{"id":951359,"date":"2026-07-22T07:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/951359\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:17:21","slug":"wimbledon-champion-returns-to-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/951359\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon champion returns to Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teenager Jordan Lee Won Boys\u2019 Singles Title<\/p>\n

ORLANDO, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 For any serious tennis player, winning at Wimbledon is the dream. It\u2019s the victory of a lifetime. Orlando teenager Jordan Lee achieved it on July 12. He captured the Wimbledon Boys Singles Championship with a three-set win over a higher ranked opponent.<\/p>\n

The victory took more than three sets. It took years of training and practice and months of recovery. This incredible chapter of Jordan\u2019s career almost was not written. He had to persevere through injuries during the year prior and then qualify for the tournament famous for its grass courts. Jordan put in the work and became only the second qualifier in history to win the Wimbledon Boys title and the first American to do so since 2021. <\/p>\n

Jordan has another big tournament this summer. He will head to next month\u2019s US Open and take the stage in New York as a Wimbledon champion. <\/p>\n

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About the AuthorJamie Seh headshotJamie Seh<\/a><\/p>\n

Sports have always been Jamie Seh\u2019s game and as the News 6 sports director, she\u2019ll bring you coverage of all the hottest games. From the fields, to the courts, over to the ice, Jamie has the highlights you won\u2019t want to miss and the stories you\u2019ll want to hear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenager Jordan Lee Won Boys\u2019 Singles Title ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 For any serious tennis player, winning at Wimbledon…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":951360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[48],"tags":[243594,6063,62,1464,67,132,68,10118,101776,2071],"class_list":["post-951359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-lake-nona","tag-orlando","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-us-open","tag-usta","tag-wimbledon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116962410320065305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951359","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=951359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}