Bob Hewitt

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Bob Hewitt Tennis player
Bob Hewitt
Nation: AustraliaAustralia Australia
–1967 South Africa 1967–1982
South Africa 1961South Africa 
Birthday: January 12, 1940
Size: 190 cm
Weight: 93 kg
Resignation: 1980
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 613,837
singles
Career record: 172: 143
Career title: 4th
Highest ranking: 34 (December 15 1975)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open HF (1960, 1962, 1963)
French Open AF (1961, 1963-1965, 1967)
Wimbledon VF (1962, 1964, 1966)
US Open VF (1967)
Double
Career record: 502: 126
Career title: 54
Highest ranking: 4 (23 August 1977)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  9
Australian Open S (1963, 1964)
French Open S (1972)
Wimbledon S (1962, 1964, 1967, 1972, 1978)
US Open S (1977)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  6
Australian Open S (1961)
French Open S (1970, 1979)
Wimbledon S (1977, 1979)
US Open S (1979)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Robert "Bob" Anthony John Hewitt (born January 12, 1940 in Dubbo , New South Wales ) is a former Australian and South African tennis player and winner of a total of fifteen Grand Slam titles.

biography

Bob Hewitt was born in Australia. After his marriage to Delaille from Johannesburg , he took citizenship of South Africa and lived there for most of his life. He won all four Grand Slam tournaments in both tennis doubles and mixed doubles, although not in the same year. In 1974 Hewitt contributed a large part to South Africa's only victory in the Davis Cup . However, the final opponent India boycotted the final due to South Africa's apartheid policy .

Hewitt won the Australian Open twice , once the French Open and US Open and five times at Wimbledon . In mixed doubles, he celebrated one success each in Melbourne and New York and won two titles each in Paris and Wimbledon. There are also seven single and 65 double titles on the ATP tour . He won most of them with his long-time doubles partner and compatriot Frew McMillan . For these achievements, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1992 .

He was deleted from this list on November 16, 2012 after investigations into child abuse . In 2013, according to the information, formal investigations and finally a lawsuit against Hewitt were opened. On May 18, 2015, Hewitt was sentenced to six years in prison in South Africa for two rape cases and one for sexual harassment committed in the 1980s and 1990s. Sexual abuse allegations had also been raised in the United States , where he lived for a while. Hewitt had pleaded not guilty in all three cases. On September 12, 2016, Hewitt's appeal at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa failed after it had previously failed at the highest court of appeal .

Web links

Commons : Bob Hewitt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-tennis star Bob Hewitt faces rape, sexual assault charges on ctvnews.ca (English)
  2. ↑ Bob Hewitt, former tennis champion, jailed for six years for rape in: The Guardian , May 18, 2015, accessed May 19, 2015
  3. ↑ South African top court rejects ex-tennis star Bob Hewitt's bid to appeal rape conviction , Reuters, September 12, 2016, accessed September 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hewitt, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hewitt, Robert Anthony John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian and South African tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubbo , New South Wales , Australia