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Lleyton Hewitt into third round of Wimbledon

LONDON (AP) _ Former champion Lleyton Hewitt needed just over half an hour Friday to complete a five-set victory and move into the third round of Wimbledon.

The sixth-seeded Australian, who won the title here in 2002, had split the first four sets with 102nd-ranked Lee Hyung-taik of South Korea when their match was suspended by darkness Thursday.

Returning to Court 1 under sunny skies, Hewitt broke Lee in the 10th game of the fifth set to finish a 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-4 win. Friday's play took 38 minutes, while the match lasted 3 hours, 56 minutes overall.

Lee fell behind 0-40 on his first service game of the fifth set, but saved three break points and held. Hewitt got in trouble at 15-30 and 30-30 on his serve in the ninth game, but hit consecutive aces (his 18th and 19th of the match) to hold, pumping his fist and shouting, ``Come on!''

That seemed to lift Hewitt, and he went on to break for the match in the next game. After Hewitt ripped a forehand winner to put Lee down 15-40, the Korean dumped a forehand approach into the net on match point. Hewitt celebrated by dropping down to one knee and pumping his right arm three times.

Lee finished with more winners than Hewitt (66 to 51) but also had more unforced errors (59 to 42).

Earlier, Justine Henin-Hardenne became the first player to reach the fourth round with another routine win in straight sets.

The third-seeded Belgian beat 34th-ranked Anna Chakvetadze of Russia, 6-2, 6-3 in 65 minutes on Court 2, known as the ``graveyard of champions'' because of its history of big upsets.

There was no danger of a surprise this time as Henin-Hardenne overwhelmed the 19-year-old Russian with 23 winners, closing out the match with a touch drop volley to break serve. Chakvetadze had just six winners, along with 15 unforced errors.

Henin-Hardenne, the Wimbledon runner-up in 2001, won the French Open last month for her fifth major title. By winning Wimbledon, she would complete a career collection of all four Grand Slam titles.

In her first two matches, Hardenne dropped just four games.

Friday's match was briefly interrupted at 5-2 in the first set when a ball girl fainted as the temperature reached 27 C. She received treatment on the side of the court.




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