Sara Ziodato
5'10''
                                Height
                            Sophomore
                                Class
                            Trieste, Italy
                                Hometown
                            Istituto Scolastico Magnum
                                High School
                            Baylor
                                Previous School
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                            2024-25
- All-ACC First Team in singles
 - NCAA Singles Qualifier
 - Ranked career best No. 13 in the ITA Preseason Doubles rankings with Meggie Navarro
 - Ranked No. 48 in the ITA Preseason Singles rankings
 - Reached career best No. 19 in the ITA Singles rankings on Feb. 20
 - Reached No. 38 in the ITA Doubles rankings with Meggie Navarro on Feb. 20 (season best)
 - Finished as the finalist in singles and doubles (with Meggie Navarro) at the ITA Atlantic Regional
 - Alternate for the NCAA Doubles Championship
 - Granted a fifth year of eligibility by the NCAA
 - Went 20-7 in singles this year. Finished with tied for the first dual match wins on the team with 15
 - Went 19-11 in doubles on the season and finished 14-8 with Navarro
 - Defeated No. 40 Lily Jones of Michigan 6-4, 6-1 on court three (2/1)
 - Picked up the first doubles ranked win of her career, partnering with Navarro to top No. 54 Maeve Thornton and Vanesa Suarez 6-3 in UVA’s 4-2 win over No. 13 Tennessee (2/7)
 - Won the clincher in Virginia’s 4-3 comeback victory over No. 8 North Carolina, defeating No. 10 Theadora Rabman 7-6 (7), 2-6, 7-6 (3). The win was the highest ranked win of her career (2/8)
 - Earned ACC Player of the Week (2/11) after winning the clincher against the Tar Heels, sending Virginia to the program’s first ever semifinal at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship
 - Started the dual match season an undefeated 10-0 in singles
 - Picked up her 100th career singles victory with a 6-0, 6-2 win over No. 44 Ozlem Uslu of Virginia Tech on the top court (4/10)
 - Recipient of the Coach’s Award for Excellence at the Hoos Choice Awards
 - All-ACC Academic Team
 - ACC Academic Honor Roll
 
2023-24
- Third straight season posting 20 or more singles victories, first time reaching the 30-win mark
 - Went 30-12 in singles, the 19th player in program history to record 30 or more singles victories in a season
 - Had a 12-2 record at No. 4 singles
 - 23-11 in doubles this year
 - Ranked as high as No. 53 in singles (3/5)
 - Ranked No. 71 in doubles at the end of the season (3/29)
 - Won the A2 Singles Flight at the Fall Ranked Spotlight tournament in Cary, going 5-0 in singles
 - Also won her singles bracket at the Fall Ranked Spotlight tournament, going 3-0 partnering with Hibah Shaikh
 - Advanced to the singles quarterfinals at the ITA Atlantic Regional
 - All-ACC Academic Team
 - ACC Academic Honor Roll
 
2022-23
- Presented the “Teammate of the Year” award for women’s tennis at the 2023 Hoos Choice Awards
 - Led the Cavaliers in singles victories with 27, going 27-11 including a 9-4 record in ACC play
 - Played the majority of her matches on court five, but played at least one match on courts 2-6 through the year
 - Went 17-14 in doubles, including a 9-7 dual match record (all at No. 3)
 - Went 8-1 in her final 10 singles matches of the year
 - VaSID Second Team All-State in Singles
 - All-ACC Academic Team
 - ITA Scholar Athlete
 - ACC Academic Honor Roll
 
2021-22
- Went 23-11 in singles, including a 10-3 record in conference play; 6-8 in doubles, going 3-4 in dual matches
 - Won the clinching point in the Cavaliers’ 4-3 upset of No. 3 NC State during the regular season, defeating Nell Miller 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-1
 - Closed out the regular season on a five-match win streak in singles
 - Started her Cavalier career with a win against Alesya Yakubovich of Old Dominion at the Wahoowa Invitational (9/19)
 - ACC Academic Honor Roll
 
2020-21 at Baylor
- Went 2-2 in singles, playing on courts 4-6
 - Went 2-1 in doubles playing on court 3
 
Juniors
- Career-high junior ranking of 75
 - Won a pair of Grade 4 junior singles titles in 2018, the Slovenian Junior Open and the Justine Henin Junior Cup, also taking the doubles title at the latter
 - Competed in the Junior French Open and Junior Wimbledon
 
Personal
- Applied Statistics major
 - Recipient of the 2021-22 Llewellyn and Sarah Watts Miller Scholarship
 
CAREER STATS
| SINGLES | DOUBLES | 
|||||
| Year | Overall | Dual | ACC | Overall | Dual | ACC | 
| 2020-21 at Baylor | 2-2 | 2-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | ||
| 2021-22 | 23-11 | 18-7 | 9-3 | 6-8 | 3-4 | 3-3 | 
| 2022-23 | 27-11 | 16-7 | 9-4 | 17-14 | 9-7 | 4-4 | 
| 2023-24 | 30-12 | 18-8 | 7-5 | 23-11 | 13-8 | 4-4 | 
| 2024-25 | 20-7 | 15-5 | 6-3 | 19-11 | 13-7 | 5-4 | 
| Career | 102-36 | 69-29 | 31-15 | 67-45 | 40-27 | 16-15 | 
