Jeffrey John Wolf


Jeffrey John "J. J." Wolf is an American professional tennis player. Wolf played collegiately at The Ohio State University. Wolf began playing semi-pro tennis in 2016 and three years later, in July 2019, signed with Topnotch Management to play professionally.

Early years

Wolf was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Cincinnati Country Day School in Indian Hill, Ohio. In 2016, as the nation's third ranked recruit, he committed to playing collegiate tennis for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
On the junior tour, Wolf has a career high ranking of 18 achieved on 16 May 2016.

College

In his first season, at Ohio State University, Wolf was named 2017 Big Ten Freshman of the Year and First-Team All Big Ten.
As of April 23, 2019 Wolf is the #1 ranked college player in the U.S.
In 2019, Wolf had a combined record of 45-3 between singles and doubles matchplay. On April 25, 2019, Wolf was named Big Ten Men's Tennis Athlete of the Year.

Professional Career

Wolf made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2016 US Open in the doubles event, partnering John McNally. He received a wild card to play in the men's singles qualifying competition for the 2017 U.S. Open, but did not win a set.
On August 12th, 2018, Wolf defeated world No. 85 Jozef Kovalik in the first round of qualifying at the 2018 Western and Southern Open in Mason, Ohio. Wolf won the match 7-6, 7-6. This upset marked Wolf's first win against an ATP top 100 player.
Wolf turned professional in July of 2019 and signed with Topnotch Management.
On September 22nd Wolf made it to the finals of the Columbus 3 Challenger event losing to Peter Polansky 6-3 7-6. He beat fellow rising American Michael Mmoh in the round of 16 and No. 1 seeded Emilio Gómez in the semi-finals.
Wolf reached a career high of 189 in the ATP Singles Rankings on November 18th, 2019 after winning the 2019 Champaign Challenger, defeating Sebastian Korda 6-4, 6-7, 7-6 in a tight two-and-a-half hour match. In January 2020 he started the year by winning the ATP Challenger Tour final in Noumea, defeating Yuichi Sugita in the final.

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 5 (5–1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0USA F34, HarlingenFuturesHard Evan Zhu6–7, 6–1, 6–2
Win2–02019 Columbus Challenger – Singles|Columbus, USAChallengerHard Mikael Torpegaard6–7, 6–3, 6–4
Loss2–12019 Columbus Challenger III – Singles|Columbus, USAChallengerHard Peter Polansky3–6, 6–7
Win3–12019 JSM Challenger of Champaign–Urbana – Singles|Champaign, USAChallengerHard Sebastian Korda6–4, 6–7, 7–6
Win4–12020 BNP Paribas de Nouvelle-Calédonie – Singles|Noumea, USAChallengerHard Yūichi Sugita6–2, 6–2
Win5–12020 Columbus Challenger – Singles|Columbus, USAChallengerHard Denis Istomin6–4, 6–2