Jeff Salzenstein

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Jeff "Salzy" Salzenstein (born October 14, 1973) is an American left-handed former professional tennis player.[1] In 1986 he won the US Boys' 12 National Hard Court Tennis Singles Championship and Doubles Championship. His highest singles ranking was world No. 100 in June 2004, when he became the oldest American to break into the top 100 in men's tennis, at 30 years of age.[2] His career-high in doubles was No. 68 in November 1997.[2]

Early life

Salzenstein is Jewish, was born in Peoria, Illinois, and lived in Englewood, Colorado.[3][4][5] His father was a tennis coach, and his parents divorced when he was five years old.[6]

Tennis career

Early career

As a sixth-grader, in addition to playing tennis the 12-year-old, five-foot tall, 85 pound Salzenstein was an A student, the president of his sixth-grade class, the editor of its newspaper, and a basketball and soccer player.[3] In 1986 he won the US Boys' 12 National Hard Court Tennis Singles Championship (defeating Brian Dunn and Vince Spadea along the way) and Doubles Championship.[7][8][3] He was the 13th double winner in the tournament’s 25-year history, and was also awarded the tournament’s sportsmanship award.[3] That year he also made it to the final, where he lost in a final set tiebreaker, in the 12-and-under National Clay Courts Championship.[9]

In 1990 Salzenstein reached the quarter-finals at the Under-16 Championships, and in 1992 he was ranked second in Under-18 boys in the United States.

He attended Cherry Creek High School (class of 1992) in Greenwood Village, Colorado.[10] As a freshman, Salzenstein played for the No. 1 singles Colorado state title, and as a sophomore he won the title.[11][12] As a junior, he was 5' 7" tall and weighed 120 pounds, was the team's # 1 singles player, and was runner-up in the state singles championship.[10][11] He won the singles state title as a senior, and was captain of the school tennis team.[13][10] In his high school career, his record was 74-6.[10]

College

Salzenstein attended Stanford University on a half-scholarship, earned an economics degree, played #1 singles his sophomore, junior, and senior years for the Stanford Cardinal, and was named an All-American in tennis two years in a row.[6][14] He reached the semifinals at the NCAA singles championships in 1995.[15] He won back-to-back team national titles with the team when he was its captain in 1995 and 1996.[13] He was PAC-10 All-Academic in 1994 (second team), and 1995 and 1996 (first team).[16] He was named the Senior Athlete of the Year at Stanford in 1996.[17]

Pro career

His first USTA win was in 1996, winning doubles titles with partner Justin Gimelstob. In 1996, Salzenstein won 23 matches in a row.[17]

At the 1997 US Open, he beat Mikael Tillström in the first round in four sets. At the Roland Garros doubles event, Salzenstein and partner Petr Korda made the round of 16.[15] That year he earned Rookie of the Year honors from Tennis Week.[17]

Salzenstein was injured for much of 1998 and 1999, and had surgeries before he was 24 years old on his knee and ankle.[6][18] He finished his degree at Stanford at this time.[15]

In May 2000, Salzenstein won the Tallahassee Challenger, beating Kevin Kim 6–3, 6–2. In November, he won the Urbana, Illinois Challenger, defeating Antony Dupuis 7–6 (4), 6–4 in the final. In 2001, he won the $50,000 Seascape Challenger at Aptos, California.[19][4] He won at Aptos in 2003 and at León, Mexico in 2004.[15]

Salzenstein played at the Australian Open, Roland Garros, and Wimbledon in 2004, and at the International Series Tournament at Delray Beach, where he made it to the semifinals.[15] In November 2004, he upset world No. 24 Jiří Novák) in straight sets in Luxembourg. In 2004 he became the oldest American to break into the top 100 in men's tennis, when Salzenstein did it at 30 years of age.[20]

At 33 years of age, Salzenstein stopped competing in tennis, and moved into coaching.[6]

Honors

In 2001, Salzenstein was inducted into the Colorado Tennis Hall Of Fame.[17]

Post-playing career

Salzenstein is a certified nutritional therapist.[21] He is also the founder of JS Performance Tennis School in Denver, Colorado, the CEO of Tennis Evolution, and runs a YouTube tennis coaching channel that goes by the same name.[22][21] Among others, he has coached Vasilisa Bardina.[13][21][20]

