{"id":759462,"date":"2026-07-13T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759462\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:08:08","slug":"american-16-year-old-jordan-lee-wins-wimbledon-juniors-tournament-as-a-qualifier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759462\/","title":{"rendered":"American 16-year-old Jordan Lee wins Wimbledon juniors tournament as a qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 American 16-year-old Jordan Lee became only the second qualifier to win the Wimbledon boys\u2019 title after rallying to beat Cruz Hewitt 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Lee is the first qualifier to win any Grand Slam boys\u2019 tournament since Noah Rubin did it at Wimbledon in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStanding here with the trophy means a lot because very few people know what I\u2019ve been through this past year and a half, dealing with a lot of injuries,\u201d Lee said in an on-court interview. \u201cA year ago at this time I was sitting at home on the couch, didn\u2019t know if I was going to play tennis again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old Hewitt is the son of 2002 Wimbledon men\u2019s champion Lleyton Hewitt, who was in the stands at No. 1 Court. The Australian was up an early break in the deciding set but Lee broke back for 4-4 and then again in the final game. <\/p>\n<p>He sealed the victory with a backhand winner up the line on his first match point. <\/p>\n<p>Lee is the first American player to win the boys\u2019 singles title here since Samir Banerjee in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 American 16-year-old Jordan Lee became only the second qualifier to win the Wimbledon boys\u2019 title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[170124,324912,134423,271230,324913,99,428,96,2467],"class_list":["post-759462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-cruz-hewitt","tag-jordan-lee","tag-lleyton-hewitt","tag-noah-rubin","tag-samir-banerjee","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759462","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=759462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}