PRO-ATHLETES

CHRISTOPHER EUBANKS

CLS '18, TENNIS PLAYER,
ATP TOUR

BY TONY REHAGEN



Christopher Eubanks learned a lot as a business major and student athlete at Georgia Tech—but not much about failure. He was a two-time ACC Men’s Tennis Player of the Year, an Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American, he won the 2017 National Division I ITA/Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award, and spent two solid years ranked among the top 10 men’s collegiate players in the country.Since Eubanks passed up his senior year at Tech to turn pro, the accolades have been a bit slower to come. He is currently ranked No. 188 in the world, with a career record of just 2-6 at the professional level. But he’s only 23, and he’s already had a professional breakthrough, advancing to the quarterfinals of the 2017 BB&T Atlanta Open, and he qualified for the 2017 U.S. Open and the 2019 Australian Open. And his blistering serve recently earned him a spot among the Tennis Channel’s “10 to Watch.” Fortunately, attending Tech prepared Eubanks for the long
haul. “Balancing being a student-athlete here is definitely difficult. (There’s no getting around that),” he told the Alumni Magazine in 2017. “But if there’s something Tech has taught me, it’s patience.” 
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