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP World Series (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (0–1)
Indoors (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 [[1997 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Orlando, United States World Series Clay Template:Flagicon Alex O'Brien Template:Flagicon Mark Merklein
Template:Flagicon Vince Spadea 		4–6, 6–4, 4–6

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 8 (5–3)

Legend
ATP Challenger (5–3)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (5–2)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Template:Dts Neumünster, Germany Challenger Carpet Template:Flagicon Arne Thoms 4–6, 4–6
Win 1–1 Template:Dts Tallahassee, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Kevin Kim 6–3, 6–2
Win 2–1 Template:Dts Urbana, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Antony Dupuis 7–6(7–4), 6–4
Win 3–1 Template:Dts Aptos, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Jeff Morrison 7–6(7–3), 6–4
Loss 3–2 Template:Dts Atlantic City, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Bjorn Rehnquist 4–6, 4–6
Win 4–2 Template:Dts Aptos, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Dmitry Tursunov 5–7, 7–5, 6–4
Loss 4–3 Template:Dts Denver, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Arvind Parmar 4–6, 4–6
Win 5–3 Template:Dts León, Mexico Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Wesley Moodie 6–3, 3–6, 7–5

Doubles: 9 (6–3)

Legend
ATP Challenger (6–3)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (5–3)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Template:Dts Binghamton, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Justin Gimelstob Template:Flagicon David DiLucia
Template:Flagicon Kenny Thorne 		6–2, 6–4
Loss 1–1 Template:Dts Amarillo, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Justin Gimelstob Template:Flagicon Max Mirnyi
Template:Flagicon Kevin Ullyett 		3–6, 4–6
Win 2–1 Template:Dts Daytona Beach, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Justin Gimelstob Template:Flagicon Chad Clark
Template:Flagicon Mark Merklein 		7–6, 3–6, 7–5
Win 3–1 Template:Dts Dresden, Germany Challenger Clay Template:Flagicon Mark Merklein Template:Flagicon Cecil Mamiit
Template:Flagicon Jimy Szymanski 		7–6, 6–1
Win 4–1 Template:Dts Binghamton, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Brian MacPhie Template:Flagicon Emanuel Couto
Template:Flagicon Tamer El Sawy 		7–5, 6–7, 6–3
Win 5–1 Template:Dts San Antonio, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Doug Flach Template:Flagicon Chad Clark
Template:Flagicon Brandon Hawk 		4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Loss 5–2 Template:Dts Puebla, Mexico Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Jim Thomas Template:Flagicon Oscar Ortiz
Template:Flagicon Marco Osorio 		1–6, 3–6
Win 6–2 Template:Dts Salinas, Ecuador Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Brandon Coupe Template:Flagicon Diego Veronelli
Template:Flagicon Martín Rodríguez 		6–7(3–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Loss 6–3 Template:Dts Seoul, South Korea Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Alex Bogomolov Jr. Template:Flagicon Alex Kim
Template:Flagicon Lee Hyung-taik 		6–1, 1–6, 4–6

Performance timeline

Template:Performance key

Singles

Tournament 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A Q1 A A A Q2 Q1 Q3 1R Q2 Q2 A 0 / 1 0–1 Template:Tennis win percentage
French Open A A Q1 A A A A Q3 Q2 1R Q1 A A 0 / 1 0–1 Template:Tennis win percentage
Wimbledon A A 1R A A Q1 Q3 Q1 Q2 1R A A A 0 / 2 0–2 Template:Tennis win percentage
US Open Q2 Q3 2R A A Q1 Q1 Q1 1R Q2 A A A 0 / 2 1–2 Template:Tennis win percentage
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 1–2 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–3 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 6 1–6 Template:Tennis win percentage
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A A Q2 A A A A A 1R 1R 1R Q1 0 / 3 0–3 Template:Tennis win percentage
Miami Q3 Q2 2R 1R Q2 A Q1 Q1 A 1R Q2 A A 0 /3 1–3 Template:Tennis win percentage
Canada A A A A A A Q1 Q1 A Q1 A A A 0 / 0 0–0 Template:Tennis win percentage
Cincinnati A A A A A Q2 Q1 A Q2 Q2 A A A 0 / 0 0–0 Template:Tennis win percentage
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 0 / 6 1–6 Template:Tennis win percentage

See also

References

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