Noah Rubin (tennis)
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Noah Rubin (born February 21, 1996) is an American former professional
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player. He is a former
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junior singles champion, and a former USTA junior national champion in both singles and doubles. After turning pro in 2015, he won four ATP Challenger titles. Rubin also played college tennis for the
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in the 2014–15 season. Entering the year as the ITA No. 1 ranked college freshman, he finished the season as an All-American and the runner-up in the 2015 NCAA singles championship. Despite only peaking at No. 125 in the world, Rubin became a notable player on the tour for his efforts to advocate for mental health awareness on the
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and greater pay for lower-ranked professional players. In October 2022, Rubin announced he would pursue a career as a professional
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player.


Early life and education

Rubin is Jewish, and his bar mitzvah had a tennis theme. He attended the Merrick Jewish Center religious school, and collected donated tennis rackets for the
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as his
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project. He has said, "I want people to know I'm Jewish and I like to represent the Jewish people." His father Eric Rubin works as a banker, and his mother Melanie is an educator. His father was the top player on the tennis team at
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in Queens. As a junior, Noah was coached by his father and Lawrence Kleger. His older sister Jessie was captain of the
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tennis team. He has lived in
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and
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. He attended Levy-Lakeside Elementary School and Merrick Avenue Middle School, and then went to John F. Kennedy High School in
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for one year, after which he studied via an online program at the
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, graduating in 2014.


Junior career

Rubin played for the John McEnroe Tennis Academy on
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in Manhattan. By the age of seven, Rubin was competing in 12-and-under events, and he was winning international competitions by the time he was eleven. In 2010, he made it to the finals at
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in
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, France. In 2011, when Rubin was 15,
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called him "the most talented player we've come across." He also won the Copa Del Café, a Junior ITF tournament in Costa Rica, in 2012. As a junior, Rubin reached as high as no. 6 in the
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's world junior ranking and no. 1 in the United States in 2014. He qualified for the boys' singles tournament at
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in July 2014, and won the tournament in the first all-American final there since 1977. He was the first American boy to win Wimbledon since Donald Young in 2007. He had played only one other event in 2014 before Wimbledon at the
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, where he lost in the second round. The month after hoisting the trophy at Wimbledon, Rubin played in and won the 2014 U.S. Tennis Association's Boys 18s National Championships in both singles and doubles (with close friend Stefan Kozlov). The latter success came with two big bonuses of main-draw wild cards into the singles and doubles events at the US Open.


College career

Rubin attended and played tennis for Wake Forest University in North Carolina, where part of his schedule was to play pro events. His scholarship there allowed him to leave the university after one year and return at any time to complete his degree. In September 2014, Rubin was ranked the No. 1 Division 1 college freshman by the
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(ITA). Rubin ended his 2014–15 freshman season with a 26–4 record, mostly playing no. 1 singles, and ranked no. 5 in the U.S. He was the first player in
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history to be named both men's tennis ACC Player and Freshman of the Year in his freshman season, and was the first Wake Forest ACC men's tennis Player of the Year, and the third to win Freshman of the Year. He was an All-American, ITA Rookie of the Year, four-time ACC Player of the Week, and ITA Carolina Region Rookie of the Year. Playing doubles mostly with Jon Ho at No. 2 doubles, he had a 15–6 record. He lost in the finals of the 2015 NCAA singles championship to
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.


Professional career


2015–2016

Rubin turned pro in June 2015 at the age of 19. He made his first final on the
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at
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, and won by defeating fellow American teenager
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, despite being down 5–1 in the second set with Paul serving for the match. As the only American to win an event in the Australian Open Wild Card Challenge, Rubin was awarded a wild card into the main draw at the
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. With his wild card, Rubin entered his second career Grand Slam event as the lowest-ranked non-PR player (328th overall) in the main draw of the 2016 Australian Open, where he beat the 17th-seeded Benoit Paire in three tiebreaks in the first round. Rubin cracked the Top 200 for the first time by qualifying for the 2016 Indian Wells Masters tournament. In the clay court season, he recorded an upset win over 59th-ranked
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, the No. 1 seed at the
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. Having missed most of the summer tournaments due to a rolled ankle injury he suffered while jogging in June that cost him five months of training and competition, Rubin returned to form in October, reaching his second career Challenger final at Stockton.


