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Former champ heating up at right time

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 29, 2006

WIMBLEDON, England -- It was only a second-round match, but when it was over, Lleyton Hewitt's reaction suggested he might have been feeling a little pressure. His standard "Come on!" was a snarling, amped-up "Come ooonnnnnnnnn!" -- as though he were falling off a cliff -- then he rendered a furious triple fist pump before bounding to the net to congratulate Hyung-Taik Lee. Say this about Hewitt: He wins the matches he's supposed to win -- a commodity champions invariably possess. ...

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