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Bob Hewitt in court on charges of rape and sexual assault


One of tennis grand slam champion Bob Hewitt's alleged victims has told the High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court how he allegedly abused her on a tennis training trip to Sun City.

The woman told the court Hewitt was her tennis coach from the age of 12 to 13, when she lived in Bedfordview, Johannesburg.
   
She said that after tennis lessons, Hewitt would French kiss her, telling her he loved her.
 
She testified that he also instructed her how to perform sexual acts with him in his Sun City hotel room.

Hewitt, now in his 70's sat quietly in the dock, supported by his wife.
 
The  resident of Addo in the Eastern Cape faces two counts of rape and one of sexual assault.