Sixteen-year-old American Jordan Lee has advanced to the boys’ singles final at the 2026 World Tennis Tour Junior Finals in Chengdu, China. Lee, who defeated Cruz Hewitt, son of Lleyton Hewitt in this year’s Wimbledon boys’ final, becomes the first American boy to reach the championship match since Brandon Nakashima won the title in 2018.
Lee, a native of Orlando who trains at the USTA facility in Lake Nona, will face Slovenia’s Ziga Sesko, the reigning Australian Open boys’ singles champion, in the final.
The girls’ final will feature a rematch of this year’s girls’ finals at Wimbledon and the US Open. China’s Sun Xinran vs Anna Pushkareva. The pair split their previous two Slam finals, with Pushareva winning at Wimledon and Sun winning in Flushing Meadows.
American Keaton Hance, this year’s Australian Open runner up, was defeated in the semifinals by Sesko.
The finals will be streamed live on the World Tennis Tour website, with the final set for 11:30 p.m. ET tonight, with Alex Grushkin of Cracked Racquets fame on the call.
The season-ending showcase features the world’s top eight junior boys, with the champion earning 1,000 junior ranking points, matching a junior Grand Slam, and up to $23,000 in travel grants from the event’s $220,000 pool. The victory will boost his year-end ranking, helping secure entry into professional tournaments in 2027 through World Tennis’ Junior Accelerator Programme.
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