Jan Zielinski

Height:
5-10
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Warsaw, Poland
High School:
Sopocka Akademic Tenisowa

2018-19 (SENIOR)
Three-time All-SEC performer ... received at-large bids to 2019 NCAA singles and doubles championships ... finished senior season as Georgia's top-ranked singles and doubles player with a No. 17 ranking in ITA singles and No. 12 doubles ranking with Robert Loeb … led Georgia in singles with a 28-13 overall record, including a 12-6 mark in dual-match play ... tallied a team-high 12 singles victories over nationally-ranked opponents ... won 7 of his singles matches against SEC opponents ... 2017 ITA All-American … … he and Robert Loeb finished an impressive 6-2 at court one against nationally-ranked opponents … the duo was 7-3 against SEC opponents at the No. 1 court … moved into the top-15 of Georgia’s career record book with 96 in the last four years … finished the fall ranked No. 2 nationally in singles in the ITA rankings … won the ITA Southeast Region title … big singles wins this year include against No. 1 Petros Chrysochos from Wake Forest, No. 33 Johannes Schretter from Baylor, No. 62 John McNally from Ohio State, No. 39 Mazen Osama from Alabama and No. 60 Oscar Mesquida from Arkansas ... finished the fall season ranked No. 2 in the ITA top-125 singles rankings ... was the ITA Southeast Regional singles champion ... finished with a 15-3 singles record ... defeated seven nationally-ranked opponents ... finished runner-up in singles in the Battle of the Bay Classic ... Georgia tandem ousted No. 2 seed Brandon Holt and Tanner Smith from USC in the semifinals before winning in the finals against Texas' Colin Market and Harrison Scott ... ousted defending NCAA singles champion Petros Chrysochos from Wake Forest, 7-5, 6-4.

2017-18 (JUNIOR)
Second-Team All-SEC ... returned for his junior year to lead the Bulldogs in singles wins with a 29-9 record …compiled an impressive 16-3 record in dual-match play … went 8-2 against SEC opponents in singles … moved up to the No. 2 singles spot, where he was 3-0 this year … in his last two matches of the regular season he defeated 21st-ranked Cameron Klinger from Vanderbilt and 53rd-ranked Will Bushamuka from Kentucky … won four-straight singles matches to end the regular season … played No. 1 in doubles with Robert Loeb …maintained an Oracle/ITA ranking on two different doubles teams … two doubles wins away from breaking into the top-20 all-time Bulldogs in career doubles wins...Fall: Ranked No. 30 in the Oracle/ITA Rankings at the end of the fall...posted a team-best 11-4 doubles record with Robert Loeb in the fall, with two wins over ranked opponents...the doubles pair topped the ITA Southeast Regional with wins over two Florida tandems...won the Southern Intercollegiates doubles title for the second year in a row, this time with Loeb...ranked No. 7 in the Oracle/ITA Rankings at the end of the fall in doubles with Loeb.

2016-17 (SOPHOMORE)
ITA All-American…First Team All-SEC…NCAA Championship doubles finalist with Robert Loeb…appeared in the championship match of the doubles tournament for the sixth time in Georgia history (and first since 2005)…tied with Georgia men’s tennis alum John Isner for third most doubles wins in a single season in school history at 38…the Zielinski/Loeb duo finished with a 24-10 overall doubles record and a 17-10 performance on the first court…went 3-1 in the NCAA Championships doubles tournament with wins over Hugo Di Feo and Martin Joyce of Ohio State, Jack Findel-Hawkins and Lusse Muscheites of North Florida and Jerry Lopez and Reese Stalder of TCU, each ranked No. 40, No. 14 and No. 12, respectively… recorded five wins against the other nine doubles pairs that make up the final Oracle/ITA top-10 on the season…the tandem was 11-5 against ranked opponents…entered the NCAA Championships as the number one seed in the tournament and in the nation…broke the top-10 doubles rankings on March 21 after knocking off five consecutive ranked opponents, including No. 2 Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim of Wake Forest… clinched seven total doubles points… ranked third in the final Oracle/ITA Rankings | Singles: 29-11 in singles, including three wins against ranked opponents and a team second-best five match-clinchers ...went 7-3 in conference play… won nine out of 10 completed singles matches between Feb. 19 and April 7, an 11-1 stretch for the Bulldogs…primarily played No. 4 singles, collecting a 13-4 record…clinched the NCAA Championship quarterfinals match against University of Southern California to send Georgia into the team semi-finals… clinched the then-No. 15 Kentucky match, the second-highest ranked team Georgia defeated this season| Fall Highlights: Partnered with Walker Duncan for three ranked wins to claim the doubles title at the Southern Intercollegiate Championships

2015-16 (FRESHMAN)
Clinched Georgia’s NCAA Tournament quarterfinal win over No. 2 North Carolina with a 6-4, 6-2 win on court No. 5…compiled a singles record of 11-10, including 6-2 mark in conference matches and three match-clinching victories…went 19-9 in doubles alongside partner Paul Oosterbaan, winning two matches against ranked opponents…played mostly at the No. 5 singles court and the No. 2 doubles position …won two matches at the No.3 singles court and one at No. 4…clinched Georgia’s win against Florida with a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory against then-No. 84 ranked Chase Perez-Blanco…teamed with Paul Oosterbaan to win eight of his final nine doubles matches…picked up the first SEC victory of his career in UGA’s win vs. Alabama…earned a pair of singles victories against Tenessee & Kentucky...picked up two singles wins in UGA’s victories against No. 18 Kentucky and No. 10 Texas A&M… teamed up with Oosterbaan to defeat Mississippi State’s Niclas Braun/Trevor Foshey in the SEC tournament…Fall Highlights: Enrolled at Georgia in January, 2016.

BEFORE GEORGIA
Claimed numerous singles and doubles titles at junior ITF events and earned a gold medal while representing Poland at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing ... played in the U.S. Open, French Open and Wimbledon junior tournaments ... U18 national champion in Poland in 2014 and the U14 national champion in 2010 ... won the 2015 Polish Open doubles ... ranked as high as No. 24 in ITF juniors in 2014.

PERSONAL
Born Nov. 16, 1996...son of Andrzej Zielinski and Dorota Zielinska...Recipient of the Rafael E. Jordan Men's Tennis Scholarship...Major: Sport Management.