Hewitt? Deposit? Sometimes there is a familiar-sounding name on the list of participants at a tennis tournament that reminds you of a different era in the sport.
Lleyton Hewitt’s son Cruz is the latest player to have a parent who has passed the racket on to their children.
16-year-old Cruz Hewitt has been given a wildcard for the qualifying tournament for next month’s Australian Open, a tournament where two-time Grand Slam champion Lleyton finished runner-up in 2005.
Former world number one Hewitt became the youngest male player to qualify for the Australian Open in 1997, just a month before his 16th birthday.
BBC Sport takes a look at other parent-child tennis duos.
A warning: it may make you feel old!
Casper Ruud, son of Christian Ruud
Casper Ruud, a three-time Grand Slam runner-up, is the son of former Norwegian number one Christian Ruud.
Casper became the first Norwegian to win an ATP Tour title at the Argentina Open in 2020, overtaking his father as the highest-ranked player from Norway.
After reaching the finals of the French Open and US Open two years later, Casper achieved a career-high ranking of number two in the world.
Casper, 25, reached the quarter-finals of the men’s singles at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, becoming the first Norwegian player to reach that stage.
Sebastian Korda, son of Petr Korda
In 2023, Sebastian Korda reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open, where his father and former world number two Petr Korda won 25 years earlier.
Sebastian, 24, has won two ATP singles titles and a doubles title at the 2024 Madrid Open and is ranked 23rd in the world.
He and Petr became the first father-son duo to rank in the top 20 after Sebastian’s win at the Washington Open in August.
Sebastian’s sisters Nelly and Jessica are both professional golfers, with Nelly being ranked number one in the world.
Leo Borg, son of Bjorn Borg
Leo Borg’s father Bjorn is one of the greatest tennis stars of all time, having won 11 Grand Slam singles titles and spent 109 weeks at the top of the world rankings.
Ranked 546th in the world, Leo has only competed on the ATP Tour three times, making his debut in Stockholm, the city of his birth, in 2021.
Two years later he achieved his first victory at that level, beating compatriot Elias Ymer in Bastad in straight sets.
Leo, 21, also competed against Rafael Nadal in Stockholm this year, with the 22-time Grand Slam champion describing it as a “huge honor to play against the son of one of the greatest legends in the history of our sport” .
Brandon Holt, son of Tracy Austin
American Holt pulled off a huge upset at the 2022 US Open, ousting in-form 10th seed Taylor Fritz in the first round.
Holt, 26, had cleared qualifying to reach the main draw of his home major, and the win was his first at the top level.
His mother Tracy Austin is a two-time US Open winner who defeated four-time defending champion Chris Evert in 1979 to become champion at just 16 years of age.
Holt reached the second round of the Australian Open in 2023 and has returned to the top 200 in the world after playing on the Challenger tour.
Elizabeth Mandlik, daughter of Hana Mandlikova
Hana Mandlikova is a four-time singles champion and one of only thirteen women in the Open era to reach the finals of all four Slams.
Mandlikova became the first US Open women’s singles winner in the Open era to have her daughter play at the same tournament when Elizabeth made her New York debut in 2022.
Mandlik, 23, won her match in the first round and lost to eventual runner-up Ons Jabeur in the second.
She has won seven singles titles on the ITF women’s circuit and has a career-high ranking of 97.
Future stars?
It could very well be that there will be more young people with tennis star parents.
The 10-year-old son Stefan of Serbian former world number one Novak Djokovic has been playing for a while. He won a club tournament a few years ago and has been seen on the practice courts at Wimbledon with his father.
The eldest daughter of American 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams, Olympia is a natural at sports, according to her mother, but she prefers to play golf.
Meanwhile, tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf have consciously chosen not to force their children to play the sport.
Graf – a 22-time singles champion – said the pair had “never introduced so much tennis in their lives”.
Agassi wrote in his autobiography Open about how strict his own father was, saying in 2024, “The idea that a parent would tie a child’s right to love in this world based on his or her achievements is a tragedy.”
“Isn’t it crazy what someone has to do to be a professional at the age of 16?”
