Michael Zheng

Not to be confused with Michael Chang.

Michael Zheng

Zheng at the 2023 US Open
Country (sports)	United States
Born	(2004-01-27) January 27, 2004 Chesapeake, Virginia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	Columbia
Coach	Ruan Roelofse
Prize money	US $860,206
Singles
Career record	6–8 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 3 Challenger
Highest ranking	No. 106 (August 24, 2026)
Current ranking	No. 106 (August 24, 2026)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2026)
French Open	1R (2026)
Wimbledon	3R (2026)
US Open	1R (2026)
Doubles
Career record	0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 490 (August 25, 2025)
Last updated on: August 25, 2026.

Michael Zheng (Chinese: 郑瑞 pinyin: Zhèng Ruì, born January 27, 2004) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 106 achieved on August 24, 2026 and a doubles ranking of No. 490 reached on August 25, 2025.

Early life

Zheng was born to Joe Zheng and Mei. His parents emigrated from Hubei, China, to the United States. He was raised in Montville, New Jersey. Zheng attended Delbarton School, where he won the state singles tennis championship in 2021. For his senior year, he transferred to Dwight Global Online School in order to accommodate his travel demands for tennis.

College

In 2025–26, Zheng was a senior playing tennis at Columbia University. 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 ITA All-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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Career

2022: Juniors

Zheng reached the final of the Wimbledon boys' singles tournament in 2022, losing in the final to Mili Poljičak.

2023–25: Challenger titles

In June 2023, Zheng reached his first ATP Challenger final at the 2023 Caribbean Open, losing to Kei Nishikori. In May 2025, Zheng reached the final of the 2025 Little Rock Challenger, losing to Patrick Kypson. In July, Zheng reached his first Challenger doubles final at the 2025 Cranbrook Tennis Classic with Theodore Winegar. In August, Zheng won his first Challenger title in Chicago, defeating Hsu Yu-hsiou in the final. He then won two more Challenger titles at Columbus and Tiburon with a 15 matches win streak.

2026: Major debut and third round, top 125

Zheng made it through three 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 five sets, marking his first win at a Grand Slam main draw. He qualified for the 2026 French Open, making his main draw debut at Roland Garros. He also qualified and reached the third round at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships, on his debut, upsetting 26th seed, home favorite and British No. 1 Cameron Norrie and then fellow qualifier Nicolas Mejia.

Performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(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.

Singles

Tournament	2023	2024	2025	2026	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	2R	0 / 1	1–1	50%
French Open	A	A	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Wimbledon	A	A	A	3R	0 / 1	2–1	67%
US Open	Q2	Q1	Q2		0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–3	0 / 3	3–3	50%
Career statistics
Tournaments	0	0	0	5	0
Overall win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–5	3–5	0 / 5	38%
Year-end ranking	533	759	188

ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (3–2) ITF WTT (1–1)

Finals by surface Hard (4–2) Clay (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2023	Caribbean Open, Puerto Rico	Challenger	Hard	Kei Nishikori	2–6, 5–7
Loss	0–2	May 2025	Little Rock Challenger, US	Challenger	Hard	Patrick Kypson	1–6, 6–1, 5–7
Win	1–2	Aug 2025	Chicago Challenger, US	Challenger	Hard	Hsu Yu-hsiou	6–4, 6–2
Win	2–2	Sep 2025	Columbus Challenger, US	Challenger	Hard (i)	Martin Damm	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
Win	3–2	Sep 2025	Tiburon Challenger, US	Challenger	Hard	Tyler Zink	6–4, 6–4

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2022	M15 Orange Park, US	WTT	Clay	Wu Yibing	6–7(4–7), 5–7
Win	1–1	Aug 2024	M25 Southaven, US	WTT	Hard	Tyler Zink	6–4, 7–6(7–3)

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (0–2) ITF WTT (1–0)

Finals by surface Hard (1–2) Clay (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2025	Cranbrook Tennis Classic, US	Challenger	Hard	Theodore Winegar	Hsu Yu-hsiou Huang Tsung-hao	6–4, 3–6, [9–11]
Loss	0–2	Aug 2025	Chicago Challenger, US	Challenger	Hard	Theodore Winegar	Mac Kiger Ryan Seggerman	4–6, 6–3, [5–10]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2024	M25 Southaven, US	WTT	Hard	Lui Maxted	Keshav Chopra Andres Martin	6–2, 6–4

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	2022	Wimbledon	Grass	Mili Poljičak	6–7(2–7), 6–7(3–7)

External links

• Michael Zheng at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Michael Zheng at World Tennis