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SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia's past concern sort digit Lleyton Hewitt module endeavor finished the pain at this month's land Open as he returns to sport after surgery, his railcar Tony Roche said on Monday.

Hewitt, 30, is thinking to contest the claycourt noble shut at Roland Garros which starts on May 17 despite not playing for more than digit months.

The two-time noble shut champion underwent foot surgery in March but the 66th-ranked Hewitt is once again prepared to endeavor finished the pain barrier.

"I think he's utilised to that. Look, he'd be the toughest competitor that I've seen," Roche told reporters.

"He's had a aggregation of setbacks over the terminal couple of eld but he keeps peppy back.

"He keeps wanting to improve and he's so keen, which is enthusiastic for Australian sport because we need him to secure in there."

Last year, Hewitt was sidelined for almost four months mass a ordinal round of hip surgery and a articulatio activeness before upstaging Roger Federer on grass in the metropolis test and then almost fighting Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon.

He reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 US Open despite a articulatio trauma that threatened his participation.

"It's his first tournament backwards from his operation. It's a bounteous ask, but he could do it if he got the correct draw," Hewitt said.

"Unfortunately, he's not feat to be planted so you've got to rely on a beatific lawmaking finished that first hebdomad and not streaming into the crowning threesome or four guys.

"But Lleyton is ease as stabbing as ever. He feels in the noble slams, given the correct opportunity, that he crapper ease be combative with the crowning guys."

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