{"id":828426,"date":"2026-07-27T03:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T03:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:30:39","slug":"tennis-news-2026-cruz-hewitt-qualifies-for-washington-atp-tournament-could-face-alex-de-minaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828426\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis News 2026: Cruz Hewitt qualifies for Washington ATP tournament; Could face Alex de Minaur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cruz Hewitt has taken the next big step in his development as a tennis player, booking a main draw slot in an ATP Tour event in America.<\/p>\n

It comes following the 17-year-old\u2019s run to the final of the Wimbledon junior singles<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\"17-year-old<\/p>\n

17-year-old Cruz Hewitt has played his last junior tournament. \u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

The son of Lleyton Hewitt<\/a>, Cruz earned a qualifying spot into the Masters 500 tournament in Washington DC, after his American opponent retired hurt in the third set.<\/p>\n

Hewitt fought back after dropping the first set to local US hope Zachary Svajda 1-6. The Aussie took the second set in a tiebreaker before the retirement of the world No.73.<\/p>\n

The ATP Tour tournament is loaded, featuring top American seeds Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul, Italian Lorenzo Musetti as well as Aussie Alex de Minaur<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Hewitt could find himself facing the top Aussie seed in the second round, if he is able to get through American 33-year-old Marcos Giron in the first round.<\/p>\n

Nearly twice his age, it will prove to be a great learning opportunity for the rising Australian regardless.<\/p>\n

Hewitt will take home $27,000 for making it to the main draw of the tournament and will jump nearly 100 spots up the ATP rankings towards the top 500. He currently sits at 615.<\/p>\n

De Minaur has drawn an awkward match-up in the first round of the tournament, facing off against Greek star Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n

Fellow Australian Alexander Vukic will also take part in the tournament and face off against Svajda, who was granted a lucky loser entry spot despite his qualifying withdrawal.<\/p>\n

The tournament main draw gets underway on Tuesday (AEST), with Hewitt and De Minaur\u2019s matches yet to be scheduled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cruz Hewitt has taken the next big step in his development as a tennis player, booking a main…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-828426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}