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2018-19 Women's Tennis

Don Felice
Don Felice
Hunter Martin

Marta Kowalska

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Stanislawa Wyspianskiego
  • Hometown Krakow, Poland

Biography

2018-19: First-team All-Ivy doubles player … Second-team All-Ivy in singles … Finished the year 23-9 in doubles, including 13-4 in dual matches at No. 1 and 4-1 in Ivy play … ITA Northeast Regional finalist in doubles … ITA Fall Nationals doubles at-large qualifier … Ranked inside the top 70 in the nation as a doubles pair for the majority of the season, finishing at No. 64 … Defeated two top-25 pairs in a span of one week on Spring Break trip to Florida … Playing at No. 2 singles, finished 17-10, 9-6 in dual matches and 1-3 in Ivy play.

2017-18: Match Results ... Led the team in both singles and doubles, with an 18-9 mark individually and a 19-9 mark in doubles ... Posted a team-high 12 wins during the spring season in singles, including a 4-3 mark in Ivy League play, playing primarily at the No. 2 and 3 spots ... Defeated Princeton, Columbia, Brown and Yale in Ivy League action, in addition to wins over Columbia and Harvard at the ECAC Championship (Feb. 9-11) ... Notched one win in singles at the 2017 ITA Northeast Regional (Oct. 20) ... Won two matches at the Cissie Leary Invitational (Sept. 22-23) ... Partnered primarily with Marija Curnic in doubles during the spring, going 11-2 on the season with a 5-1 mark in Ivy League play ... Tallied wins over Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Yale and Harvard in doubles ... Won two matches in doubles with OJ Singh at the ITA Northeast Regional ... Won the consolation doubles bracket with Singh at the Cissie Leary Invitational.

2016-17: Match Results ... Went 19-9 overall and 5-2 in the Ivy League in singles ... Went 14-15 overall and 3-3 in the Ivy League in doubles ... Competed during the spring season at the No. 5 and 6 positions in singles and the No. 2 and 3 positions in doubles ... Tallied singles wins in Ivy play against Cornell, Brown, Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard, winning her last five matches of the season ... Went 1-1 in singles at the ITA Regionals and 2-1 at the Cissie Leary Invitational ... Won Ivy matches in doubles against Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth with Luba Vazhenina ... Won 17 of her 19 singles matches in straight sets.

2015-16: Match Results ... Went 22-9 overall and 5-2 in the Ivy League in singles ... Went 11-14 overall and 1-3 in the Ivy League in doubles ... Went 11-3 in singles and 5-5 in doubles in the fall ... Went 2-1 at the Tribe Invitational in singles ... Went 2-1 at the Princeton Invitational in singles ... Went a perfect 4-0 at the Cissie Leary Invitational, winning the 'Flight B' singles title ... Went 1-1 at ITA Regionals ... Went 11-6 and 6-9 in doubles during the spring ... Went 7-1 at home ... Ivy singles wins came over Yale, Brown, Harvard, Dartmouth and Columbia. 

High School: Two-time national championship of Poland in singles (2012, 2014) ... Two-time national championship of Poland in doubles and mixed doubles (2012, 2014) ... First place at the ITF Junior G4 Gdynia Cup in 2014 ... Ranked No. 1 under-18 player in Poland ... Finalist and semifinalist at a number of Tennis Junior and ITF Junior tournaments ... Polish Minister of Education Award for special educational achievement ... Laureate of Sapere Audee Medal for excellent performance ... Double laureate of Sapere Ausoe Reward for athletic achievement. 

Personal: Daughter of Iwona and Zygmunt Kowalska ... Older brother, Jakub, played tennis at Fordham from 2011-2014 ... Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.
 

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Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Freshman

  • 2016-17Sophomore

  • 2017-18Junior

  • 2018-19Senior