Background
Fleishman was born in Santa Monica, and attended University of California, Los Angeles for one year before turning pro.
Fleishman was born in Santa Monica, and attended University of California, Los Angeles for one year before turning pro.
He is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Shark Wheel, a company that reinvented the wheel into a sine wave shaped design. Fleishman began playing tennis at the age of 8. At the age of 18, he played one season (1998-1999) of collegiate tennis at the University of California at Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles), at the Number.
2 position.
That year Fleishman helped University of California, Los Angeles to the Number. 1 ranking in the country, and to the final of the National Collegiate Athletics Association championships. In the International Tennis Federation junior world rankings, he reached Number.
18 in singles in 1998.
After one year of competing on the collegiate level, Fleishman opted to turn professional in 2000. Later, he was able to establish himself on the challenger circuit, winning a United States$25,000 event in Ecuador on red clay and then a United States$50,000 event in Vietnam on hard court.
This propelled his ranking to 11th in the United States and World # 127. In, Zack added another professional tournament victory to his resume winning the Costa Mesa Tennis Futures.
In his career Fleishman notably defeated Fernando González, David Nalbandian, Vince Spadea, Agustín Calleri, Mardy Fish, Robby Ginepri, Daniel Nestor, Tomáš Berdych, Kei Nishikori, Kevin Anderson, Santiago Giraldo, Yen-Hsun Lu, Denis Istomin, Nicolas Mahut, and Joachim Johansson.
2006 In 2006, Fleishman qualified for his first Grand Slam event: the Australian Open. 85 Dick Norman of Belgium. Fleishman rallied from two sets down to force a fifth set.
However, Fleishman was unable to capitalize on his momentum, and lost the fifth set and the match.
2007 In 2007, Fleishman again qualified for the Australian Open. This time, he defeated World # 26 Agustín Calleri of Argentina in the first round, before falling to Australian Wayne Arthurs in the second round.
10 Tommy Haas. He proceeded to beat fellow American Robert Kendrick 7–6 (4), 6–3, in the second round, compiling his first ever back-to-back wins in an Association of Tennis Professionals event.
He has won seven professional singles titles (and numerous doubles titles) in his career, starting with back to back satellite wins in El Salvador on hard court, followed by a win in Honduras on red clay. Fleishman then won back-to-back titles again, this time in his native California, winning two futures events in Redding and Chico (he also won the doubles title). He won three qualifying matches and then drew World Number. The same year, Fleishman won three matches and qualified at Wimbledon, where he faced World Number. On July 17, 2007, Fleishman achieved his first victory over a top-ten player, defeating World # 6 Fernando González 7–6 (5), 6–4, in the first round of the Los Angeles Tennis Center"s Countrywide Classic. In the quarterfinals, however, Fleishman fell to the eventual tournament champion Radek Štěpánek, 6–4, 6–2. 2008 In September 2008, Fleishman won the United States of America F23 in California, beating Michael McClune in the finals, 4–6, 6–4, 7–6 (5). He and McClune partnered to win the doubles in the tournament, dropping only one set along the way.
