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MELBOURNE, JAN. 20. He's either Lucky Lleyton or it's the Curse of Hewitt. For the third match in a row, Lleyton Hewitt's opponent has retired. It happened first in the semifinals of the adidas International last week when Martin Verkerk took ill after one set, then the final when Carlos Moya severely injured his ankle at 4-3 in the first, causing him to pull out of the Australian Open. On Tuesday, Hewitt's first-round opponent at the Australian Open, American Cecil Mamiit, came out on the wrong end of a collision with the umpire'e chair, forcing him to quit after losing the first two sets and holding serve in the first game of the third. Hewitt went over to check on Mamiit's wellbeing after the American started limping, and the conversation went like this: ``I said to him, `How bad is it?' and he said: `Just felt it when I ran into the umpire's chair.'' Hewitt said he's seen players come ``pretty close'' to hitting the chair in the past, but never anyone smack into it. Hewitt pointed out that he was leading in each of the three matches when his opponents packed it in.
Moya's verbal serve
Carlos Moya's Australian Open ended before he stepped on court for his opening match. It didn't stop him, however, from delivering a verbal serve at organisers. Moya pulled out of the Open on Monday after his injured right ankle prevented him from playing his first-round match against American James Blake. A disappointed Moya criticised tournament executive director Paul McNamee, accusing him of unfair and inconsiderate treatment, after a request for an extra day to recover was denied. Moya sprained his ankle in the final of the Sydney warm-up event last Saturday. By then Australian Open officials had already decided to schedule the top half of the men's draw for day one and a request by seventh-seeded Moya for an exception was denied. The Spaniard, the 1997 Australian Open runner-up, labelled it as ``unfair.'' ``If I was (Mark) Philippoussis, (Lleyton) Hewitt, or (Andre) Agassi, McNamee would change his mind, for sure,'' Moya was quoted as saying in The Age newspaper. ``I see all the physios here, all the doctors, my own physio. They all said maybe if I could have one more day, I could have chance to play,'' Moya added. ``But I (have) been unlucky because they didn't give me one more day.''
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