Country (sports) United States Prize money $87,941 Role Tennis player Weight 66 kg Parents Eric Rubin, Melanie Rubin | College Wake Forest University Name Noah Rubin Height 1.78 m Education Wake Forest University Siblings Jessie Rubin | |
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Residence Rockville Centre, New York Born February 21, 1996 (age 28)
Rockville Centre, New York ( 1996-02-21 ) Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Coach(es) Lawrence Kleger & Eric Rubin People also search for Stefan Kozlov, Malek Jaziri, Jessie Rubin Profiles | ||
Noah Rubin (born February 21, 1996 in New York) is an American tennis player.
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Rubin won the Boy's Singles tournament at Wimbledon 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.
Early life
Rubin is Jewish, and his bar mitzvah had a tennis theme. He attended religious school and celebrated his bar mitzvah at the Merrick Jewish Center (a Conservative synagogue), and collected tennis rackets to donate to the Israel Tennis Centers for 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 played junior tennis and was the number 1 player on the Martin Van Buren High School tennis team in Queens, and coaches him (along with Lawrence Kleger) and works as a banker, and his mother Melanie is an educator. His older sister Jessie played on and was captain of the State University of New York at Binghamton 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.
College
Rubin attended and played tennis for Wake Forest University Demon Deacons in North Carolina, where part of his schedule was to play pro events. His scholarship there allowed him, after he completed one year, to leave the university and then come back at any time to complete a degree. In September 2014, Rubin was ranked the No. 1 Division 1 college freshman by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
Rubin ended his 2014–15 freshman season with a 26–4 record, mostly playing # 1 singles, and ranked No. 5 in the U.S. He 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, 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 Ryan Shane.
Juniors
Rubin plays for the John McEnroe Tennis Academy on Randalls Island in the borough of Manhattan.
By the age of seven, Rubin was competing in 12-and-under events, and by the age of 11, he had won international events in his age-group. In 2010, competing in Les Petits As in Tarbes, France, the most prestigious Boys 14-and-Under tournament in the world, he made it to the finals before losing. John McEnroe called Rubin “the most talented player we’ve come across” at McEnroe's academy in 2011, when Rubin was 15. He won the Copa Del Cafe, a Junior International Tennis Federation tournament in Costa Rica, in 2012.
As a junior, Rubin reached as high as No. 6 in the International Tennis Federation’s world junior ranking and No. 1 in the United States in 2014.
He qualified for the Boys' Singles tournament at Wimbledon 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 French Open, 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 at Kalamazoo, Michigan, came with two big bonuses: US Open main-draw wild cards into the singles and doubles.
Professional
In 2015, Rubin made his first final on the ATP Challenger Tour at Charlottesville and won by defeating fellow American teenager Tommy Paul 3-6, 7-6, 6-3, despite being down two breaks in the second set. 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 2016 Australian Open.
Pro tour
Due to his victory at the prestigious 2014 Kalamazoo tournament, Rubin received a wild card into the main draw of the US Open.
Rubin turned pro in June 2015, at the age of 19.
Personal life
Rubin's hobbies are photography, soccer, and art.