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Jesse Levine

Country (sports)	United States /  Canada
Residence	Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Left-handed; two-handed backhand
Prize money	$343,934
Singles
Career record	10–23
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 94 (November 3, 2008)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2nd (2008)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	3rd (2009)
US Open	1st (2007)
Doubles
Career record	5–11
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 214 (April 13, 2009)
Last updated on: April 13, 2009.

Jesse Levine (born October 15, 1987) is a left-handed, 5' 9", 145 pound Canadian-born American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of # 94 on November 3, 2008.

As a 13-year-old, in 2001 Levine won the U.S. Clay Court 14 Nationals singles championship, and as a 15-year-old he and his doubles partner won the USTA boys' 16s doubles championship. As a 17-year-old, he and his doubles partner won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship. Playing one year of No. 1 singles for the University of Florida in 2007, he lost only one match, finishing his career with a 24-1 record. In June 2009 he scored his best victory to date, against world # 24 Marat Safin at Wimbledon.

Early life and Jewish heritage

Levine was born in Nepean, Ontario, in Canada, and grew up in Ottawa's Centrepointe neighborhood. Levine's father Nathan had played tennis for Penn State, and Levine started playing tennis at age 7.

Levine attended Hillel Academy of Ottawa. Off the court Levine, who is Jewish, keeps kosher at home, and he plays with a Star of David on his chain. He can read and write Hebrew. Levine, along with Wayne Odesnik, Nicolas Massu, Dudi Sela, Sergio Roitman, Shahar Pe'er, and Aleksandra Wozniak is one of a number of young Jewish tennis players who are highly ranked. "I have a lot of contact with the Israeli players, like Ram, Erlich, Sela and Levy. They sometimes ask me when I will play for Israel in the Davis Cup," he said. He also appreciates the Jewish fans who cheer for him. At one tournament, they cheered and said things such as: "Come on, man, your opponent hasn't even had his bar mitzvah yet!"

He and his family moved to the US when he was 13 years old, because his younger brother Daniel suffers from ulcerative colitis and the year-round warm weather was much better for him, and Levine currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida. He now considers himself "100% American," saying that if he were to play Davis Cup, it would be for the US.

Junior tennis career

In 2001 he stunned Donald Young, coming back from love-5 down in the third, in the final of the U.S. Clay Court 14 Nationals, at the Jimmy Evert Tennis Center in Fort Lauderdale. Levine had won the first set, lost the second, and found himself trailing 0–5 with Young serving for match point at 40-15. They were already bringing in the table for the trophy presentation, when Levine ran off an astonishing 23 consecutive points. He won 7-5 in the third.

In 2003 he and partner Jean Yves Aubone won the USTA boys 16s doubles championship.

In 2005 he was ranked 23rd in the final USTA national junior rankings. At the 2005 USTA Junior Nationals, where he lost in the singles semifinals and doubles finals, both 7–6 in the third set, he was judged to have the best service return. Along with Michael Shabaz, an Assyrian-American, he won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship. He also reached the quarterfinals of the Jr. Wimbledon boys' singles tournament that year. Levine was selected to go to the 2005 Maccabiah Games just after winning the doubles, but decided against it as he was too tired.

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 was voted as having the best backhand.

His highest International Tennis Federation World Junior Ranking was No. 14 in 2005.

He attended Boca Prep International School for 1½ years, before switching to the University of Miami Online High School, where he was was class of 2007. The online school offered an academic program for athletes who are too busy to attend traditional bricks-and-mortar high schools. Levine did most of his junior training at the Chris Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, which is adjacent to Boca Prep, and the Bollettieri Academy in Bradenton, Florida for two years, but decided at least a year or two of college was a better choice than turning professional.

College career (2007)

Levine played for the University of Florida, enrolling in the Spring of 2007, but withdrew in August 2007 to turn pro.

Singles

He was 24-1 playing No. 1 singles for the Gators. He won all but 3 of his matches in straight sets.

