Tennis career

A right-handed player from Adelaide, Hewitt was highly ranked in junior tennis and represented Australia at the 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games in Edinburgh.^[1]

She had a best singles ranking of 304 in the world on the professional circuit.^[2] In 2001 she featured in the main draws of two WTA Tour tournaments, the Croatian Bol Ladies Open and Belgium's Sanex Trophy, which was followed by home appearances at the 2002 Sydney International and 2005 Gold Coast Hardcourt. Her biggest title win came at Canberra in 2004, where she beat top seed Evie Dominikovic in the final of the $25k tournament.^[3] As a doubles player, she competed as a wildcard in the main draw of the Australian Open every year from 2002 to 2005.

Personal life

During her career, she was in a relationship with Swedish tennis player Joachim Johansson, which lasted for five years.^[4]

In 2010, she married actor Rob Shehadie at a ceremony in Port Douglas.^[5]

Singles (1–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	7 April 2003	Bendigo, Australia	Hard	Rachel McQuillan	5–7, 6–4, 5–7
Runner-up	2.	15 August 2004	Hampstead, United Kingdom	Hard	Sania Mirza	6–4, 1–6, 0–6
Winner	3.	27 September 2004	Canberra, Australia	Clay	Evie Dominikovic	1–6, 6–3, 7–5

Doubles (3–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	3 September 2001	Petange, Luxembourg	Clay	Elke Clijsters	Natallia Dziamidzenka Kika Hogendoorn	6–1, 6–3
Winner	2.	5 August 2002	Rebecq, Belgium	Clay	Elke Clijsters	Leslie Butkiewicz Tessy van de Ven	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	6 March 2004	Warrnambool, Australia	Grass	Casey Dellacqua	Eden Marama Paula Marama	3–6, 6–4, 2–6
Winner	4.	27 April 2004	Bournemouth, United Kingdom	Clay	Nicole Rencken	Raissa Gourevitch Ekaterina Kozhokina	6–1, 7–6(7–3)
Runner-up	5.	31 May 2004	Hilton Head Island, United States	Hard	Tanner Cochran	Cory Ann Avants Varvara Lepchenko	2–6, 6–3, 3–6