0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
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Highestranking
No. 490 (25 August 2025)
Currentranking
No. 500 (12 January 2026)
Last updated on: 12 January 2026.
Michael Zheng (born January 27, 2004) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 174 achieved on 12 January 2026 and a doubles ranking of No. 490 reached on 25 August 2025.[1]
Zheng reached the final of the Wimbledon boys' singles tournament in 2022, losing in the final to Mili Poljičak.[5][6][7] In the 2022–23 season, his first year at Columbia, he became the first first-year student athlete at the school to be named an ITAAll-American, in addition to being the first Ivy League tennis player to win Ivy League Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and First-Team All-Ivy in singles and doubles all in the same season.[8][9]
He represented Columbia at the 2023 NCAA tennis tournament in singles, where he was eliminated by Michigan's Ondřej Štyler in the Round of 16.[10] In his sophomore season, Zheng reached the final of the 2024 NCAA Division I tennis men's singles championships, where he lost to Filip Planinšek of Alabama.[11] In the start of his junior year, the NCAA decided to move up the individual NCAA tournaments to the fall season instead of the spring season. There he once again reached the final of the Division I tennis men's singles championships. On November 24, 2024, he defeated Ozan Baris of Michigan State to become the first NCAA singles champion from Columbia since 1906, and the first Ivy League NCAA singles champion since 1922.[12][13][14] On November 23, 2025, Zheng defeated Trevor Svajda of SMU to become the first back-to-back NCAA champion since Steve Johnson in 2011 & 2012.[15]
In 2026, Zheng made it through 3 rounds of qualifying matches, including a tight 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(12–10) three-set win over Lukáš Klein, to make the main draw at the 2026 Australian Open, his first main draw appearance at a Grand Slam. In the first round, he defeated Sebastian Korda in 5 sets, marking his first win at a Grand Slam main draw.
Performance timeline
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(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
↑Eckles, EJ. "Michael Zheng Captures NCAA Singles Tennis Championship", Delbarton School, November 25, 2024. Accessed August 10, 2025."The 2021 NJSIAA Boys Tennis Singles Champion during his junior year at Delbarton, Zheng left the school early to focus on his tennis career, a move that has clearly paid off."
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