Noah Rubin

Noah Rubin (born February 21, 1996) is an American professional tennis player.

He is a former Wimbledon junior singles champion, and a former USTA junior national champion in both singles and doubles.

He was the first American boy to win Wimbledon since Donald Young in 2007.

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 also won the Copa Del Café, a Junior ITF tournament in Costa Rica, in 2012.

Rubin also played college tennis for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in the 2014–15 season.

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 played for the John McEnroe Tennis Academy on Randalls Island in 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.

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 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 came with two big bonuses of main-draw wild cards into the singles and doubles events at the US Open.

Rubin attended and played tennis for Wake Forest University 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.

After turning pro in 2015, he won four ATP Challenger titles.

Entering the year as the ITA No. 1 ranked college freshman, he finished the season as an All-American and the runner-up in the 2015 NCAA singles championship.

Despite only peaking at No. 125 in the world, Rubin became a notable player on the tour for his efforts to advocate for mental health awareness on the ATP Tour and greater pay for lower-ranked professional players.

In October 2022, Rubin announced he would retire from tennis and pursue a career as a professional pickleball player.

Following limited success on the pickleball tour, he returned to professional tennis in January 2024.

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 has 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.

As a junior, Noah was coached by his father and Lawrence Kleger.

His older sister Jessie was captain of the Binghamton University tennis team.

He has lived in Rockville Centre and Merrick, New York.

He lost in the finals of the 2015 NCAA singles championship to Ryan Shane.

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, despite being down 5–1 in the second set with Paul serving for the match.

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 beat the 17th-seeded Benoit Paire in three tiebreaks in the first round.

Rubin cracked the Top 200 for the first time by qualifying for the 2016 Indian Wells Masters tournament.