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Jesse Levine (born October 15, 1987) is an American-Canadian〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ITF profile – Jesse Levine )〕〔 professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles rank of world no. 69 on October 1, 2012. Levine represented the United States from 2007 to 2012, but has represented Canada since 2013. 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 won the USTA boys' 16s doubles championship with his doubles partner. As a 17-year-old, he won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship with his doubles partner. Playing one year of no. 1 singles as a freshman for the University of Florida in 2007, he lost only one match, finishing his career with a 24–1 record. In June 2009, while representing the United States on tour, he scored his most significant victory to date, defeating world no. 24 (and former world no. 1) Marat Safin at Wimbledon. The following month he defeated the second top-50 player of his career, world no. 48 Philipp Petzschner. His most significant achievement in doubles, was making the finals in the 2009 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, losing to the Bryan brothers. ==Early life and Jewish heritage== Levine was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and grew up in Ottawa's Centrepointe neighborhood. His father Nathan had played tennis for Penn State. Jesse 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 Dudi Sela, Shahar Pe'er, Sharon Fichman, and Camila Giorgi is one of a number of young Jewish tennis players who are highly ranked.〔(Levi, Joshua, "Israeli star trains at Maccabi courts," ''The Australian Jewish News'', 1/10/08, accessed 6/24/09 )〕〔("Roads' Beth David Congregation to honor Jewish, Israeli Sony Ericsson players; A congregation will recognize Jewish and Israeli tennis players in the Sony Ericsson Open," ''The Miami Herald'', 3/22/09; accessed 6/4/09 )〕 "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 shouted out encouragement such as: "Come on, man, your opponent hasn't even had his bar mitzvah yet!"〔 As a youth, Levine took tennis lessons at the Ottawa Athletic Club.〔 He and his family moved to Florida in 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.〔 〕 Levine currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida.〔("College Freshman Continues Charge at Delray Beach," ATPtennis.com, 1/31/07, accessed 11/25/07 )〕〔 〕 He said in 2009 that he at that point considered himself "100% American", saying that if he were to play Davis Cup, it would be for the US.〔〔(Cleary, Martin, "Levine wins, but don't call him Canadian: Ottawa-born Wimbledon match winner says he's '100-per-cent American'", Ottawa Citizen, 6/26/09, accessed 6/26/09 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jesse Levine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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