In March 2007 he beat 6' 9", 236 pound John Isner, a senior at University of Georgia, then the No. 1 player in college tennis, who had been undefeated in his prior 46 matches, and who did not lose another regular-season match all season. On May 23, 2007, Levine lost his first college match, in the quarterfinals in the NCAA Men's Singles to Washington's Alex Slovic, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4. He was ranked # 3 in singles by the NCAA in the final May 2007 standings, and was the only freshman in the top 22.

Awards. Levine was named the Southeastern Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Week twice in 2007. Levine was also named 2007 SEC Freshman of the Year after going 11-0 at the No. 1 singles position in SEC play. He was also named to the 2007 men's tennis All-SEC first team. Levine was in addition selected to the 2007 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-America Team for NCAA Division I men's tennis in both singles and doubles play; he was one of 10 players nationally to do so. Levine was also named the ITA National Rookie of the Year.

Doubles

Levine also played No. 1 doubles for the Gators with junior Greg Ouellette, and the duo was 21-3 in 2007, rising to # 3 in the final NCAA rankings. Levine and Ouellette were defeated 6–7 (4), 6–4, 6–2 by eventual winners Middle Tennessee State's Marco Born and Andreas Siljestrom in the quarterfinals of the 2007 NCAA Men's Doubles championships.

Pro tournaments

2007

Levine played low-level ATP events. Levine missed the Gators' first dual match of the season, on Jan. 31, 2007, because he was at the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, where he defeated Łukasz 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 Gaël Monfils.

In July 2007 Levine accepted an invitation from Roger Federer, ranked # 1 in the world, to join him in Dubai to practice with Federer for 10 days. Twice he and Federer had played match sets, both of which Federer won, 6–4.

"I had an unbelievable season, but in order to take tennis to the next level, I have to keep playing guys at the top level. College tennis is amazing, but I feel my game is ready."

Levine withdrew from college prior to the 2007 U.S. Open, his first tournament as a professional. As a wildcard at the 2007 US Open, after receiving good luck wishes from Federer, he was defeated by world # 4 Nikolay Davydenko in the first round, 6–4, 6–0, 6–1. "I was really nervous," Levine said, "but it was an amazing experience." In doubles, however, he won his first round match, pairing with Alex Kuznetsov, over Dominik Hrbatý of Slovakia and Harel Levy of Israel, 6–1, 6–4, and their second round match upsetting 7th-seeded Frenchmen Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra 7–6 (5), 6–4, before losing in the third round to 9th-seeded Czechs Lukáš Dlouhý and Pavel Vízner, 6–4, 7–5.

In November 2007, Levine won his first pro title, winning the $75,000 Music City Challenger in Nashville, Tennessee, along the way beating world # 109 Robert Kendrick of the US, 7–5, 6–4, # 148 Sam Warburg of the US, 4–6, 6–3, 6–3, and # 170 Dušan Vemić of South Africa, 6–2, 7–5. "That first pro title was a big deal for me," Levine said. "I called my parents to tell them I'd won. I was pretty excited."

Levine then won the very next tournament in the same month, the $50,000 JSM Challenger in Champaign, Illinois, at the University of Illinois. In the second round he defeated # 197 Kevin Kim, 6–1, 7–5, and in the semifinals he again beat John Isner, now world # 118, this time 7–6 (5), 6–3. In the finals Levine topped Donald Young (world # 106), 7–6 (4), 7–6 (4), capping a week in which he did not lose a single set. He had won 8 of his last 9 matches against top-200 competition, and the one loss, which was to Young, he had subsequently avenged with the win against Young. With the win, Levine catapulted to # 192 in the world, continuing his meteoric rise.

Still later in November, he began the $50,000 Knoxville Challenger tournament in Tennessee by defeating former US Junior champion Michael McClune, 6–4, 6–1, in the first round, but three rounds later lost to Kevin Kim in the semifinals. The loss broke Levine's 16-match winning streak.

In early December, he and Andy Roddick defeated Robert Kendrick and Amer Delic 7–6, 6–4, in a fast-paced match on Har-Tru at the OMNI Healthcare/Harris Rally with Roddick charity tennis exhibition in Indian Harbour Beach.

