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2022-23 Women's Tennis Roster

Kit Mohr/Atlantic 10
Kit Mohr/Atlantic 10
Kit Mohr/Atlantic 10

Valeriya Deminova

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Moscow, Russia
  • Highschool High School No. 2123

Biography

2022-23
• 2023 Atlantic 10 Co-Performer of the Year.
• 2023 First Team All-Atlantic 10.
• Went 13-8 in singles play, 9-5 at first singles.
• Spring singles record of 9-3, all at #1, including wins over nationally ranked Brown and Yale.
• Spring doubles record of 13-3.
• Was 2-0 in singles play and 3-0 in doubles action at the Atlantic 10 Championship.
• Defeated opponents from Army, Columbia and Princeton to qualify for the ITA Division I Women's Northeast Super Regional Championship.
• Two-time First Team All-Atlantic 10 and Fordham Women's Tennis MVP.

2021-22
• Earned All-Atlantic 10 honors.
• Named Team MVP.
• Went 9-5 in singles play, 2-0 at first singles and 5-2 at second.
• Was also 2-0 at the third position.
• Compiled an 11-6 doubles mark, 8-3 at first doubles.
• Was 4-1 at second doubles.
• Named to the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll.

2020-21
• Compiled a 3-0 singles record, 2-0 at the first position.
• Was 2-1 in doubles play.
• Named to the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll.

2019-20
• Was 12-13 in singles play.
• Appeared at second and third singles in dual matches.
• Advanced to the round of 32 at the ITA Northeast Regionals.
• Went 14-10 in double action.
• Recorded second most doubles wins on team.
• Teamed with Avery Aude to win A Flight doubles at the Army Invitational.
• Also joined with Aude to advance to the finals of the A Flight doubles bracket at the Cissie Leary Invitational.
• Was 10-6 in doubles play at tournaments.
• Named to the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll.

As a Freshman (2018-2019 at Georgia Tech)
• Tabbed ACC Co-Player of the Week on Feb. 19.
• Posted an 8-13 dual singles mark in the spring and went 12-22 overall between fall and spring in singles.
• Recorded a 16-15 doubles record overall, including a 10-12 dual record.
• Capture.d five ACC singles wins and five doubles victories.
• Posted a 4-9 singles record and 6-3 doubles record in tournament play in the fall.
• Won first collegiate singles match at the Furman Fall Classic over Clemson’s Alex Angyalosy in straight-sets, 6-2, 6-2.
• Picked up a pair of consolation bracket victories in the ITA Southeast Regionals hosted at Georgia Tech.
• Partnered with Victoria Flores primarily to collect six doubles victories.

Before Fordham
• Part of Tech’s No. 6-ranked recruiting class.
• A top prospect out of Moscow.
• Ranked as high as No. 71 in the world in Juniors.
• Won multiple ITF singles and doubles titles including a Grade 2 in Ukraine and Grade 3 event in Russia.
• Competed in both Junior Wimbledon and Junior French Open.
• Grew up training at Spartak Tennis Club, the former training ground to professional tennis players Anna Kournikova, Dinara and Marat Safin, and Elena Dementieva.

Personal
• Started playing tennis at the age of four when her father brought her to the best tennis school in Moscow because he always wanted her to be an athlete.
• Lists her most memorable non-athletic accomplishment as finishing music school and drawing school when she was little.
• Lists her most memorable athletic accomplishment as winning Grade 2 ITF and playing Wimbledon and Roland Garros.

Major: Visual Arts.

CAREER
SINGLES     Total    1     2     3     4     5     6   Dual  Tour  Conf
2018-19*    12-22   ---   ---   5-10  3-2   ---   0-1   8-13  4-9   5-8
2019-20     12-13   ---   3-5   1-0   ---   ---   ---   4-5   8-8   0-0
2020-21       3-0   ---   2-0   1-0   ---   ---   ---   3-0   0-0   0-0
2021-22       9-5   2-0   5-2   2-0   ---   ---   ---   9-2   0-3   2-0
2022-23      13-8   9-5   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   9-5   4-3   3-1
Totals      49-48  11-5  10-7  8-10   3-2   0-0   0-1 30-25 16-23  10-9

CAREER
DOUBLES     Total    1     2     3   Dual  Tour  Conf
2018-19*    16-15   3-7   6-5   1-0  10-12  6-3   5-7
2019-20     14-10   2-1   1-2   1-1   4-4  10-6   0-0
2020-21      2-1    1-0   ---   1-1   2-1   0-0   0-0
2021-22     11-6    8-3   1-0   ---   9-3   2-3   1-0
2022-23     16-4   13-3   ---   ---  13-3   3-1   5-0
Totals     57-35  26-14   8-7   2-0 36-22 21-13  11-7

* - at Georgia Tech

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Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Sophomore

  • 2020-21Junior

  • 2021-22Senior

    5'7"
  • 2022-23Graduate Student

    5'7"