{"id":933752,"date":"2026-07-14T06:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/933752\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:58:27","slug":"meet-the-orlando-teen-who-just-conquered-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/933752\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Orlando teen who just conquered Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSixteen-year-old Jordan Lee took the tennis world by storm Sunday morning, making his Grand Slam debut in winning fashion.   Lee became the first qualifier to win the boys&#8217; Wimbledon Singles tournament since Noah Rubin in 2014.  On Sunday, he battled past Australian Cruz Hewitt 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 to clinch the Wimbledon trophy. \u201cFor me, standing here with the trophy means a lot. Very few people know what I have been through this past year and a half, dealing with a lot of injuries. A year ago, I was sitting on the couch at home and didn\u2019t know if I was going to play tennis again, so I am really happy to be here,\u201d Lee said after hoisting the cup. Even though the victory came 4,336 miles away, the impacts and pride are felt at home, in Orlando. Lee trains at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona with his mother, Tina Lee. In addition to being his mom, Tina is the associate head professional of the High Performance Academy at the USTA National Campus. In 2024, Lee achieved a runner-up finish at the U14 Wimbledon championships and in the same year winning his age group at the Orange Bowl and the Eddie Herr International Tennis Championships. It was that year he also represented the red, white and blue in the 2024 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals in Prostejov, Czechia, winning the tournament with USA Tennis.More recently, in 2025, Jordan competed alongside Andrew Johnson and Michael Antonius for the United States in the Junior Davis Cup, winning the championship. 2025 also saw Lee make his first ATP point and ranking, the first player born in 2010 to do so. With his Wimbledon win, he becomes only the second American to win the championship in the decade, following Samir Banerjee in 2021.https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DaskSr8zFGe\/Christian Bussiere is an assignment editor and sportswriter at WESH 2 who has covered Central Florida sports since 2022. You can follow his coverage over on X and Instagram.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">GREATER LONDON, England \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen-year-old<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jordan_lee_tennis\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jordan Lee<\/a> took the tennis world by storm Sunday morning, making his Grand Slam debut in winning fashion.   <\/p>\n<p>Lee became the first qualifier to win the boys&#8217; Wimbledon Singles tournament since Noah Rubin in 2014.  On Sunday, he battled past Australian Cruz Hewitt 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 to clinch the Wimbledon trophy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, standing here with the trophy means a lot. Very few people know what I have been through this past year and a half, dealing with a lot of injuries. A year ago, I was sitting on the couch at home and didn\u2019t know if I was going to play tennis again, so I am really happy to be here,\u201d Lee said after hoisting the cup. <\/p>\n<p>Even though the victory came 4,336 miles away, the impacts and pride are felt at home, in Orlando. <\/p>\n<p>Lee trains at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona with his mother, Tina Lee. In addition to being his mom, Tina is the associate head professional of the High Performance Academy at the USTA National Campus. <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Lee achieved a runner-up finish at the U14 Wimbledon championships and in the same year winning his age group at the Orange Bowl and the Eddie Herr International Tennis Championships. <\/p>\n<p>It was that year he also represented the red, white and blue in the 2024 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals in Prostejov, Czechia, winning the tournament with USA Tennis.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, in 2025, Jordan competed alongside Andrew Johnson and Michael Antonius for the United States in the Junior Davis Cup, winning the championship. 2025 also saw Lee make his first ATP point and ranking, the first player born in 2010 to do so. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: Jordan Lee of United States kisses his trophy following victory over Cruz Hewitt of Australia during their Boys&amp;apos; Singles final match on day fourteen of The Championships Wimbledon 2026 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 12, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by James Fearn\/Getty Images)\" title=\"Day Fourteen: The Championships - Wimbledon 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/87831eeb-872d-4453-92e7-42faafe0d444.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tJames Fearn\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJordan lee kisses the cup at the Wimbledon championships<\/p>\n<p>With his Wimbledon win, he becomes only the second American to win the championship in the decade, following Samir Banerjee in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DaskSr8zFGe\/<\/p>\n<p>Christian Bussiere is an assignment editor and sportswriter at WESH 2 who has covered Central Florida sports since 2022. You can follow his coverage over on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bussiereee\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>X<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chris.bussieree\/?__d=1%252F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen-year-old Jordan Lee took the tennis world by storm Sunday morning, making his Grand Slam debut in winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":933753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[48],"tags":[1441,316,231192,243594,1686,7088,376519,17241,376516,13003,62,376518,1464,244762,84884,67,132,68,376517,2071],"class_list":["post-933752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-championship","tag-home","tag-jordan-lee","tag-lake-nona","tag-lee","tag-lot","tag-michael-antonius","tag-mother","tag-orlando-teen","tag-past-year","tag-sports","tag-sportswriter","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-world","tag-tina","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-usta-national-campus","tag-wimbledon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116917038872766575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}