In late December Levine won a wild card berth into the main draw of the Australian Open. The USTA had asked Levine and two other young American men to play off for the wild card that the organization received in a reciprocal agreement with Tennis Australia. The other players selected based on age (22 and under) and ranking (top 200) to compete in Boca Raton, Florida, were Wayne Odesnik and Kuznetsov. They played in a round-robin format, and Levine went undefeated. "It definitely feels good not having it just handed out," Levine said after defeating Odesnik 6–4, 6–0. He trained and played sets with Max Mirnyi, Xavier Malisse, Andy Murray, and Tommy Haas. Levine played qualifying in a couple of pre-Grand Slam tournaments in Adelaide and Sydney. He still flew coach down under. "I'll have to make a lot more money before I can go first class," he said.

Levine ended the year with a 20-10 match record, and ranked # 192.

2008

"That's nothing I can control. I have to come up with other things like my speed, and my conditioning, take their legs from them. They've got bigger legs .... Me, I'm just a little guy running around trying to make every ball."

In January 2008, at the Australian Open, Levine beat Martín Vassallo Argüello of Argentina, a 26-year-old veteran ranked # 77 in the world, to advance to the Australian Open's second round. In second-round action, Levine played a scrappy match against fellow lefty, No. 24 seed Jarkko Nieminen. But despite serving for the set at 5–3 in both the second and third sets, Levine went down 6–2, 7–5, 7–6 (7–2) to the Finn. "I felt like I was right there, and definitely had my chances in the second and third (sets). I have to work on converting a little better," said Levine. "Maybe I got a little too antsy, and tried to go for a little too much, maybe stepped too hard on the pedal instead of taking a foot off."

At the personal request of U.S. Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe, Levine was a practice partner with the U.S. Davis Cup team in early February in Austria, hitting with Andy Roddick, James Blake, and twins Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan. "First of all, he's a lefty, but also, Jesse has shown a lot of promise since last summer, improved his ranking a lot, and he's a great kid and incredibly hard worker," McEnroe said. "Our guys have a good read on which young guys are working really hard, and they were pushing to invite Jesse. It will be a great experience for him, and he'll help our guys a lot." "One day I played four sets. It was a lot of fun, but my body was sore," Levine said. "The guys are so cool."

In February Levine defeated # 81-ranked Steve Darcis of Belgium in the first round of the San Jose Open, 6–3, 2–6, 6–4, before losing to James Blake in the second round. In May he won all five of his matches, dropping only one set, to win the Bradenton, Florida Challenger event. He and partner Kei Nishikori of Japan also won a challenger tournament in doubles in Turkey.

"When you make the top 100, it really changes everything. And I feel like I'm just on the other side, knocking."

In June at Wimbledon, after qualifying by winning three matches, and then getting "shivers" on his arms as he walked out for his opening match, he beat world # 85 Donald Young in the first round at Wimbledon, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6-4. It was the first four-set match he had ever played. The key was Levine's persistent net play; he approached net 32 times, winning 25 of the points. In the next round he lost, in his first five-set match ever, to Jürgen Melzer 4–6, 6–2, 3–6, 6–4, 6-1.

In July in Newport on the grass courts at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, he beat No. 5 seeded, world # 83 John Isner 6–3, 6-1 (winning 57 of 93 points contested). Later in the month he beat Benjamin Becker of Germany, 6–3, 3–6, 7-6 (6), at the Rogers' Cup in Toronto. In August at the New Haven, Connecticut International Series, he beat world # 67 Guillermo Garcia Lopez of Spain 6–0, 6–3, and world # 61 Steve Darcis of Belgium 2–0, retired. That month he broke into the top 100, at 96 on August 25.

In October Federer again invited Levine to join him for an extended practice session in Dubai, as preparation for the Australian Open.

