Long before Miami lawyer Marko F. Cerenko passed the bar, he was running around a different kind of court, batting tennis balls back and forth as a professional player.

At his Georgia high school, Cerenko ranked seventh in the U.S. and first in the south region, which caught the attention of Duke University. By 2000, he was in senior year and captain of Duke’s team, which won the Atlantic Coast Conference four years in a row. Cerenko ranked No. 2 in the country, and was voted to the ACC’s top 50 tennis players of all time.