Valencia Xu Season 2021-22

Career Accolades

• Pac-12 champion (2023)
• Two-time Pac-12 Tournament champion (2022-23)
• All-Pac-12 Second Team (2023)
• College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Second Team (2023)
• Two-time ITA Scholar-Athlete (2022-23)
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2023)

As a Sophomore (2022-23) • Pac-12 Champions • Pac-12 Tournament Champions

• All-Pac-12 Second Team
• College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Second Team
• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Finished 26-8 overall in singles, going 15-6 in dual matches, primarly on court five
  • Started and finished hot, winning first eight and last six matches of the season
• Went 9-3 against Pac-12 opponents and 3-1 against ranked foes
  • Highest ranked win was over No. 41 Ava Catanzarite of UCLA
• Won all three completed matches in the NCAA Tournament
• Tied for the team lead with six clinched matches: Kansas State (Jan. 27), San Francisco (March 8), Washington State (April 15), USC (April 29), Ohio State (May 12) and Texas A&M (May 17)
• Partnered primarily with Connie Ma on court three in doubles, going 17-3

As a Freshman (2021-22) • Pac-12 Tournament Champions

• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Finished 26-3 overall in singles, going 16-2 in dual matches, primarily at the No. 5 spot
  • Won 20 of 21 first matches
• Final national ranking of No. 111
• Totaled an 8-1 record against Pac-12 opponents and went 3-0 against ranked opponents
  • Was 3-1 in three-set matches
  • Highest ranked win came over No. 42 Maria Titova of Kansas at the Torero Tennis Classic
• Clinched four matches, wins over Arkansas (Jan. 28), USC (March 25) Washington (April 8) and UCLA (April 22)
• Was 19-13 overall in doubles play, playing in 22 dual matches
  • Went 7-4 against Pac-12 opponents
• Went 9-2 at the No. 2 spot with Alexandra Yepifanova, 2-1 at No. 3 with Michaela Gordon, 1-1 at No. 3 with India Houghton and 1-1 at No. 3 with Niluka Madurawe
  • Helped win the doubles point in the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament with Gordon

Prior to Stanford

• Reached a ranking of No. 3 nationally by Tennis Recruiting
• Won the doubles championship at the 2021 Easter Bowl
• Competed at the Junior US Open, Wimbledon and French Open
• Won three doubles and two singles titles on the junior ITF circuit
• Only played high school tennis as a junior, earning first-team All-State honors

Personal

• Daughter of Carol Chen and David Xu
• Born in Englewood, N.J.

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DOUBLES