Jarmere Jenkins was the 2013 Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Player of the Year and male ACC Athlete of the Year after earning the national championships in indoor singles, outdoor doubles and team competition while finishing runner up in outdoor singles.
13 Facts About Jarmere Jenkins
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Jarmere Jenkins was the first Atlantic Coast Conference athlete to win ACC athlete of the year solely for tennis accomplishments.
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Jarmere Jenkins is from College Park, Georgia, where he attended Alpha Omega Academy.
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Jarmere Jenkins has competed in the Junior US Open, Junior French Open and Junior Wimbledon.
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Jarmere Jenkins was finalist in the 2006 Junior US Open boys doubles.
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Jarmere Jenkins ended the year ranked 6th nationally in both singles and doubles although he had ranked as high as 3rd and 5th during the year.
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Jarmere Jenkins was the 2013 ITA National Player of the Year, 2013 National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament MVP for the National Champion University of Virginia men's tennis team, 2013 NCAA Doubles Champion, 2013 NCAA Singles runner-up, 2012 ITA Indoor Intercollegiate singles Champion and the 2013 Anthony J McKevlin male ACC Athlete of the Year.
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Jarmere Jenkins won his first professional tournament on June 30,2013 at the $10,000 United States Tennis Association Pro Circuit Linda Bogdan Memorial Futures Tournament.
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Jarmere Jenkins visited Australia for six weeks in February 2014 and met with some success, including a victory over Luke Saville at the Australia F1 Futures tournament finals in Happy Valley.
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At the 2014 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger 1, Jarmere Jenkins was matched up against number 1 seed Go Soeda in the first round, and 258th ranked Jarmere Jenkins won in two sets.
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Jarmere Jenkins missed 10 months of competition due to an achilles tendon injury, and did not reach the finals of any tournaments between January 9,2015 and June 27,2016.
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Jarmere Jenkins began hitting with Serena when she returned to the court following the birth of Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr, during the 2017 US Open.
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The son of Jackie and Brenda Jenkins, Jarmere has eight siblings.