Tennis: Hewitt in a spot of bother

Lleyton Hewitt's second round Wimbledon match against South Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee was poised on a knife-edge when bad light stopped play prematurely this morning.

6th-seeded Hewitt and Lee will be the first players out on to court one (at 11.00pm NZT tonight), with the score poised at 6-7, 6-2, 7-6, 6-7.

After losing the first set against the world number 102-ranked Lee, Hewitt fought back to take the next two sets and looked to be well on his way to recording a regulation victory.

But the 2002 Wimbledon champion missed the chance to win the match when serving at 5-4 in the fourth set and will now have to close out the match in the final set.

Lee, who has not progressed beyond the second round of Wimbledon in four previous attempts, took it up to Australia's former world number one, sending through some cracking passing shots as Hewitt struggled to dominate.

- RADIO AUSTRALIA