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Career Singles Record: 18-19
Career Doubles Record: 14-16
Feature Content
January 2012: Serve & Volley: Brandon Fickey
January 2012: Challenges ahead for freshman Vols
Doubles Title
2011 Tennessee Fall Invitational (Flight 3)
2011-12 (Freshman)
Singles Record: 18-19 (4-7 SEC)
Doubles Record: 14-16 (1-9 SEC)
Notes: Started his career playing mostly at the No. 2 position in both lineups. Started year in doubles playing with Edward Jones but has lately been playing with Jarryd Chaplin. Moved down to the No. 3 position with Bryan Swartz ... Started dual match career off on a four-match winning streak, winning all of them in straight sets ... Moved down to the No. 3 singles position and snapped 8-match losing streak, beating No. 48 Jonas Lutjen of Ole Miss and No. 75 Malte Stropp of Mississippi State ... Ran record to 3-0 to start at the No. 3 position with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Baylor's Robert Verzaal ... Clinched the Vols' 5-2 win at Arkansas with a 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 win over Matt Walters ... Won his only completed match at the SEC Championships, beating Alabama's Jarryd Botha. FALL: Finished first fall season with an 8-5 record in singles and a 6-3 doubles record. His eight singles victories tied for second-most on the team ... Reached the singles final in his first career tournament, rolling to the top-flight final of the Tennessee Fall Invitational before falling to teammate Mikelis Libietis 6-3, 7-6 (2). At that same tournament, Fickey and senior Bryan Swartz won the third-flight doubles title with an 8-6 win against Hugo Klientorsky and Niklas Schroeder of Eastern Kentucky ... Reached the doubles quarterfinals of the USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships with junior Edward Jones. The two lost to second-seeded and 25th-ranked Josh MacTaggart and Stephen Vogl 8-5.
Prior to Tennessee
Signed with Tennessee in November 2010 as the top-ranked player in the Volunteer State and a top-25 national blue-chip recruit by TennisRecruiting.net ... Made history by becoming the first player to win four consecutive state high school singles titles ... Led Webb School to back-to-back team championships while playing at the No. 1 position ... Played some of his senior-season matches left-handed after breaking his right hand during the season.
Personal
Parents: Jeff and Tina Fickey ... Born Jan. 7, 1993, in Knoxville ... Has an older brother, Alex ... Interested in pursuing a career in medicine after college ... Played the trumpet for three years and the drums for four.
