Pretoria: Australian-born former tennis Grand Slam champion Bob Hewitt was granted bail yesterday after being sentenced to six years in jail in South Africa for raping and assaulting young girls he coached in the 1980s and 1990s.


Bob Hewitt 

Victims attending the bail hearing reacted with anger to the judge's decision to allow Hewitt to avoid prison for at least a month after his lawyers argued they needed more time to prepare his appeal.