2009

In April at the US Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Texas, Levine, ranked 289th in doubles in the world, and doubles partner Ryan Sweeting from the Bahamas, ranked 405th in doubles in the world, made it into the draw via wild card, and in the first round defeated 3rd-seeded world doubles # 40 Lucas Arnold Ker and world doubles # 61 Martin Damm, 6–2, 6-4. In the quarterfinals they beat world doubles # 66 Jaroslav Levinsky and world doubles # 82 Pavel Vizner, 7-6 (6), 6–4, and in the semifinals they defeated 2nd-seeded world doubles # 30 Ashley Fisher and world doubles # 29 Jordan Kerr 3–6, 6–3, 10-4. They lost to Americans Bob and Mike Bryan, ranked # 1 in the world, in the doubles final, 6–1, 6-2.

Levine qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon 2009, after defeating Australian Samuel Groth 6-4, 6-7 (3), 7-5, German Dieter Kindlmann 6-2, 6-3, then German Matthias Bachinger 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.

In the first round of the main Wimbledon draw Levine upset world # 24 (and former world # 1, and two-time Grand Slam champion) Marat Safin of Russia 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4. Levine, ranked 133rd, took the ball on the rise and forced points during the match, held at love in the final game, and hit a service winner on match point. The Guardian described Levine as "a feisty little terrier who kept harrying away at his towering opponent", and The New York Times noted that: "If you stand them side by side" Levine and Safin "look a little like David and Goliath. Levine ... is seven inches shorter and 45 pounds lighter than Safin, but when it counted ... the American was faster and stronger." It was Levine's first tour-level victory in 2009, and his first career win over a top-50 player. When Levine clinched the win he looked up and pointed into the sky, a tribute to his biggest fan, his grandmother Lillian Kimmel with whom he was very close, who died three years prior but whose spirit he felt with him during his match. Safin said that he knew before the match that Levine was a "talented lefty, tough player, fast ... gonna go for it. He's a tough one." In the second round Levine defeated Uruguay's top tennis player, Pablo Cuevas, 6-2, 6-1, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3. "I think my win the other day against Marat really gave me a confidence booster," he said. Levine had never before won a five-set match. "I could have played a little bit longer," he said, "But I'm glad I didn't have to." Levine, along with Andy Roddick one of the two American men left standing in the tournament, will face world # 18, 19th seed Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland in his first trip to the third round in a Grand Slam. "Once again I'm the underdog," said Levine." "I've got nothing to lose, so I'll go out there swinging away.

Singles Titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	November 5, 2007	Nashville	Hard (I)	Alex Kuznetsov	3–6, 6–2, 7–6
2.	November 12, 2007	Champaign	Hard (I)	Donald Young	7–6, 7–6

Style of play

Among his strengths as a player are that he is "quick-footed" with "great feet", "a superb forehand," and what John McEnroe has referred to as "great racket speed," and he is "a hard worker and a natural leader." He has dazzling hand-eye coordination, which allows him to take the ball exceptionally early. He has all the shots, but his return of serve is his most valuable asset, and he cleverly constructs points. He is a serviceable volleyer, who likes coming in to the net, and is not afraid to move forward as points play out.

"He's got a great heart," said Larry Stefanki, who coaches Fernando González and has previously worked with John McEnroe, Marcelo Ríos, and Tim Henman. "A lot of players today are fast and fit, but just don't seem to play every point at 100%. It's like they're almost on cruise control and then want to play hard when it gets to 4-all or 5-all," Stefanki said. "I think because Jesse's so small and he doesn't want to give any free points, he tries every point 100%. That's a big asset out there."

"When he hears that he's too small, not big enough, well, he just never listened. He says, 'I'm going to play this game.'"

The average professional tennis player is 3 inches taller and 20 pounds heavier than Levine.

Personal life

Levine is good friends with Canadian NHL ice hockey centre Jason Spezza.

External links

• Jesse Levine at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Levine Recent Match Results
• Levine World Ranking History
• Juniors Bio and match history
• University of Florida bio
• "Ottawa-born Levine a Wimbledon champ; Captures boys' doubles title at All England Club," 7/7/05
• "Early Returns," 4/5/07
• "Determined Levine steadfast in making a name for himself," ESPN, 8/20/08

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