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2025-26 Women's Tennis Roster

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Esha Velaga

  • Class Junior
  • Highschool North Penn
  • Hometown Colmar, Pa.

Biography

CAREER HONORS
2025: First Team All-Ivy Singles
2025: All-Ivy Honorable Mention Doubles
2024: NCAA Singles and Doubles Qualifier

2024: Ivy League Rookie of the Year
2024: Ivy League Player of the Year
2024: Unanimous First Team All-Ivy
Singles
2024: ITA Scholar-Athlete 
2023: ITA Northeast Super Regionals Singles Title

2024-25: Unanimous first-team All-Ivy in singles ... Honorable mention All-Ivy in doubles
... Went 8-5 in singles and 8-6 in doubles play in the spring ... Qualified for the 2024 NCAA Women’s Tennis Singles Championship in the fall ... Was nationally ranked in singles by the ITA for the entirety of the spring season, finishing the year ranked #122 ... Highest ranking during the season was #57 (2/20) ... Appeared in 17 team matches throughout the spring, rotating through all three positions in the doubles lineup and the #1 and #2 spots in the singles lineup ... Earned a 4-1 conference singles record, garnering wins over Princeton’s Alice Ferlito (7-5, 7-5), #69 Columbia’s Fatima Keita (6-3, 7-5), Cornell’s Sage Loudon (7-5, 6-2), and Brown’s Gabriella Soliman (6-1, 6-3) to help propel her team to a second-place conference finish.

2023-24: Ivy League Rookie of the Year … Ivy League Player of the Year … Unanimous First Team All-Ivy Singles … NCAA Singles and Doubles Qualifier … ITA Northeast Super Regional Singles Champion ... ITA Scholar-Athlete … Finished the season with a 29-6 overall record, going 15-3 in the spring and 5-0 in Ivy play … Spent majority of the season in the #1 slot with a few matches in the #2 … Captured singles wins over  #48 Princeton’s Neha Velaga (6-1, 5-7, 6-3), #44 Columbia’s Ann Zheng (6-3, 6-3), #49 Yale’ Orly Ogilvy (7-5, 6-4), and #38 Harvard’s Stephanie Yakoff (5-7, 6-0, 6-3) … Beat the Crimson’s Kate Kim (3-6, 7-6, 6-1), #4 seed Maria Aguila of Boston College (6-1, 7-5), Syracuse’s Polina Kozyreva (6-4, 6-3), the Oranges’ Miyuka Kimoto (6-4, 4-6, 6-4), and the Tigers’ Neha Velaga (6-3, 6-0) at the ITA Northeast Super Regionals to claim Penn’s first singles title since 2019 (10/20-22) … Qualified for the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships being the first Quaker in program history to qualify for both in the same season.

High School: 2021 Girl's Singles PIAA 3A Singles state champion ... Ranked #4 in girl's 18 and under national singles ranking ... Blue-chip recruit ranked as high as 6 in recruiting class ... 3rd place and Sportsmanship Award recipient in singles at the Indoor National Championships in November 2022 ... Fifth place and Sportsmanship Award recipient in singles at the Easter Bowl Championships in April 2023 ... USTA National Junior Scholar Athlete Award recipient ... Salutatorian in graduating class of 1047 students ... National Merit Scholarship Winner ...  AP Scholar with Distinction.

Personal: Older sister, Neha, played college tennis at Princeton... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

  • 2024-25Sophomore

  • 2025-26Junior