Editing Lleyton Hewitt (section)

===2013: Five top ten wins===

Hewitt started off 2013 in Brisbane, where he lost in second round against [[Denis Istomin]] in straight sets. At exhibition event AAMI Kooyong Classic, he defeated [[Milos Raonic]], [[Tomáš Berdych]], and [[Juan Martín del Potro]] en route to claim his second title. At the [[2013 Australian Open – Men's singles|2013 Australian Open]], he suffered his sixth first-round exit in his home slam to No. 9 [[Janko Tipsarević]] in straight sets. Hewitt then played in the Davis Cup against [[Taiwan]] and won in both singles and doubles.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-02/australia-clinches-cup-win-over-taiwan/4497712 | title=Australia clinches Cup win over Taiwan | date=2 February 2013 | publisher=ABC | archive-date=31 October 2016 | access-date=14 August 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031152020/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-02/australia-clinches-cup-win-over-taiwan/4497712 | url-status=live }}</ref>

At [[SAP Open]] in San Jose, he lost his second-round match to [[Sam Querrey]] in a three-set thriller. He also claimed a wild card to play in doubles with fellow Aussie [[Marinko Matosevic]], beating the No. 1 American duo [[Mike Bryan]] and [[Bob Bryan]] in the quarterfinals, before losing to [[Xavier Malisse]] and [[Frank Moser (tennis)|Frank Moser]] in the final. With Hewitt's doubles run in the tournament, he surpassed the 100-wins mark in doubles. He next participated in the [[U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships]] in Memphis. He faced [[Yen-Hsun Lu]] in the opening round, saving two match points to edge Lu in three sets. He lost to [[Denis Istomin]], again in the second round.

At [[BNP Paribas Open]] in Indian Wells, he ousted [[Lukáš Rosol]] and [[John Isner]], before losing to [[Stanislas Wawrinka]]. Hewitt lost to [[Gilles Simon]] in the opening round at [[2013 French Open – Men's singles|Roland Garros]]. After winning the first two sets, he succumbed in five. In his first match at the Aegon Championships Queen's Club, he beat [[Michael Russell (tennis)|Mike Russell]], [[Grigor Dimitrov]], [[Sam Querrey]] and [[Juan Martín del Potro]] (in three sets), to progress to the semi-finals, where he lost to [[Marin Čilić]] in three sets. At [[2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles|Wimbledon]], Hewitt beat top ten player [[Stanislas Wawrinka]] in the first round in straight sets. He was then defeated by German qualifier [[Dustin Brown (tennis)|Dustin Brown]] in the second round in four sets.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/23067886|title=Wimbledon 2013: Lleyton Hewitt knocked out by Dustin Brown|publisher=BBC News|date=26 June 2013|access-date=20 April 2014|archive-date=1 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701023849/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/23067886|url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 2013, he made it to his first final of the year at the Hall-of-Fame Championships, defeating [[Matthew Ebden]], [[Prakash Amritraj]], [[Jan Hernych]], and [[John Isner]] on the way. He was beaten by [[Nicolas Mahut]] having served for the championship at 5–4 in the second set. His form continued at the [[2013 BB&T Atlanta Open|Atlanta Open]], defeating [[Édouard Roger-Vasselin]], [[Rhyne Williams]] and [[Ivan Dodig]] before losing to [[John Isner]] in the semi-finals in three tough sets. His [[2013 US Open – Men's singles|US Open]] run started well, beating [[Brian Baker (tennis)|Brian Baker]] in four sets and following up with a five-set epic upset against fellow former US Open champion [[Juan Martín del Potro]], where Hewitt came back from two sets to one down against the No. 6, winning a fourth set tiebreak and sealing the match 6–1 in the fifth. He beat [[Evgeny Donskoy]] in the third round to set up a fourth round match with [[Mikhail Youzhny]]. Hewitt then lost to Youzhny in five sets, despite leading 4–1 in the fourth set and serving for the match at 5–3 in the fifth set. A measure of the success of Hewitt's 2013 season is the fact that he won the [[John Newcombe|Newcombe medal]] as the most outstanding Australian tennis player in 2013, a year in which he returned to the world's top 100.<ref name="NewcombeMedal"/>