Because he used his racism card on a black lines man & James Blake. Yet NOTHING was done to him.
Humm 🤔
I guess it was because of HIS sense of WHITE MALE ENTITLEMENT, which served him WELL because nothing happened to him. He won the tournament and slurred a black lines man and James Blake.
Got away with it.
I actually follow tennis on the regular. Have this past 51 years. Anyway, I'm STILL waiting for HIM to be defaulted for his racist remarks about that lines person/Blake 17 years later. I'm still waiting for him to be fined for his racist remarks. Hewitt was a complete jerk on the tennis court as well. White Male privileges.
Hewitt not fined for tirade.
NEW YORK — U.S. Open officials decided Saturday not to discipline Lleyton Hewitt for his tirade during a five-set victory a day earlier, saying it was unclear whether his comments were racially motivated.
Because evidence was inconclusive, Hewitt didn't violate the Grand Slam code of conduct, tournament referee Brian Earley said.
Playing on Friday against James Blake, one of the few blacks in the event, Hewitt complained after being called for two foot faults by a black linesman and requested that the official be removed.
Television microphones caught the Australian saying to the chair umpire: "Look at him. Look at him, and you tell me what the similarity is. Just get him off the court."
Some observers, including Blake, thought Hewitt was noting that the linesman and Blake were both black. But the umpire, Andreas Egli, inferred no racial overtones, Earley said.
Hewitt told officials Saturday what he meant by the comment was that the same linesman made both foot-fault calls.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/861873/Hewitt-not-fined-for-tirade.html
White males breaking the rules again and getting away with it. AGAIN. What's else is new 
In any event, it doesn't for an instant excuse what Hewitt said or the complete lack of backbone shown by tennis authorities in dealing with him. He probably should have been defaulted on the spot -- the rule book allows for immediate default for "gross misconduct," and this was about as gross as you can get. To then listen to the tape and take no action is inexcusable.
James Blake chose to take the high road, saying that things get said in the heat of battle and no hard feelings. He's entitled to feel that way. But there should be hard feelings. Hewitt is a spoiled, arrogant tennis prodigy surrounded by excuse-makers who blame everyone but him when he gets into trouble. (This was not a first, just the worst.) By the end of the tournament, the TV announcers were actually heard saying that Hewitt had "overcome" the controversy of the first week. Overcome? Oh, please.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2001/09/11/hewitts-fault/a9e7bd0b-91b7-4952-bd56-7d36243b0ece/?utm_term=.c19780e535c7
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