Hewitt, Borg and others following their tennis parents

Hewitt? Borg? There is sometimes a familiar-sounding sanction connected a tennis tourney introduction database that reminds you of a different era successful the sport.

Lleyton Hewitt's boy Cruz is the latest subordinate pinch a genitor who has passed the racquet connected to their children.

Cruz Hewitt, 16, has been fixed a wildcard for the qualifying arena for adjacent month's Australian Open, an tourney wherever two-time Grand Slam champion Lleyton was a runner-up successful 2005.

Former world number 1 Hewitt became the youngest antheral subordinate to suffice for the Australian Open successful 1997, conscionable 1 period earlier his 16th birthday.

BBC Sport takes a look astatine different parent-child tennis duos.

A connection of warning: it mightiness make you consciousness old!

Three-time Grand Slam runner-up Casper Ruud is the boy of erstwhile Norwegian number 1 Christian Ruud.

Casper became the first Norwegian to triumph an ATP Tour title successful 2020 astatine the Argentina Open, overtaking his begetter arsenic the highest-ranked subordinate from Norway.

After reaching the finals of the French Open and US Open 2 years later, Casper achieved a career-high ranking of world number two.

Casper, 25, reached the men's singles quarter-finals of the 2024 Paris Olympics, becoming the first Norwegian subordinate to get to that stage.

In 2023 Sebastian Korda reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open, wherever 25 years earlier his begetter and erstwhile world number 2 Petr Korda won.

Sebastian, 24, has won 2 ATP singles titles arsenic good arsenic a doubles title astatine the 2024 Madrid Open and is classed 23rd successful the world.

He and Petr became the first father-son duo to person been classed successful the apical 20 aft Sebastian's triumph astatine the Washington Open successful August.

Sebastian's sisters Nelly and Jessica are some master golfers, pinch Nelly classed number 1 successful the world.

Leo Borg's begetter Bjorn is 1 of tennis' all-time greats, having won 11 Grand Slam singles titles and spent 109 weeks astatine the apical of the world rankings.

Ranked 546th successful the world, Leo has made conscionable 3 appearances connected the ATP Tour, making his debut successful Stockholm, the metropolis of his birth, successful 2021.

He claimed his first triumph astatine that level 2 years later, beating compatriot Elias Ymer successful Bastad successful consecutive sets.

Leo, 21, besides competed against Rafael Nadal successful Stockholm this year, pinch the 22-time Grand Slam champion describing it arsenic a "huge honour to play against the boy of 1 of the biggest legends successful the history of our sport".

American Holt caused a immense daze astatine the 2022 US Open, ousting in-form 10th seed Taylor Fritz successful the first round.

Holt, 26, had travel done qualifying to scope the main tie of his location major, and the triumph was his first astatine the apical level.

His mum Tracy Austin is simply a two-time US Open winner, memorably beating four-time defending champion Chris Evert successful 1979 to go champion aged conscionable 16.

Holt reached the 2nd information of the Australian Open successful 2023 and has moved backmost into the world's apical 200 aft playing connected the Challenger tour.

Hana Mandlikova is simply a four-time awesome singles champion and is 1 of only 13 women successful the Open era to scope the finals of each 4 Slams.

Mandlikova became the first US Open women's singles victor successful the Open era to person her girl play astatine the aforesaid tourney erstwhile Elizabeth made her New York debut successful 2022.

Mandlik, 23, won her first-round lucifer and mislaid to eventual runner-up Ons Jabeur successful the second.

She has won 7 singles titles connected the women's ITF circuit and has a career-high ranking of 97.

There could good beryllium much youngsters pinch tennis-star parents coming through.

Serbian erstwhile world number 1 Novak Djokovic's 10-year-old boy Stefan has been playing for a while. He won a nine tourney a mates of years agone and has been seen hitting pinch his dada connected Wimbledon's believe courts.

American 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams' eldest girl Olympia is simply a earthy astatine the sport, according to her mum - but she prefers playing golf.

Meanwhile, tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf made a conscious determination not to effort to unit their children into picking up the sport.

Graf - a 22-time awesome singles champion - said the brace had "never really introduced tennis truthful overmuch successful their lives".

Agassi wrote successful his autobiography Open astir really strict his ain begetter was and said successful 2024, external: "The thought that a genitor would connect a child's correct to beryllium loved successful this world based connected their capacity is simply a tragedy.

"What personification needs to do to beryllium pro astatine 16 years aged is crazy, right?"