{"id":50535,"date":"2026-07-23T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/american-qualifier-jordan-lee-16-wins-wimbledon-mens-title\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:29:07","slug":"american-qualifier-jordan-lee-16-wins-wimbledon-mens-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/american-qualifier-jordan-lee-16-wins-wimbledon-mens-title\/","title":{"rendered":"American qualifier Jordan Lee (16) wins Wimbledon men&#8217;s title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; American 16-year-old Jordan Lee defeated Cruise Hewitt 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday to become the second qualifier to win the Wimbledon men&#8217;s title.<\/p>\n<p>Lee becomes the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam men&#8217;s tournament since Noah Rubin won at Wimbledon in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Standing here with the trophy means a lot because very few people know what I&#8217;ve been through the last year and a half, battling a lot of injuries,&#8221; Lee said in an on-court interview. &#8220;A year ago at this time, I was sitting on my couch at home, not knowing if I would ever play tennis again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt, 17, is the son of 2002 Wimbledon men&#8217;s champion Lleyton Hewitt, who was in the stands on No. 1 court. The Australian got an early break in the deciding set, but Lee broke back at 4-4 and again in the final game.<\/p>\n<p>He clinched the victory with a backhand winner on his first match point.<\/p>\n<p>Lee becomes the first American player to win the men&#8217;s singles title here since Sameer Banerjee in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; American 16-year-old Jordan Lee defeated Cruise Hewitt 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday to become the second qualifier to win the Wimbledon men&#8217;s title. Lee becomes the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam men&#8217;s tournament since Noah Rubin won at Wimbledon in 2014. &#8220;Standing here with the trophy means a lot because very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1568,2044,2829,848,2212,24,361,1790,52],"class_list":["post-50535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-american","tag-jordan","tag-lee","tag-mens","tag-qualifier","tag-tennis","tag-title","tag-wimbledon","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}