Australia’s Cruz Hewitt has reached the Wimbledon boys’ final – 24 years after his father, Lleyton, claimed the men’s singles title.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old beat Dutch player Thijs Boogaard 6-4 6-4 to set up a title decider on Sunday against American Jordan Lee.<\/p>\n
It was Hewitt’s fifth successive straight-set win at this year’s championships, and he has been taken to a tie-break just once in that impressive run.<\/p>\n
Hewitt has been supported at court-side during the tournament by Lleyton, who beat David Nalbandian in the 2002 Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n
Former world number one Lleyton also won the 2001 US Open and reached the final of the 2005 Australian Open.<\/p>\n
Cruz, meanwhile, made his senior Grand Slam debut at the 2025 Australian Open after being given a wildcard into qualifying, but lost in the first round.<\/p>\n
“When my dad played, we were here for a while and I was always at the tennis,” Cruz told the Wimbledon website.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to watch all the matches, just be around all the Australian players as well and I was fortunate enough to be here from such a young age.”<\/p>\n
He has now become Australia’s first boys’ singles finalist at Wimbledon since world number six Alex de Minaur in 2016.<\/p>\n
Final opponent Lee won 6-3 6-2 against Germany’s Vincent Reisach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s Cruz Hewitt has reached the Wimbledon boys’ final – 24 years after his father, Lleyton, claimed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-755082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}