't feel confident enough with the Tiafoe-style forehand to hit like that in a real match.
 

Subway Tennis

G.O.A.T.
I saw Cruz was coached by someone in KDV Tennis Academy in Gold Coast. Most Aussie players are coached by Tennis Australia-approved coaches. His forehand can be flashy at times but it is not consistently powerful. His backhand is just terrible at the moment. The family keeps moving house. Now they are selling their house in Gold Coast. In my opinion Cruz should just stick to one Academy and with one good coach to get a solid development in his technique. At the moment his technique seems to be all over the place. I think he has too many people around him and that can confuse his tennis development. Should really go to a tennis Academy in Spain like Murray and have one coach that can personally guide him on day to day basis which will create a strong coach-player bond, without his parents hanging around him too much. He needs to focus and he needs to block outside noise / Aussie fans' expectation, he needs to grind it hard in European clay circuits which will toughen him up mentally.
Is KDV the tennis academy where the multi millionaire created it for his son to become a pro, and then opened it up as a general academy?
 

Subway Tennis

G.O.A.T.
The most common advantage of being the kid of a first class player ought to be learning great fundamentals from early on, so it is indeed strange. Korda comes to my mind with his almost too beautiful strokes which seem to lack fire.
I hope Korda reaches his full potential. His forehand broke down big time in the Adelaide final but wow he does impress me when he is on. So good to watch.
 

Mustard

Bionic Poster
He needs to improve quite a bit if he wants to come anywhere close to Lleyton.
What was impressive about Lleyton was his mentality even at 16-19 years old. His mentality was already elite, aside from inexperience, as he loved competing, loved a scrap, thrived on challenges etc.

At this point 25 years ago in early 2000, Hewitt was all the rage as a fast rising player.
 

JeMar

Legend
If he gets some good coaching and puts in the work, he could win somewhere between zero and 51 slams.
 

Daniel Andrade

Hall of Fame
Dude is getting roasted hard in the comments of that video. Usually you’d see most of the scrutinizing happen on TTW.

I will say he has a very weird forehand takeback though. His technique needs a lot of improvement if he’s setting his sights high.
Reminds me a little bit of Kyrgios.
 

Better_Call_Raul

Hall of Fame
Dude is getting roasted hard in the comments of that video. Usually you’d see most of the scrutinizing happen on TTW.

I will say he has a very weird forehand takeback though. His technique needs a lot of improvement if he’s setting his sights high.

He just turned 16 last month. Don't know why his dunderhead parents are pushing him into Australian Open Qualifiers so soon.
 

Bambooman

Legend
How did Cruz end up with such a complicated forehand? The takeback and swing pattern has a lot of extra flourish to it.

I wonder if Lleyton spearheaded that technique (very different from his uncluttered stroke mechanics) or maybe he has been quite hands-off and that is a Tennis Australia thing?
It's a next next gen thing.

Every new gen feels they need to add a little extra movement in the take back.
 

The Guru

Legend
His technique is kinda shockingly bad. You'd think having Lleyton as your father you'd never end up with swing looking like that.
 

vokazu

Legend
Is KDV the tennis academy where the multi millionaire created it for his son to become a pro, and then opened it up as a general academy?
It's owned by a Russian tycoon, owner of KDV confectionery company in Russia. Yes his son was training there, but I think he opened it not especially for his son. It's a Golf and Tennis and Padel academy. It also has a hotel behind it.
 
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