Lleyton Hewitt enjoyed a 6-1 6-0 victory over Eduardo Schwank in the first round of the AEGON Championships at Queen's Club.
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Lleyton Hewitt enjoyed a 6-1 6-0 victory over Eduardo Schwank in the first round of the AEGON Championships at Queen's Club.
The Australian, a four-time former winner of the grass-court event, needed just 22 minutes to secure the first set against Argentina's Schwank.
Hewitt, the former world number one who has won six of his 27 career titles on grass, gave Schwank, ranked 109, little opportunity to get into the match, which was concluded after only 44 minutes when Hewitt took the second set with dropping a game.
British duo Josh Goodall and Jamie Ward, meanwhile, found the opposition too tough and went out in straight sets.
Goodall lost to Luxembourg left-hander Gilles Muller 6-3 7-6 after squandering four chances to secure the second set.
Chances
"I felt I should have won the second set," he said. "I was 6-3 up in the tie-break. I'm not playing unbelievable tennis but I felt I should have won that set. At this level you have to win the point.
"If I can keep on getting myself in these sort of tournaments, then I think eventually I can get over the hill and get used to it."
British number four Ward found the power of Cypriot wild-card entry Marcos Baghdatis too much to cope with and went down 6-2 6-3.
But the 22-year-old Middlesex player, ranked 220 in the world, has already set his sights on getting a wild-card into this year's Wimbledon.
"At the end of the day, it's up to them, up to the All England Club," said Ward. "I hope I've done enough all year round and my recent results have been enough to push for one."
Elsewhere on the opening day, Spanish left-hander Feliciano Lopez overcame American Robert Kendrick 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-3).
It was Lopez's first victory at the Queen's Club in four attempts and he showed glimpses of the form that propelled him to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last year.
