Roger Federer’s Twitter tribute to Lleyton Hewitt goes wrong

Updated 29/06/2015 at 17:40 GMT

Roger Federer was trying to pay tribute to Lleyton Hewitt after his last Wimbledon match... but it went a bit wrong.

Roger Federer of Switzerland practices at Wimbledon. REUTERS/Toby Melville

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Following the Australian’s five-set defeat to Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen, Federer tweeted both players saying ‘thanks for the fight’.

Unfortunately the Swiss master got 34-year-old Hewitt’s nationality wrong, putting ‘NZ’ for New Zealand by his name instead of ‘AU’ for Australia.

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He quickly corrected himself of course, but will be hoping there won’t be any more minor slips when he steps on court against Damir Džumhur in the first round.

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