Jesse Levine
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Jesse Levine (b. October 15, 1987, in Ottawa, Canada) is a left-handed Canadian-born American 5' 9", 150 pounds, junior tennis player. Levine moved to the USA from Canada at age 13, and currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida.[1]
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[edit] Junior tennis career
In 2003 he and partner Jean Yves Aubone won the USTA boys 16s doubles championship.[2]
In 2005 he was ranked 23rd in the final USTA national junior rankings.[3]
His highest ITF World Junior Ranking was No. 14.
Along with Michael Shabaz, an Assyrian-American, he won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship. He also reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon boys' singles tournament that year.
He finished as the runner-up at the 2006 U.S. Junior National Championship to World No. 1 Junior, Donald Young, forfeiting in the finals due to food poisoning.
He attended the University of Miami Online High School, and was class of 2007. The school offers an academic program for athletes who are too busy to attend bricks-and-mortar high schools.
Levine did most of his junior training at the Chris Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, and the Bollettieri Academy in Bradenton, Florida, but decided at least a year or two of college was a better choice than turning professional.[4]
[edit] College career
He currently playing at the University of Florida, having enrolled in the Spring of 2007, and won his first 14 matches (dropping only 2 sets) playing No. 1 singles for the Gators. He is ranked # 4 by the NCAA as of March 2007.[5]
Levine also plays No. 1 doubles with junior Greg Ouellette, and the duo is 11-2 in 2007, rising to # 6 in the rankings.[6]
Levine was named the Southeastern Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Week twice in 2007.[7]
In March 2007 he beat John Isner, a senior at University of Georgia, the No. 1 player in college tennis, who had been undefeated in his prior 46 matches.[8]
[edit] Pro tournaments
As of March 2007 he was ranked No. 405 by the ATP.
Levine played low-level ATP events. Levine missed the Gators' first dual match of the season, on Jan. 31st, because he was at the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, where he defeated Lukasz Kubot of Poland (ranked # 118) 6-3, 6-2, and Kevin Kim of the US (ranked # 107) 6-2, 6-2, but lost to Benjamin Becker of Germany (ranked # 54) 3-6, 3-6.
He also received a wild card into the BMW Tennis Championship, where he lost 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3), to Gael Monfils.
[edit] Style of play
Among his strengths as a player are "great feet" and "a superb forehand," and he is "a hard worker and a natural leader."[9]
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Levine grew up in the Centrepointe neighborhood in Ottawa, and attended Hillel Academy.
- His father played tennis for Penn State.
[edit] External links
- AP Tennis bio
- Bio and match history
- "Ottawa-born Levine a Wimbledon champ; Captures boys' doubles title at All England Club," 7/7/05
- University of Florida bio
- "Early Returns," 4/5/07
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