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2017-18 Women's Tennis

Lina Qostal

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Lycee Descartes
  • Hometown Rabat, Morocco

Biography

2017-18: Match Results ... Went 13-14 in singles and 6-10 in doubles on the year, playing almost exclusively at No. 1 in both ... Advanced to the quarterfinals of the singles bracket at the 2017 ITA Northeast Regional (Oct. 19-Oct. 22), tallying wins over Quinnipiac, Cornell, Buffalo and Princeton ... Won five doubles matches during the spring with Ashley Zhu ... Was hampered with injury in the latter stages of the spring season ... Won two matches in singles at the Cissie Leary Invitational (Sept. 22-23) ... Helped Penn to its first win at the ITA Kickoff Event over Furman to open the spring, with a victory against Katty Weymouth (Jan. 26).

2016-17: Match Results ... 2017 ITA All-Academic Team ... Went 18-12 overall in singles, including a 3-4 mark in the Ivy League ... Went 12-10 overall in doubles, breaking even at 3-3 in the Ivy League ... Boasted a nine-match winning streak through the middle part of the season, with all victories coming in straight sets ... Went 3-1 at the Cissie Leary Invitational ... Won one singles match each at both the Tribe Invite and the Roar-ee Invite ... Went 1-1 at ITA Regionals ... Ivy League singles wins came against Yale, Brown and Harvard ... Played primarily at the No. 4 position in singles throughout the spring, also making appearances at No. 2, 3 and 5 ... Partnered primarily with Ria Vaidya in doubles during the spring season, as the duo went 6-4 together ... Ivy wins in doubles came against Princeton, Cornell and Brown.

2015-16: Match Results ... Went 18-12 overall and 2-5 in the Ivy League in singles ... Went 16-9 overall and 4-2 in the Ivy League in doubles ... Went 9-5 in singles and 8-3 in doubles in the fall ... Went 1-1 at the Tribe Invitational ... Went 1-2 at the Princeton Invitational ... Went 3-1 at the Cissie Leary Invitational, advancing to the finals of 'Flight B' ... Went 2-1 at ITA Regionals ... Went 9-7 in singles and 8-6 in doubles during the spring season ... Began her season 5-0 ... Ivy wins came over Princeton and Harvard.

2014-15: Match Results ... Finished with a 15-13 overall singles record, going 3-4 in Ivy League matches ... Went 12-10 overall in doubles play, with a 2-3 Ivy League record ... Began the fall going 3-2 at the Cissie Leary Invitational ... Was 3-0 at the Tribe Invitational ... Went 1-1 at the Princeton Invitational ... Won her first round match in singles at the ITA Regionals ... Was 4-4 in doubles matches in the fall ... Won her first round match with playing partner Alexandra Ion at ITA Regionals ... In the spring went 6-7 in singles, playing primarily at the No. 4 position, and 8-6 in doubles, playing primarily at the No. 3 position ... Collected Ivy League wins over Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia ... Won her first three doubles matches of the spring ... Won two Ivy matches with Luba Vazhenina against Cornell and Columbia.

High School: Played club tennis for USCM Rabat ... Ranked as the No. 2 junior player in Morocco ... Represented Morocco in the 2013 Fed Cup ... Semifinalist, finishing in third place at the African Junior Championship in 2013 ... Played as a wildcard entry in the 2013 Grand Prix Lalla Meryem WTA event ... Represented Morocco in the Junior World Cup in the Czech Republic in 2011 ... Participant in the Nike Junior Tour in the Bahamas in 2010.

Personal: Daughter of Sanaa Zellou and Abde Pghani Qostal ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

  • 2015-16Sophomore

  • 2016-17Junior

  • 2017-18Senior