One year after winning the 2024 NCAA doubles tennis championship, former Buckeyes J.J. Tracy and Robert Cash will compete at the French Open.
The former Buckeyes will start their quest for the grand slam title with a match against No. 33 Rohan Bopanna and No. 52 Adam Pavlasek in the first round.
Tracy and Cash are ranked No. 67 and No. 71, respectively, in the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) rankings. In addition to winning the national championship, Cash and Tracy both left Columbus as two of the program’s most accomplished players. Cash left Ohio State with a program-record 148 doubles wins, while Tracy compiled a 77-12 record across both singles and doubles events during his senior season, on the way to becoming Ohio State’s Male Athlete of the Year.
Cash and Tracy are off to productive starts to their professional careers, and as a Doubles pair have won six titles on the ATP Challengers Tour. Their last two victories came on clay surfaces, the same type of surface they will play on at the French Open.
Last year, the duo got their first taste of grand slam tennis in the US Open, where they won their first-round match in straight sets, before being defeated in the second round by Argentinian pairing Máximo González and Andrés Molteni.
