Zack Fleishman

Infobox Tennis player
playername = Zack Fleishman turned heads at the 2007 Australian Open with red, white, and blue hair.


nickname =
country = USA
residence = Playa del Rey, California
datebirth = birth date and age|1980|3|17
placebirth = Santa Monica, California
height = height|ft=6|in=2
weight = convert|190|lb|kg|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro = 2000
retired =
plays = Right
careerprizemoney = US$326,187
singlesrecord = 31–18 in 2007
singlestitles = 6
highestsinglesranking = No. 127 entry ranking(November 5 2007) and No. 55 race ranking (January 29 2007)
AustralianOpenresult = 2nd (2007)
FrenchOpenresult = -
Wimbledonresult = 1st (2007)
USOpenresult = -
doublesrecord =
doublestitles =
highestdoublesranking = No. 254 (June 24 2002)
updated = August 20 2007

Zachary Rodin "Zack" Fleishman (born March 17 1980) is a right-handed professional tennis player from the United States.

Tennis career

Fleishman began playing tennis at the age of 8.

In 1998, he became the highest ranked American junior in the world (at # 18 in the world rankings). Ranked No. 2 nationally in Boys 18 and under in 1998, and the top-ranked player in Southern California in Boys 10, 12, 14, and 18s, he was listed No. 5 nationally in Boys 14 and unders at age 13. He competed in numerous Junior Grand Slam events, including Wimbledon, the French Open and the US Open where he reached the quarterfinals.

Fleishman played one year of high school tennis at Crossroads School in 9th grade for coach Martin Hershey. He went undefeated for that season and won Delphic League Championship. [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:ks9b-0Dda6kJ:uclabruins.cstv.com/sports/m-tennis/mtt/ucla-m-tennis-fleishman.html+%22zack+fleishman%22+ucla&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us]

At the age of 18, he began playing collegiate tennis at UCLA, and played one season in 1998-99. That year Zack helped UCLA to the number 1 ranking in the country and to the finals of the NCAA. After one year of competing on the collegiate level, Fleishman opted to turn professional in 2000.

He has won 6 professional singles titles (and numerous doubles titles) in his career starting with back to back satellite wins in El Salvador on hard court, followed by a win in Honduras on red clay. Fleishman then won back to back titles again, this time in his native California winning 2 futures events in Redding and Chico (he also won the doubles title). Later, he was able to establish himself on the challenger circuit winning a $25,000 event in Ecuador on red clay and then a $50,000 event in Vietnam on hard court. This propelled him to the #11 player in the United States and the #127 player in the world.

2006

In 2006, Fleishman qualified for his first Grand Slam event: the Australian Open. He won 3 qualifying matches and then drew world #85 Dick Norman of Belgium. Fleishman rallied from 2 sets down to force a fifth set. However, Fleishman was unable to capitalize on his momentum, and lost the fifth set and the match.

2007

In 2007, Fleishman again qualified for the Australian Open. This time, he defeated world 26th-ranked Agustín Calleri of Argentina in the first round, before falling to Australian Wayne Arthurs in the second.

The same year, Fleishman won 3 matches and qualified at Wimbledon, where he faced world #10 Tommy Haas. On July 17, 2007, Fleishman achieved his first victory over a top ten player, defeating World No. 6 Fernando González 7–6(5), 6–4, in the first round of the Los Angeles Tennis Center's Countrywide Classic on the grounds of UCLA. He proceeded to beat fellow American Robert Kendrick 7–6(4), 6–3, in the second round, compiling his first ever back-to-back wins in an ATP event. In the quarterfinals, however, Fleishman fell to the eventual tournament champion Radek Štěpánek, 6–4, 6–2.

Recent Interviews

http://tenniszonepodcast.com/Episodes/Entries/2008/3/7_Zack_Fleishman.html www.eletewater.com

Best surface and best stroke

*Prefers hard courts, and his forehand is his best stroke.

Best Wins

Fernando Gonzalez, David Nalbandian, Tomas Berdych, Vince Spadea, Joakim Johansson, Robby Ginepri, Mardy Fish, Augustin Calleri,Michael Llodra, Daniel Nestor, Nicolas Mahut

External links

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* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=Fleishm&weeks=12 Fleishman Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=Fleishm Fleishman World Ranking History]
* [http://uclabruins.cstv.com/sports/m-tennis/mtt/ucla-m-tennis-fleishman.html UCLA bio]