{"id":795765,"date":"2026-07-12T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:03:10","slug":"lleyton-hewitt-unable-to-lift-cruz-as-wimbledon-boys-crown-slips-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795765\/","title":{"rendered":"Lleyton Hewitt unable to lift Cruz as Wimbledon boys crown slips away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cruz Hewitt has fallen agonisingly short in the Wimbledon boys final.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old was the first Australian to make a Wimbledon boys final since Alex de Minaur in 2016, but suffered the same fate as the Demon a decade ago as he lost in three ultra-tight sets to American Jordan Lee. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 24 years since his father Lleyton Hewitt won the Wimbledon men\u2019s singles title and Cruz\u2019s parents rode every shot with him in the final. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/9d85c40c9d0401acb969f49da03724f4\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"6-year-old Cruz Hewitt hits with Roger Federer\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cruz has been a popular figure at the All England Club with <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/cruz-hewitt-blasts-his-way-into-wimbledon-final-in-straight-sets\/news-story\/e6f62ce486b41b73b7c3b8055bbe47c6\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.news.com.au\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"e6f62ce486b41b73b7c3b8055bbe47c6\" data-tgev-label=\"sport\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roger Federer\u2019s children cheering him on.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hewitt won the first set 6-4 before dropping the second 6-4. Both players had won 70 points each after two sets, showing the razor-thin margins in the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Lee took the third 7-5. <\/p>\n<p>Follow below for live updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cruz Hewitt has fallen agonisingly short in the Wimbledon boys final. The 17-year-old was the first Australian to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-795765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}