LONDON — American 16-year-old Jordan Lee defeated Cruise Hewitt 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday to develop into the second qualifier to win the Wimbledon males’s title.
Lee turns into the primary qualifier to win a Grand Slam males’s match since Noah Rubin gained at Wimbledon in 2014.
“Standing right here with the trophy means rather a lot as a result of only a few folks know what I have been by the final 12 months and a half, battling a number of accidents,” Lee mentioned in an on-court interview. “A 12 months in the past presently, I used to be sitting on my sofa at residence, not understanding if I might ever play tennis once more.”
Hewitt, 17, is the son of 2002 Wimbledon males’s champion Lleyton Hewitt, who was within the stands on No. 1 courtroom. The Australian bought an early break within the deciding set, however Lee broke again at 4-4 and once more within the closing sport.
He clinched the victory with a backhand winner on his first match level.
Lee turns into the primary American participant to win the lads’s singles title right here since Sameer Banerjee in 2021.
