- Cruz Hewitt, 15 years old, selected to debut in the Junior Davis Cup
- Following the path of his father Lleyton Hewitt
- Asia-Oceania Qualifier Event in Kazakhstan May 20-25
Cruz Hewitt has been selected to make his debut for Australia in the Junior Davis Cup, following in the team tennis footsteps of his illustrious father Lleyton.
Hewitt Sr. is captain of the senior Davis Cup team in the ‘World Cup of Tennis’ event that has long been one of the favorite parts of his sporting life, and the man who won the Cup twice as a player will be proud to his talent. His son now continues the tradition.
New South Wales youngster Cruz, the ITF junior ranked No. 226, will don the green and gold for the first time after he made his Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open singles earlier this year male.
Twenty-seven years after Hewitt Sr. became the youngest qualifier to reach the Open main draw at just 15 years old, Cruz lost in his first appearance at Melbourne Park.
Hewitt will play alongside 16-year-old West Australian Cameron Burton and 15-year-old South Australian Jeffrey Strydom in the Asia-Oceania qualifying event in Kazakhstan on May 20-25.
Cruz Hewitt has been selected to make his debut for Australia in the Junior Davis Cup, following in the footsteps of his illustrious father Lleyton.
New South Wales youngster Cruz, the ITF’s No. 226 junior qualifier, will don the green and gold for the first time after making his Grand Slam debut earlier this year at the Australian Open men’s singles .
Cruz’s father, Lleyton Hewitt (pictured with his wife, Bec), is an Australian tennis legend.
The top four nations in the qualifier will advance to the final in November.
The team will be captained by Sandon Stolle, the former world No. 2 doubles player who was the son of a famous tennis father, Fred Stolle, a two-time Grand Slam winner.
“I’m looking forward to taking my first Junior Davis Cup team and continuing to support our high-performance athletes,” said Stolle, coach of Tennis Australia’s national development team in South Australia.
“It’s a great experience for these young people to play for Australia and be part of the green and gold history of tennis.”
The competition is for teams with players under 16 and takes place after a qualifier for the equivalent event for girls, the Billie Jean King Junior Cup, at the same venue in Shymkent next week.
The Australian BJK Junior Cup team consists of 14-year-old Renee Alame (NSW), Ava Beck (15, Victoria) and Tahlia Kokkinis (15, Queensland) and will be captained by Jessica Moore, who played in the senior BJK competition. Australia.