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Bec Hewitt is suffering in silence as she spends days and nights alone and in tears.

Lonely days, lonelier nights and constant separation from her husband are pushing Bec Hewitt to the point of an emotional breakdown, close friends say.

With a punishing schedule and a desire to prove his harshest critics wrong and win a title this year, Lleyton is once again putting tennis back at the top of his list of priorities, and Bec is being left out in the cold.

“She’s always alone, even when she’s travelling with Lleyton,” says a source. “If he’s not playing or practising, he’s doing interviews or being coached. She might as well not be there.”

Not the first “sporting widow” to struggle with the demands of her husband’s career, Bec has tried to put on a brave face for Lleyton, but has been unable to hold back her tears recently.

Read the full story in Woman’s Day (on-sale February 18, 2008)

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