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Michael Shabaz (born August 20, 1987) is an American tennis player who won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship with Jesse Levine, and currently a NCAA tennis player for the University of Virginia Cavaliers.
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Early life
Shabaz was born in Reston, Virginia, to Assyrian parents Vladimir and Scarlett Shabaz. Shabaz started playing tennis at the early age of 7, after watching Andre Agassi perform, and was hooked.
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Junior career
Shabaz reached singles round of 16 of the 2005 Junior Australian Open. Shabaz, along with Jesse Levine, won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship. Shabaz and Levine, both 17, dropped only one set en route to the final, where they defeated Australia's Samuel Groth and Britain's Andrew Kennaugh 6–4, 6–1, for the title. Their previous best major result was a semifinal performance in doubles at the 2005 Australian Open Junior Championships. Shabaz and Levine competed together almost exclusively in doubles play in 2005 and reached the final at the USTA International Spring Championships and the quarterfinals at the Easter Bowl - US Closed Championships. Shabaz also reached the Easter Bowl semifinals, the USTA International Spring Championships quarterfinals, and the Australian Open round of 16 in 2005. In 2006, Shabaz played on the USTA Futures Circuit, defeating two 2007 ITA Singles All-Americans. Shabaz was ranked the No. 1 recruit nationally in 2006 by tennisrecruiting.net.
College career
Shabaz teamed with fellow Cavalier Dominic Inglot to win the 2009 NCAA men's doubles championship. They defeated doubles teams from Pepperdine, Texas Tech, and North Carolina before meeting John Patrick Smith and Davey Sandgren of the University of Tennessee in the finals. Shabaz, then a sophomore, and Inglot, a senior, bested Smith and Sandgren in three sets, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.[1]
1st Team VaSID All-State. Had a 18-7 singles record, including a 17-6 dual match record and a 24-6 doubles record, including a 13-4 record with Sanam Singh. Shabaz and Singh were alternates for the NCAA Doubles Championship and the duo ended the season ranked No. 41 in the ITA Doubles Rankings and ranked as high as No. 18 nationally in doubles with Singh. Both reached the doubles final of the ITA Mideast Regional.
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Wimbledon (Open Era) boys' doubles champions 1982 Pat Cash / John Frawley • 1983 Mark Kratzmann / Simon Youl • 1984 Richard Brown / Robbie Weiss • 1985 Agustín Moreno / Jaime Yzaga • 1986 Tomas Carbonell / Petr Korda • 1987 Jason Stoltenberg / Todd Woodbridge • 1988 Jason Stoltenberg / Todd Woodbridge • 1989 Jared Palmer / Jonathan Stark • 1990 Sébastien Lareau / Sébastien Leblanc • 1991 Karim Alami / Greg Rusedski • 1992 Steven Baldas / Scott Draper • 1993 Steven Downs / James Greenhalgh • 1994 Ben Ellwood / Mark Philippoussis • 1995 Martin Lee / James Trotman • 1996 Daniele Bracciali / Jocelyn Robichaud • 1997 Luis Horna / Nicolás Massú • 1998 Roger Federer / Olivier Rochus • 1999 Guillermo Coria / David Nalbandian • 2000 Dominique Coene / Kristof Vliegen • 2001 Frank Dancevic / Giovanni Lapentti • 2002 Florin Mergea / Horia Tecău • 2003 Florin Mergea / Horia Tecău • 2004 Brendan Evans / Scott Oudsema • 2005 Jesse Levine / Michael Shabaz • 2006 Kellen Damico / Nathaniel Schnugg • 2007 Daniel-Alejandro Lopez / Matteo Trevisan • 2008 Yang Tsung-hua / Hsieh Cheng-peng • 2009 Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Kevin Krawietz • 2010 Liam Broady / Tom Farquharson • 2011 George Morgan / Mate Pavić
Categories:- 1987 births
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- American male tennis players
- American people of Assyrian descent
- American people of Iranian descent
- People from Fairfax County, Virginia
- Tennis people from Virginia
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- Wimbledon champions
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