{"id":40719,"date":"2026-07-15T21:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/40719\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:58:16","slug":"andy-roddick-praises-potential-for-wimbledon-junior-champ-jordan-lee-but-cautions-against-too-much-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/40719\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick Praises Potential For Wimbledon Junior Champ Jordan Lee But Cautions Against Too Much Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Randy Walker<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">@TennisPublisher<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andy Roddick called it \u201cone of the best junior matches I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the Wimbledon junior boys final between Jordan Lee of the United States and Lleyton Hewitt\u2019s son Cruz Hewitt that was won by Lee by a 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 margin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The win by the 16-year-old Lee, who only got into the junior field at the All England Club via the qualifying rounds, received considerable attention and received a significant conversation by Roddick on his famed \u201cServed\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roddick praised Lee on the podcast saying he is \u201ca prospect with which we haven\u2019t had in a long time\u201d but also halted himself for going too far about Lee and not to overhype him. Roddick talked about being ambivalent about talking about junior players too much and urged people to \u201cgive him some space\u201d and not label him as \u201cthe next\u201d as many pundits like to do when they see junior players have strong results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am hesitant to mention prospects because I think there\u2019s a thirst for an American male that is sometimes out of control,\u201d Roddick cautioned. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna be the only one talking about this kid\u2026I\u2019ve watched him, the kid is so legit, he can move, he can run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet\u2019s not be in a hurry with the Thirst Olympics,\u201d Roddick continued. \u201cHe will have that whether or not we create that hype mechanism or not, he\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee was not on many people\u2019s radar\u2019s prior to his Wimbledon junior win, but now is the current talk of American junior tennis. A review of his final-round win over Hewitt can be read here <a href=\"https:\/\/worldtennismagazine.com\/american-jordan-lee-16-beats-lleyton-hewitts-son-cruz-in-comeback-win-for-wimbledon-junior-boys-singles-title\/28388\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/worldtennismagazine.com\/american-jordan-lee-16-beats-lleyton-hewitts-son-cruz-in-comeback-win-for-wimbledon-junior-boys-singles-title\/28388<\/a> \u00a0In addition to Lee, there are two other top American teenage prospects in his age division Michael Antonius and Andrew Johnson, both of whom won pro tournaments on the USTA Pro Circuit this year, the youngest to win on that leve of pro tennis since Carlos Alcaraz in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To listen to \u201cServed\u201d click here <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/served-with-andy-roddick\/id1727790717?i=1000776734810&amp;r=1728\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/served-with-andy-roddick\/id1727790717?i=1000776734810&amp;r=1728<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lee-Roddick-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28443 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lee-Roddick.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28443 lazyload\"  \/>Discover more from World Tennis Magazine<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Randy Walker @TennisPublisher Andy Roddick called it \u201cone of the best junior matches I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[843,13626,13912,285],"class_list":["post-40719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wimbledon","tag-andy-roddick","tag-jordan-lee","tag-served-podcast","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}