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= Sahaja Yamalapalli =

Sahaja Yamalapalli (born 29 October 2000) is an Indian professional tennis player. Current world No.456 and India number 4, she has won two professional singles titles in 2022. And also the member of Indian women tennis team for Billie Jean King Cup (Fed Cup) 2023.

She is considered an aggressive player with powerful ground strokes. She turned pro in September 2021 and finished the year with the year-end ranking of WTA-1414 and has been consistently climbing up the rankings since then. As her current ranking is 456 in the world, she has a goal set to reach top 300 before the end of the year 2023.

Before turning pro, she was playing college tennis at Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA and graduated in May 2021 with a food science & Nutrition degree and finished her college tennis career with an extraordinary performance 18-0 (win-loss) at top 1 line up of the team in the final season.

She played very few tournaments in her junior category and straight away started playing women category at the age of 14 and won 3 AITA women singles titles out of 5 and remaining semis and quarters.

In her college tennis she excelled her game level under the coaching of Robert Hubbard with the overall statistics in dual matches 52-11 (win-loss) and Southland Conference matches 34-3 (win-loss).

ITF Singles Titles
1. ITF $25K at Solapur, Maharashtra in December 2023

2. ITF $25K at Gururgram, Haryana in July 2022

3. ITF $15K at Nagpur, Maharashtra in March 2022

Early Life
Sahaja Yamalapalli was born on 29 October, 2000 in Khammam and brought up in Hyderabad. Her father Bhavani kumar Yamalapalli is a private teacher and mother Supriya is a house wife. She was joined by her parents in tennis mainly for keeping her body healthy but gradually she used to play with good focus and determination. Till her 10th standard she had continued her practice at Saroor nagar stadium, Hyderabad and few months at L.B.stadium. After 10th standard she was joined in Sinnet Tennis Academy and took the training under coaches Ravi Chandra Rao and Prahlad Kumar Jain and currently training at PBI (Peter Burwash International) tennis academy, Bangalore under the coach Mr. Cesar Morales.

She attended Geetanjali Vidyalaya school from 5th class to 7th and Vignan Global Gen School from 8th to 10th. And Siddhartha Junior women’s college for Intermediate and graduated from Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA.