Editing Lleyton Hewitt (section)

===Davis Cup===
Hewitt made his [[Davis Cup]] debut for [[Australia Davis Cup team|Australia]] in the [[1999 Davis Cup]] quarterfinals at age 18 against the [[United States Davis Cup team|United States]] in [[Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts]]. In the first rubber of the tie Hewitt faced No. 8 and Wimbledon quarter finalist [[Todd Martin]]. Hewitt caused a major upset over Martin and would go on to win his second singles rubber against Alex O'Brien as well. The great start to his Davis Cup career would continue in the 1999 semi-finals against [[Russia Davis Cup team|Russia]] where he would record another two wins against [[Marat Safin]] and [[Yevgeny Kafelnikov]]. He would taste his first defeat in Davis Cup in the 1999 final against [[France Davis Cup team|France]] but would become a Davis Cup champion anyway. In [[2000 Davis Cup|2000]] Hewitt and Australia would again make the Davis Cup final but fell to [[Spain Davis Cup team|Spain]] in Barcelona.

In [[2001 Davis Cup|2001]] Hewitt would again be a part of the Australian team that would make the Davis Cup final but the Australians would lose the fifth rubber and hand France a 3–2 win. Determined to make amends for his last few finals, Hewitt led the Australian team to the [[2003 Davis Cup]] final against Spain where he defeated [[Juan Carlos Ferrero]] in five sets. The team came away victorious 3–1 overall and Hewitt claimed his second Davis Cup title. By the age of 22, he had recorded more wins in Davis Cup singles than any other Australian player. Following the retirement of [[Pat Rafter]] and the semi-retirement of [[Mark Philippoussis]], Hewitt would be forced to lead the Australian Davis Cup team with little success from his peers. In the 2006 quarterfinals in Melbourne, Hewitt defeated Belarusian [[Vladimir Voltchkov]] in just 91 minutes. Voltchkov said before the match that "Hewitt has no weapons to hurt me." Hewitt responded, "Voltchkov doesn't have a ranking [of 457] to hurt me." In the semi-finals in [[Buenos Aires]] on clay, Hewitt lost to Argentine [[José Acasuso]] in five sets.

Despite a world group semi-final appearance in 2006, Hewitt and Australia would be relegated to the Asia/Oceania region in 2008. Hewitt continued showed his commitment to the team by competing in the regional ties but the team fell in the playoff stages every year between 2008 and 2011. In the 2011 playoffs, he played against [[Roger Federer]] and [[Stanislas Wawrinka]] on a grass court in Sydney, losing both matches. In doubles, together with [[Chris Guccione (tennis)|Chris Guccione]], he was able to defeat Federer and Wawrinka, but this was not enough to take Australia to the World Group.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/archives/old-sport-pages/players-left-in-the-dark-as-davis-cup-tie-suspended-because-of-bad-light/story-e6frfgao-1226140133272|title=Stanislas Wawrinka seals Davis Cup win over Australia in three minutes|date=19 September 2012|work=Herald Sun|access-date=2 August 2012|first=Leo|last=Schlink}}</ref>

In 2012, Hewitt won his single and doubles match against China in February, which allowed Australia to return to the playoffs where they lost to Germany. After defeating Chinese Taipei and Uzbekistan, Australia earned the right to get to the playoffs again in 2013. They ended up routing Poland 4–1 on their soil including a convincing 6–1 6–3 6–2 win for Hewitt over recent Wimbledon quarterfinalist [[Łukasz Kubot]].<ref name="daviscup">{{cite web|url=https://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2013-WG-PO-AUS-POL-01|title=Davis Cup – Draw & Results|publisher=daviscup.com|access-date=8 April 2015|archive-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406201753/http://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2013-WG-PO-AUS-POL-01|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, Australia crashed out 5–0 in the World Group first round on the French clay of La Roche-sur-Yon. [[Jo-Wilfried Tsonga]] beat Hewitt both in singles and doubles.<ref name="daviscup2">{{cite web|url=https://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2014-WG-M-FRA-AUS-01|title=Davis Cup – Draw & Results|publisher=daviscup.com|access-date=8 April 2015|archive-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406203317/http://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2014-WG-M-FRA-AUS-01|url-status=live}}</ref> Perth's grass courts would then be hosting yet another playoff tie for Australia in September 2014. Hewitt won both his singles match (against [[Farrukh Dustov]]) and the subsequent doubles rubber (partnering [[Chris Guccione (tennis)|Chris Guccione]] v. Dustov and Istomin) in straight sets while up and coming [[Nick Kyrgios]] won his encounter with [[Denis Istomin]] to give Australia an unassailable 3–0 lead over Uzbekistan, thus enabling their country to return to the World Group in 2015. [[Sam Groth]] and Nick Kyrgios wrapped up a 5–0 victory a day later.<ref name="daviscup3">{{cite web|url=https://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2014-WG-PO-AUS-UZB-01|title=Davis Cup – Draw & Results|publisher=daviscup.com|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> Australia will open their 2015 campaign in Czech Republic for a 6–8 March tie that is one of two worst-case scenarios for Australia.<ref name="heraldsun">{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/tennis/davis-cup-australia-face-tough-task-against-czech-republic/story-fnibcgxs-1227063583711|title=Davis Cup: Australia face tough task against Czech Republic|work=Herald Sun|access-date=8 April 2015|archive-date=27 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927083952/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/tennis/davis-cup-australia-face-tough-task-against-czech-republic/story-fnibcgxs-1227063583711|url-status=live}}</ref>

Hewitt played the Davis Cup match against Great Britain in the semi-finals of the [[2015 Davis Cup]]. He played doubles with [[Sam Groth]] losing in five sets to brothers [[Andy Murray|Andy]] and [[Jamie Murray]].<ref>{{Cite news|title = Murray hails Hewitt after ending his Davis Cup career|url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-21/murray-hails-hewitt-after-ending-his-davis-cup-career/6790914|work = ABC News|date = 20 September 2015|access-date = 21 September 2015}}</ref>

He came out of retirement to play the first round match against the United States at the [[2016 Davis Cup]] as a player-captain, where he and partner [[John Peers]] lost to the [[Bryan brothers]] in a five-setter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2016-WG-M-USA-AUS-01|title=Davis Cup – Draw & Results|publisher=daviscup.com|access-date=8 April 2015|archive-date=20 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720074024/http://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2016-WG-M-USA-AUS-01|url-status=live}}</ref>

He competed in the [[2018 Davis Cup World Group play-offs]], again as a player-captain in doubles with Peers. They won the rubber against the Austrian duo [[Oliver Marach]] and [[Jürgen Melzer]] in four sets.

Hewitt is the sole holder of several Australian Davis Cup records, which include most wins, most singles wins, most ties played and most years played.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.daviscup.com/en/teams/team.aspx?id=AUS|title=Davis Cup – Teams|publisher=daviscup.com|access-date=8 April 2015|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916114150/http://www.daviscup.com/en/teams/team.aspx?id=AUS|url-status=live}}</ref> His Davis Cup career has included wins over players who were top ten at the time, which include [[Todd Martin]], [[Marat Safin]], [[Yevgeny Kafelnikov]], [[Roger Federer]], [[Gustavo Kuerten]], [[Sébastien Grosjean]] and [[Juan Carlos Ferrero]].