Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt will lead Australia in their first home since March 2022 when they are facing Belgium in Sydney on 13-14 September.
Sydney, Australia, September 10, 2025 | Jackson Mansell
The Culture AMP Australian Davis Cup team has traveled the long way for the past three and a half years. Since March 2022, Australia has not disputed a draw on a home floor.
This weekend the Australia Davis Cup team returns home to play for a sold-out audience in Ken Rosewall Arena in Sydney and Captain Lleyton Hewitt could no longer be excited about their return home.
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“It’s great to be back,” he said. “We missed at home that we play Davis Cup matches at home, so to come back here … After a pretty hectic year for many of our boys is fantastic, and hopefully we can work to get the job done [against Belgium]. ”
Since the upper hand has been a meeting against Hungary in their most recent home, Australia has won 12 of 18 ties. During that period they finished in second place (2022 and 2023) and reached the semi -final in 2024.
Hewitt believes that the secret behind the recent form of Australia comes down to the team of comrades that is promoted by World No.8 Alex de Minaur.
“I think it will come back to the team culture that we have been able to build and the standards we are trying to set as coaches,” he said. “Alex is also a kind of our play leader, goes there at the Practice Court, at the competition court. The way in which he is able to help the team together in the weeks on the road, it’s not easy.
“It is a very individual sport, tennis, usually outside of it, but these guys get together all the time, and of course I am not always traveling with these guys, so it is important that they stay together as a close group.
“That has been one of the biggest focus. We have come together and I think we have been beaten above our weight division in recent years. We have been terribly close, and the big goal is of course to hopefully win the trophy, and that is what we are trying to do this year.”
The Minaur competes this weekend in his 24th draw and joins Mark Woodforde in the same fourth for most ties that are played for Australia. The 26-year-old played under Hewitt for his entire Davis Cup career and has credited the former World No.1 for his off-Court leadership.
“It was great to be part of this group. From the very first tie as an orange boy, I understood what it meant to be part of the Davis Cup team and how special it is to wear the green and gold and how much you proudly represent your country,” said the Minaur. “It was great to see the passion that he shows every time we set up the green and gold.
“As players it is the type of captain we want to play for and we want to do it well. So it has been great, and hopefully we can do the job.”
The Australian Wallabies captain Harry Wilson and winger Corey Tool-Die A former tennis player of the state-names against Hewitt and the Minaur in a light-hearted hit of Double to promote their international confrontations in Sydney against Argentina and Belgium this weekend.
“The people who can actually wear the green and gold and encourage it to their country, know the pressure and requirements and expectations that are accompanied by wearing that,” said Hewitt.
“To see the passion and the pride that is accompanied by wearing green and gold [which the Wallabies possess] Is something we try to use in our boys, and you see them every time they go outside, so that it is left on the field. “
You can watch the 2nd qualifying match of Davis Cup 2025 between Australia and Belgium on 13-14 September on the Nine network And Bein Sport.
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