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In-house Cash & Tracy Partnership: From Surgery & Finance to U.S. Open Stars

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September 4, 2025

While JJ Tracy was figuring out which college he would attend, the products of Ann Arbor and Hilton owners of South Carolina visited Ohio State. His master on the journey was Robert Cash, who had crossed the road with him in his junior year, but never competed with it.

“It’s usually because I don’t go that far in the game,” Tracy said.

“No, he didn’t give himself credibility,” New Albany, Ohio cash added soon.

Both Americans laughed. Today, they are close friends and work part-time on the ATP Tour, where they reach the U.S. Open semifinals, trying to be the only All-American men’s doubles team outside of this century, except for Twins Bob and Mike Bryan.

However, the Buckeye bond began to really form during this visit before becoming a teammate.

“I just realized JJ’s down-to-earth. It’s a little rare in tennis,” Cash said. “I feel like we have connections on RIP. We’re very similar in many ways. He’s very cool, very fun, and very good access to the team, and then when he started school he worked harder than everyone else, and that’s what I really admire about him.

“He worked so hard on the court and was an incredible teammate, an incredible friend. I just think we got along well in court and court, and that helped us.”

Cash’s long-term dream was to go to medical school and eventually become a surgeon and his partner Tracy studied finance at Ohio State University.

Tracy joked: “Because we have several doctors on the team, we never really spoke to any special financial professionals.”

The professional journey of the two is almost over. Cash and Tracy faced two matches in the semifinals in the 2024 NCAA Tag-up Championship. If they give up one of them, cash will be entirely focused on medical school applications, which will put his energy into being single.

Instead, they won the competition and received the American Open Wildcard. They were also awarded wildcards for the Hall of Fame Open, where they entered their first ATP Tour final. The Americans made enough progress on the ATP Challenger journey at the end of the season and decided to forge together, cash making his dream of becoming a surgeon pause.

This year, they won Los Cabos’ first tour title, and in the New York semifinals they ranked 11th in the PIF ATP Live Double Teams rankings.

“It was incredible. I was playing singles back then, but for a million years I never went to play 15k or singles challengers and challenged for it. I mean, it was incredible.” “It was very special to see us climbing rankings, from winning our first Challenger Championship to stringing some of these championships together, making our first ATP appearance and Los Cabos our first championship.

“We’re in Los Cabos for an interview and I’ve always said that our goal is to win one of the competitions in all levels. We’ve already eliminated everything outside of 500, 1,000, so it’s going to be a great option.”

One obvious reason behind Americans’ success is that they get along well. They not only blend together in the game, but they also blend well.

“He’s really easy to go everywhere. He always has a good attitude and a lot of energy,” Cash said. “People feed him and nothing really disappoints him, so he always smiles on his face, brings people, smiles on the faces of people around him, it’s an easy person.”

Tracy said:[He is a] Very good leaders in court, on the court. There was once in my life, and sometimes I was frustrated, and he was always knocking on my door and saying, “What’s going on, man? What’s good? He’s been trying to pick me up. He’s always leading college as a teammate, as a friend.”

When Cash and Tracy advanced to the last four Wednesday night, Countryman Ben Shelton posted his congratulations on Instagram Story: “The Hype for These Boys”. They are all in college at the same time.

“I think he’s very good for him, the college crew kind of sticks together. That guy is definitely smashing it. He ran. He’s a super, super nice guy. Very modest, very rooted, he’s nothing more than support for JJ and me, I’m off the court,” Cash said. “He doesn’t have to do that. He’s the top ten in the world in singles. He doesn’t have to give us time of day, but he’s a good guy and we’re really grateful.”

Previously distinguished college people knew their work was not done yet. Cash and Tracy returned to court Thursday to reach the finals against this year’s Roland Garros champions Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos.

“Our coaches are always off the field,” Cash said. “We have to take one step at a time. There are still competitions to participate in and competitions to win. The job is not finished yet, so we need to be happy and celebrate the victory tonight. But we have to focus and put all our energy and energy into tomorrow’s game. ”