PERTH, Australia, Jan 4 - Australian tennis fans
need not hold their breath for a full-time return to action for
Pat Rafter, the country's number two Lleyton Hewitt said on
Sunday.
Former U.S. Open champion Rafter has been coaxed out of
retirement to play doubles with his friend, Joshua Eagle, at
next week's AAPT Championships in Adelaide and the Australian
Open at Melbourne Park later this month.
But Hewitt said that his friend Rafter was not planning a
serious comeback and that his brief reappearance will merely
tease his fans.
"I don't really know why Pat is playing doubles," Hewitt
smiled. "It is good in a way I suppose but in another way people
will get to see him briefly and then he will just disappear
again."