Biography
AWARDS
• 3x Patriot League All-Conference Second Team (2018, 19, 21)
• 3x Patriot League Academic Honor Roll (2018, 19, 20)
• 2x ITA Scholar-Athlete (2018, 20)
• 1x PL Player of the Week (3/12/19)
AS A SENIOR IN 2020-21
Earned his third Patriot League All-Conference Second Team award ... Collected three singles wins, including a No. 2 victory over Lehigh during the PL quarterfinals ... Also collected wins at line 3 against Colgate and Merrimack ... Appeared in nine doubles matches with Jose Maria Robalino, collecting two wins at line 2 against Merrimack ... Posted three wins in the top slot against Bryant, Colgate and Holy Cross.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2019-20
Recorded a team-high 10 singles wins and eight doubles wins ... Collected wins at line 2 against Yale, Dartmouth, MIT and Merrimack ... Added a victory in the No. 3 slot against James Madison ... Won both qualifying round matches against Army and Columbia at the ITA Northeast Regionals and added a win against Cornell before dropping a tough battle in the round of 64 to Columbia's No. 56 Adam Ambrozy (6-2, 7-5) ... Teamed with David Bogatin for wins in the No. 1 slot against Merrimack and MIT ... Faced off against the No. 2 duo from No. 5 Michigan and also the No. 28 doubles team from Dartmouth during the dual season ... Combined for six doubles wins during the fall with two each alongside Bogatin (Bryan, Bentley), Pete Siozios (Dartmouth, Delaware) and Max Hartenstein (Virginia Tech, Cornell).
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2018-19
Repeated as recipient of Patriot League All-Conference Second Team accolades after posting 12 singles wins and team-high 16 doubles victories ... Played primarily at No. 1 singles during the spring, collecting wins against Fordham, Fairfield, Lehigh, Siena and Sacred Heart ... Also earned a straight-sets win against Bucknell in the No. 2 slot during the PL quarterfinals ... Finished runner-up at the Dartmouth Fall Invitational with wins over the Big Green and Brown after posting wins against Villanova and Marist at the Brown Invitational ... Played at No. 1 doubles all spring ... Teamed with David Bogatin for wins over Bucknell (2x), Colgate, Lafayette, Fordham and MIT ... Claimed a win against Holy Cross with Pete Siozios following a win over Siena alongside Max Hartenstein ... Won the A Doubles Flight at the UConn Fall Invitational with Max Stehling following victories over the host Huskies (2x), Sacred Heart and Fairfield ... Also claimed his second Patriot League Academic Honor Roll nod for posting a GPA above 3.20.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2017-18
Finished second on the team with 21 wins (against 10 losses) with an 11-7 mark during the dual season to earn Patriot League All-Conference Second Team accolades ... Went 2-0 at line 1 with victories over Georgetown and Merrimack ... Posted wins in the No. 2 slot against Navy (2x), then-No. 26 Harvard, UC Riverside, Fordham, UConn and MIT ... Primarily played with Ethan Kolsky in doubles, earning key wins at lines 3 against Army, Lehigh, UC Riverside and MIT ... Also posted victories in the No. 2 slot against Siena and Holy Cross ... Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll for owning a GPA above 3.20.
BEFORE BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Won the USTA's "The Florida Yacht Club" championship his senior year after winning the 2016 USTA Lake Cane Summer Hummer Level 6 singles title ... Finished in the top 16 at the ITA University of Florida singles ... Won the Guangdong province's 14th sports meeting championship ... Finished as a semifinalist in singles action on the Nike China National Tour U16 (Jiangmen) his sophomore year while also placing as a doubles finalist on the same tour in Dalian ... A single champion and doubles finalist in the 16th Guangzhou city tennis meeting his freshman year.
PERSONAL
Born July 28, 1999 ... Son of Yifeng Lu and Ge Zhang ... Enrolled in the Questrom School of Business, majoring in business administration and management.
