2023: First Team All-Ivy (doubles)
2023: Second Team All-Ivy (singles)
2023: NCAA Doubles Championship qualifier
2022: ITA Fall National Doubles Championship qualifier
2022: Fall Northeast Super Regional Doubles Champion
2022: First Team All-Ivy (doubles)
2022-23: First-team All-Ivy (doubles) … Second-team All-Ivy (singles) … 4-4 in fall singles and 12-2 in doubles, including a Northeast Super Regional doubles championship (with Edoardo Graziani) … Finished the spring 9-6 in singles and 11-4 in doubles … With Graziani, won Round of 32 NCAA Doubles Championship match over Florida State’s Cornut-Chauvinc and Dous-Karpenschif (5/24) … Played No. 32 Roko Horvat of Columbia to a DNF in ECAC Indoor Championship semifinal (2/18) … Defeated William & Mary’s George Davis while playing at #1 spot in the lineup (2/26) … Knocked off Wisconsin’s Jason Hildebrandt in straight sets (3/19) … Wrapped regular season with comeback, three-set win over Harvard’s Henry von der Schulenberg (4/22) … Academic All-Ivy … ITA Scholar Athlete ... PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Performer of the Year … PhillySIDA Academic All-Area.
2021-22: 5-6 in the fall … Went 11-6 in singles action during the spring, four wins coming in Ivy play ... Added 10 doubles victories, half of them in Ivy play, posting a 6-1 record at the top pairs spot … In season’s first match at #1, swept Boston University’s Jonah Dickson 6-0, 6-0 (2/25) … Rallied after dropping first set for three-set win to clinch comeback win over Washington (3/10) … Picked up another straight-set win in other match at #1 against Georgetown’s Kieran Foster (3/27) … Won first five Ivy doubles matches, teaming with Edoardo Graziani (4/2-4/17).
2019-20: Reached a high of #88 in the nation … Went 7-2 in singles and 3-3 in doubles during the fall, competing at the Farnsworth-Ivy Plus Tournament and ITA Northeast Regional … Won the consolation final in the Lenz bracket and reached the semifinal of the Whitman bracket with partner Dmitry Shatalin at the Farnsworth-Ivy Plus Tournament (9/20 – 9/22) … Entered the ITA Northeast Regional as the #23 seed and reached the semifinals, defeating three seeded opponents before falling to eventual champion Charlie Broom (Dartmouth) (10/17 – 10/22) … Reached the quarterfinal round in doubles, entering as the #6 seed with Shatalin … Became the first Quaker to reach the ITA Northeast Regional semifinals since Josh Pompan in 2016 … Went 6-6 in singles and 6-7 in doubles during spring action, splitting time between No. 1 and No. 2 in the lineup in singles and No. 1 in doubles … Earned a 2-0 sweep in singles/doubles against Michigan State (1/31) … Picked up a win over #124 Ryan Seggerman (Princeton) at the ECAC Championship (2/14) … Won three straight doubles matches from 2/28 – 3/10 … With partner Shatalin, defeated the #7 doubles team in the nation (Gabriel Decamps/Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi), as well as defeating #77 Mazzuchi in singles against #22 UCF (3/10) … All 2020 Ivy League spring sports were canceled on Wednesday, March 11 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
2018-19: Helped Penn to a No. 23 ITA team ranking (2/20) ... Helped Penn to its third ECAC Championship (2/17) ... Started spring ranked No. 56 in men's doubles in the ITA with Edoardo Graziani ... Posted a 10-3 record in doubles in the fall ... One of six Quakers with double-digit wins in singles in the spring ... Won the Gold Draw at the Ivy Plus in doubles (9/23) ... Made the round of 16 at the Northeast Regional in doubles (10/15) ... Started spring 6-0 ... Came back from 2-5 down in the third set to win, 7-5, and clinch win against Temple ... ITA All-Academic Scholar Athlete.Â
High School: Team captain ... Two-time runner-up at the Class 6A state singles championship (2017 and 2018) ... Ranked No. 2 in Texas by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) (2017) ... Won boys doubles championship at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) 18 Championships (2017) ... Won Region III-6A championship (2017) ... Placed third at USTA Nationals in doubles ... Won 16 doubles division of the ASICS Easter Bowl (2016) ... Took second in mixed doubles with sister, Kelly, at the Region III-6A championships (2015) ... Team MVP (2014-2018).Â
Personal: Son of Baili Zhang and Norman Zhu ... Sister, Kelly, plays tennis at MIT ... Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.
| Kevin Zhu Career (Singles) |
| |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
Ivy |
Fall |
Spring |
Over |
| 2019-20 |
1-0 |
5-1 |
5-12 |
|
|
|
0-6 |
9-5 |
11-13 |
20-18 |
| 2020-21 |
2-2 |
4-4 |
|
|
|
|
|
7-2 |
6-6 |
13-8 |
| 2021-22 |
2-0 |
|
2-2 |
7-4 |
|
|
4-2 |
5-6 |
11-6 |
16-12 |
| Career |
5-2 |
9-5 |
7-14 |
7-4 |
|
|
4-8 |
21-13 |
28-25 |
49-38 |
| Kevin Zhu Career (Doubles) |
| |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Ivy |
Fall |
Spring |
Over |
| 2019-20 |
1-0 |
6-6 |
0-1 |
|
10-3 |
7-7 |
17-10 |
| 2020-21 |
5-7 |
1-0 |
|
|
3-3 |
6-7 |
9-10 |
| 2021-22 |
6-1 |
4-8 |
|
5-1 |
9-3 |
10-9 |
19-12 |
| Career |
11-8 |
11-14 |
0-1 |
5-1 |
22-9 |
23-23 |
45-32 |