2017–2018

Rubin started the 2017 season by winning his first round match at the Australian Open, before falling to eventual champion
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in the second round. He then went back to Australia and won his second Challenger title at Launceston,
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, in an all-American final against
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. For the second consecutive year, Rubin missed a few consecutive months of the late spring and early summer due to injury; this one a severely sprained right wrist that he suffered in April when he slipped on a clay court during a tournament in Houston that resulted in him losing 10 months of serious competition and training. He bounced back near the end of the season to finish the year on the cusp of the Top 200, just as in 2016. Once again, Rubin began the 2018 season by playing at the BNP Paribas de Nouvelle-Calédonie. At this tournament, he greatly improved on his second-round result from the previous year and reached his fourth Challenger final, all four of which have been against other Americans. In the final, Rubin defeated
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to claim his third Challenger title to boost himself to a new career-high ranking of No. 162 in the world. After falling out of the Top 200, Rubin won a fourth Challenger title at the Tallahassee Tennis Challenger. This was his first title on clay and put him back in the Top 200 of the ATP rankings. The title also helped him clinch the French Open Wild Card Challenge to earn a wild card into the main draw of the
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. In his debut at the tournament, he was beaten by compatriot
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.


2019–2022

Rubin played in the main draw of the
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as a
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. He lost 6-2, 6-0 to former world #1
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. Rubin defeated #1 seed
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in the first round of qualifying at the 2022 Hall of Fame Open, but lost in the final round of qualifying to
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. His last career professional match was in the 2022 Citi Open where he lost 6-2, 6-0 to
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in the first round of qualifying. On September 19, 2022, Rubin, in an
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post announced he would be taking an indefinite break from professional tennis. Rubin stated that he was unhappy with his current level of play and sustained a wrist injury that may have required surgery if he wanted to continue playing at a professional level. In the post, Rubin did not rule out returning to professional tennis, but he stated he will be involved with a number of endeavors including "documentaries, clothing lines ndclubs." In October 2022, Rubin announced he would become a professional
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Personal life

Rubin's hobbies are photography, soccer, and art. Rubin has an
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account that has met with “modest success,” Behind the Racquet, where players share personal struggles of living on the professional tour. Rubin has found the process to be therapeutic for dealing with the realities of “often lonely, physically taxing life” of professional tennis. He said, The platform has been used by tennis players including
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,
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, and
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, to discuss their mental health, monetary concerns, and other issues.


Challenger and Futures finals


Singles: 12 (4–8)


Doubles: 3 (1–2)


Junior Grand Slam finals


Boys' singles


Singles performance timeline


Record against other players


Record against top 10 players

Rubin's match record against those who have been
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in the top 10. Players who have been No. 1 are in boldface. *
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1–0 *
Mikhail Youzhny Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (born 25 June 1982), nicknamed "Misha" and "Colonel" by his fans, is a Russian retired professional tennis player who was ranked inside the top 10 and was the Russian No. 1. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Assoc ...
1–0 *
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1–1 *
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1–1 *
Nicolás Almagro Nicolás Almagro Sánchez (; born 21 August 1985 in Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2008, 2010 and 2012 (losing each time to Rafael Nadal, the eventual ...
0–1 *
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0–1 *
Fabio Fognini Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. He is currently ranked (July 2022) in 64th place by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ...
0–1 *
Karen Khachanov Karen Abgarovich Khachanov (russian: Каре́н Абга́рович Хача́нов; born 21 May 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. Khachanov has won four ATP Tour singles titles, including a Masters 1000 title at the 2018 Paris ...
0–1 *
Daniil Medvedev Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev (russian: Даниил Сергеевич Медведев; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 7 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and was ...
0–1 *
Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray h ...
0–1 *
Kei Nishikori is an inactive Japanese professional tennis player. He is the second male Japanese player to have been ranked in the top 5 in singles (after Jiro Sato), and the only one to do so in the Open Era. Nishikori first reached his career-high singles ...
0–1 *
Andrey Rublev Andrey Andreyevich Rublev (russian: Андрей Андреевич Рублёв; born 20 October 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 5 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (AT ...
0–1 :''* .''


Wins over top 10 players


See also

* List of select Jewish tennis players


References


External links

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Wake Forest bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubin, Noah American male tennis players 1996 births Living people Jewish American sportspeople Jewish tennis players Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's tennis players People from Merrick, New York People from Rockville Centre, New York People from Bellmore, New York Wimbledon junior champions John F. Kennedy High School (Bellmore, New York) alumni Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles 21st-century American Jews Tennis people from New York (state)