Noah Rubin (tennis)

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.

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 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 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (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 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.

Rubin played 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 he was winning international competitions by the time he was eleven. In 2010, he made it to the finals at Les Petits As in Tarbes, France. In 2011, when Rubin was 15, John McEnroe called him "the most talented player we've come across". He won the Copa Del Café, 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.

Rubin turned pro in June 2015 at the age of 19. He 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 Australian Open.

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 stunned the 17th-seeded Benoit Paire 7–6, 7–6, 7–6 in the 1st round.

Rubin cracked the Top 200 for the first time by qualifying for the 2016 Indian Wells Masters tournament. He began the 2016 French Open Wild Card Challenge strongly with an upset win over the No. 1 seed and 59th-ranked Denis Kudla at the Sarasota Open. Having missed most of the summer tournaments due to injury, Rubin returned to form in October, reaching his second career Challenger final at Stockton.

Rubin started the 2017 season by winning his first round match at the Australian Open, before falling to Roger Federer in the second round 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Singles (1–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	000000002013-07-28-0000July 28, 2013	Godfrey F20	Hard	Michael Shabaz	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	2.	000000002014-03-16-0000March 16, 2014	Poitiers F6	Hard (i)	David Guez	0–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	000000002014-05-25-0000May 25, 2014	Vic F10	Clay	Yannik Reuter	6–3, 4–6, 2–6
Winner	4.	November 8, 2015	Charlottesville	Hard (i)	Tommy Paul	3–6, 7–6(9–7), 6–3
Runner-up	5.	000000002016-02-28-0000February 28, 2016	Plantation F8	Clay	Andrea Collarini	3–6, 6–7(3–7)
Runner-up	6.	October 9, 2016	Stockton	Hard	Frances Tiafoe	4–6, 2–6

Doubles (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	000000002014-05-23-0000May 23, 2014	Vic F10	Clay	Stefan Kozlov	Sergio Martos Gornés Pol Toledo Bagué	2–6, 5–7

Boys' Singles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	2014	Wimbledon	Grass	Stefan Kozlov	6–4, 4–6, 6–3

Rubin's hobbies are photography, soccer, and art.