One of the perks of being a successful junior at the business end of a grand slam event is that you often get to practise with some of the men who are deep in the main draw. For Cruz Hewitt at Wimbledon, that meant Arthur Fery.
The 17-year-old Australian jumped at the chance to practise with Fery, the British wildcard who was playing in the semi-finals here on Friday, this week and repeated the trick just before his last-four match in the boys’ event. It worked wonders for Hewitt, whose increasingly impressive all-round game was in tune as he knocked off Thijs Boogaard of the Netherlands, one of the brightest junior prospects. His 6-4, 6-4 win sent him through to the final.
