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These old men anything but grumpy

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

WIMBLEDON, England -- Lleyton Hewitt looked awfully spry when he surprised 20-year-old Juan Martin Del Potro in the third round here. Afterward, Hewitt sounded old -- positively ancient -- talking about the cranky left hip that required surgery and cost him more than six months of playing time. "It comes with age," Hewitt said. "You get a lot more niggles. You've just got to do the recovery. It seems like you've got to ice a lot more spots on your body these days than I had to eigh ...

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