Hewitt courting trouble after surface botch-up

Lleyton Hewitt's plan to match the new court surface of the Australian Open by constructing one in the backyard of his 2.5-million-dollar Sydney estate has apparently gone wrong.
 
Sydney media report that the Australian's new court has ended up by being covered with the wrong surface.
 
Instead of the "True Blue" Plexicushion to be used at the season's first Grand Slam starting January 14, Hewitt's court was surfaced with a competing product to the ire of the former number one.
 
The botched job set the millionaire back around 45,000 dollars, with the Sydney Sun-Herald reporting that it was his father Glenn's responsibility to see that the job was done to spec.
 
The new Plexicushion in Melbourne is said to be considerably faster than Rebound Ace, which has drawn years of complaints from Hewitt.
 
Said the paper, quoting a source: "Lleyton's court is as slow as a wet week. He's immensely, immensely disappointed. It's not what he expected and not what he wanted."
 
With no time to put things right before January, Hewitt will now be changing his training program with coach Tony Roche and spending many of his days at the Homebush Bay arena, where the courts are correctly surfaced since they were done under supervision of Tennis Australia.
 
"I haven't seen the court at Lleyton's home, but my understanding is that it was not built by the same company we used for our courts in Melbourne," the paper quoted Australian Open director Craig Tiley as saying. "The WM Loud company are the only suppliers of this court in Australia."