I can understand why. He's bold and brash, supremely confident, wise in a street smart way, questions and challenges those in authority, and seems to be quite self centred. He just happens to be a great tennis player.
And then I thought about all those Australians who I travelled with in Germany...thousands of them. They all had exaclty the same characteristics as those described above. The only difference is that they were just football fans, not a Top 10 tennis player.
I was talking to an Aussie student in the bar last night about my Lleyton theory....
Me: "I don't mind Lleyton."
Male student from Melbourne Uni: "Yeah but he hasn't got a humble bone in his body"
Me (sounding like a letter writer to the Telegraph): From what I've seen, a lot of Aussie guys who are 20-25 aren't very humble"
Male student: "Well I'm definitely not humble! (he wasn't). I still don't like him though."
What happened to being humble? Has it disappeared? Has it just been kicked to the side by those 20-somethings and been replaced by the Super-Confident Stuff Everyone Else Attitude?
Was I like that? Or am I just getting old?
Anyway, all this begs the question. Is Lleyton Hewitt the epitomy of twenty-something Australian males? As much as we despise him, are we just recoiling at the ugly truth?
As a marketer, I think it's sometimes important to remember who our Aussie male target really is. So when it comes to responding to advertising, they might think and act a bit differently to the witty ad from a 26 year old English copywriter who's been living in Bondi for 2 years and who over-uses the word "brilliant".
It's something I'll be keeping in mind if I ever get to do some strategic planning for the relaunch of the Chiko Roll or a Holden Ute.
Lleyton often gets motivated for the big points by imagining himself eating a giant Chiko Roll and thrusting it into his forehead
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