The US Open fourth seed had dropped just four games during a blistering semi final win over Russia’s Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and in the final had crowd favourite Pete Sampras on the rack.
Hewitt was 20 years old; a brash kid from Adelaide, still a work in
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