Rubin at the 2016 US Open
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Country (sports) | United States |
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Residence | Merrick, New York |
Born |
Merrick, New York |
February 21, 1996
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
College | Wake Forest University |
Coach(es) | Lawrence Kleger & Eric Rubin |
Prize money | $172,300 |
Singles | |
Career record | 2–6 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 166 (6 June 2016) |
Current ranking | No. 181 (11 July 2016) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2016, 2017) |
French Open | Q1 (2016) |
US Open | 1R (2014) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 0–1 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 1381 (November 17, 2014) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
US Open | 1R (2014) |
Last updated on: July 13, 2016. |
Noah Rubin (born February 21, 1996) is an American tennis player.
Rubin won Wimbledon as a junior in July 2014. The following month he won the 2014 U.S. Tennis Association’s Boys 18s National Championships in both singles and doubles.
Rubin played tennis for Wake Forest University Demon Deacons in the 2014–15 season, entering it ranked the no. 1 Division 1 college freshman by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). He was an All-American and was the first player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to be named both men’s tennis ACC Player and Freshman of the Year in his freshman season, losing in the finals of the 2015 NCAA singles championship. He turned pro in June 2015.
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 Israel Tennis Centers as his "mitzvah project". He 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 Martin Van Buren High School in Queens. He and Lawrence Kleger coach Noah. His older sister Jessie was captain of the Binghamton University tennis team, and now works for VH-1.
He has lived in Rockville Centre and Merrick, New York. He attended Levy-Lakeside Elementary School and Merrick Avenue Middle School, and then went to John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, Long Island for one year, after which he studied via an online program at the Laurel Springs School, graduating in 2014.