| Sahaja Yamalapalli | |
| Fullname: | Sahaja Yamalapalli |
| Birth Date: | 2000 10, df=yes[1] |
| Birth Place: | Hyderabad, India |
| Turnedpro: | 2021 |
| Plays: | Right (two-handed backhand) |
| College: | Sam Houston State University |
| Careerprizemoney: | $64,404 |
| Singlesrecord: | 97–78 |
| Singlestitles: | 4 ITF |
| Highestsinglesranking: | 284 (October 2024) |
| Currentsinglesranking: | 304 (Nov 2024) |
| Doublesrecord: | 29–62 |
| Highestdoublesranking: | 408 (October 2024) |
| Currentdoublesranking: | 459 (Nov 2024) |
| Medaltemplates-Expand: | yes |
Sahaja Yamalapalli (born 29 October 2000) is an Indian tennis player.[2] She is India's number one in women's tennis.[3]
Yamalapalli was born on 29 October 2000 in Hyderabad, India. Her mother is Supriya while her father Bhavaniprasad Yamalapalli works at an engineering college.[4]
She started playing tennis at the age of ten. Yamalapalli graduated from Sam Houston State University in 2017 where she majored in Food Science and Nutrition. She has won the Player of the Year Award for collegiate tennis.[5] She was the second tennis player in the university's history to be honored with the award, the first being Irina Sotnikova.
She was also the first women's tennis player who earned ITA national ranking 110 in the university's history while also becoming the first player to ever crack the ITA NCAA national ranking. Yamalapalli was Southland Conference women's tennis student-athlete of the year 2018, 2019 and 2021 for being top in studies and sports. [6]
Yamalapalli made her debut on the ITF tour in 2021. She won the WTA Mumbai Open.[7] She won the SoCal Pro Series and became the third Indian women's tennis player to win an ITF pro title.[8] She also won the ECT ITF women’s singles title.[9] She mainly plays tournaments on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, where she has already won three titles in the singles.
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| W25 tournaments | |
| W15 tournaments |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Mar 2022 | ITF Nagpur, India | W15 | Clay |  Emily Seibold | 6–5 ret. | |
| Win | 2–0 | Jul 2022 | ITF Gurugram, India | W25 | Hard |  Viktória Morvayová | 6–3, 7–6(5) | |
| Loss | 2–1 | Jul 2023 | ITF Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand | W25 | Hard |  Mananchaya Sawangkaew | 4–6, 0–6 | |
| Win | 3–1 | Dec 2023 | ITF Solapur, India | W25 | Hard |  Ekaterina Makarova | 6–4, 6–3 | |
| Win | 4–1 | Jun 2024 | ITF Los Angeles, USA | W15 | Hard |  Amy Zhu | 6–4, 7–6(4) |