Career
The right-hander reached his highest singles Association of Tennis Professionals-ranking on 12 December 1988, when he became the number 126 of the world when he was still 3 weeks short of his 19th birthday. He remained in the top 130 (with the exception of a couple of weeks) through August 1989. His singles highlights in 1988 included Winning the Indian Satellite Circuit, making R2 of the Association of Tennis Professionals tour event in Schenectady (losing to Kriek in R2) and at th Seoul Olympics (where he lost to Hlasek in R2), making the finals of a Challenger in New Haven (losing to Vijay Amritraj) and the semifinal of a Challenger in Indonesia.
This decent set of performances had taken Zeeshan to 178 in the singles rankings in November 1988, but he then dominated a Satellite circuit in Japan to finish the year as 126 in Singles.
At the end of 1988, Zeeshan"s doubles ranking at 154. In 1989, Zeeshan made the quater finals of a Challenger in Nigeria early in the year, and then qualified into tour events in Key Biscayne, Tokyo (where he beat Leif Shiras before losing to Stefan Edberg in R2), Singapore and London (Queen"s Club).
In 1989 he played his only Grand Slam match in singles, losing in straight sets to Wally Masur at Wimbledon. In 1988, he had also made the second round of the Wimbledon doubles (with Mark Ferreira), two Challenger doubles finals (one with Mark) and four Challenger semi-finals (one of them with 37-year-old Anand Amritraj).
But after 1991, Zeeshan was mainly playing Challengers and Satellites in India and Asia.
Zeeshan was also ranked #2 in the world and #1in Asia in the Juniors in 1986. Later in the same year Zeeshan also reached the Juniors doubles finals at the United States Open. Zeeshan stopped playing on the professional circuit in 1995 due to a back injury.
In 2014 Zeeshan was awarded the prestigious Dhyan Chand from the President of India for his contribution to tennis in India.
He is currently married with two kids and has his tennis academy in Bangalore.