Sara Ziodato

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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

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

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