ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orlando native Jordan Lee is back training at the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) headquarters in Lake Nona after winning the Wimbledon boys title in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very special,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI’ve been dealing with a lot of stuff, a lot of injuries over the past year-and-a-half. It was a pretty emotional moment and really, really happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee, 16, won the title in dramatic fashion, rallying to win 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Before reaching the final, he had to win a qualifier to get into the tournament, becoming the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam boys tournament since 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone was by my side \u2014 my family, all the staff from USTA \u2014 and I think I built a lot of resilience and learned a lot from that time,” Lee said. “That’s probably the thing that I remember most.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee said it took a few days for the Wimbledon victory to sink in.<\/p>\n
While he enjoyed the win, he said he is not taking time off and has returned to practicing at USTA in Lake Nona.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first day or two was a bit hectic,\u201d Lee said. \u201cA lot of people reaching out to say congratulations, which I’m really grateful for. But nothing has changed. I enjoyed the night of the victory and the night after, and just ready to get back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee said the win gives him more confidence as he prepares for upcoming tournaments. His long-term goal is to one day play in the Wimbledon men\u2019s tournament and hold another trophy at Centre Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orlando native Jordan Lee is back training at the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) headquarters in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1238,274,1236,115,139,141,140,275,110,1237,32029,278,835],"class_list":["post-365742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida-sports","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tennis","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}