{"id":834328,"date":"2026-07-30T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:07:10","slug":"tennis-news-alex-de-minaur-beats-cruz-hewitt-at-washington-open-in-all-australian-second-round-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834328\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis news, Alex de Minaur beats Cruz Hewitt at Washington Open in all Australian second round match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur<\/a> has knocked rising teenage Aussie star Cruz Hewitt<\/a> out of the Washington Open in the second round.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old went up against the 17-year-old son of tennis<\/a> legend Lleyton<\/a> on Friday morning and was victorious 6-2, 6-3 to reach the third round.<\/p>\n

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Alex de Minaur of Australia and Cruz Hewitt of Australia embrace following their men\u2019s singles match.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

It is Hewitt\u2019s ATP Tour tournament debut.<\/p>\n

The pair have been close for Hewitt\u2019s entire life given Lleyton has worked closely with de Minaur and mentored him throughout his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to play (each other) for the next 10 years of our lives,\u201d de Minaur said to Hewitt after their match.<\/p>\n

The world No.6 admitted it was strange playing against someone who has basically been a little brother to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely weird,\u201d De Minaur said in his on-court interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I was going to play him on the tour some day, but I didn\u2019t actually expect it to be this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an amazing feeling. Even all the lead up,\u00a0seeing all the incredible pictures that we have together\u00a0and how we\u2019ve both grown up. I\u2019m glad I managed to get through, but I\u2019m sure we\u2019re going to have many battles in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lleyton, Australia\u2019s two-time grand slam winner and former world No.1, was watching on from the stands as his son played his protege.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old finished runner-up in the Wimbledon boys tournament recently and was making his ATP Tour debut in Washington.<\/p>\n

He plans to go through qualifying or hopes to earn a wildcard to make his Australian Open senior debut in January.<\/p>\n

De Minaur is the defending champion in Washington and now faces Brandon Nakashima in the third round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur has knocked rising teenage Aussie star Cruz Hewitt out of the Washington Open in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-834328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834328","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=834328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}