Lleyton Hewitt returns from injury to a happy hunting ground this week for one last chance to finetune his game ahead of the US Open.
Hewitt takes on Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu on Wednesday in his opening match at the Cincinnati Masters, a tournament where the veteran Australian has enjoyed success over the years.
Hewitt has reached two finals, three semis and one quarter-final from eight appearances in Cincinnati, where he's only ever lost to fellow former world No.1s Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi, Carlos Moya and Pat Rafter, plus Xavier Malisse and Fabrice Santoro.
The 29-year-old soon-to-be father-of-three is desperate for court time less than a fortnight out from the start of the season's final major, commencing in New York on August 30.
Hewitt, the 2001 Flushing Meadows champion, has played just one-and-a-half matches since falling to world No.3 Novak Djokovic in the fourth round at Wimbledon almost two months ago.
He complained of being unable to push off on his serve after losing his opening match in Atlanta to lowly-ranked Slovak Lukas Lacko and then retired with a calf strain while trailing Colombian Alejandro Falla in the first round last week in Washington.
The Bahamas-based Hewitt, now ranked 30th in the world, faces a tough draw in Cincinnati, where 18 of the world's top 20 players have gathered.
If he gets past surprise Wimbledon quarter-finalist Lu, Hewitt is likely to confront big-hitting Swedish fifth seed Robin Soderling in the second round.
Hewitt, though, can take heart from beating Soderling in Cincinnati last year, before losing to Federer in the quarter-finals.
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A profit that was pretty much purely from the one single bet. without that later stage winner it would have been around £2 loss which would have been fine for me, losing days tend to happen more in the earlier rounds when there are more selections, then it nitpicks the matches in the later rounds to chase on and usually pick up the profit.
The balance is now at another new high of £266.99
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