Women's Tennis Adds Di Palma to the Roster

Andrea Di Palma of Buenos Aires, Argentina has signed a national letter-of-intent to continue her tennis career at the University of Louisville, according to Mark Beckham, UofL head coach.

"I would like to welcome Andrea Di Palma to the University of Louisville Athletics family," said Beckham. "She already had a good feeling on how we treat our players and how we train. Andrea has a lot of International experience and has played at a very high, level which is really important if you are going to make an immediate impact to our team and I think she definitely will. If we were going to bring someone in for the spring, they had to have a high level of play and Andrea fits what we were looking for. She is definitely going to impact our team. We couldn't be happier about her addition for this spring season."

Di Palma comes to Louisville with a wealth of international experience and is ranked No. 1070 in the world by the WTA. This year, she made the semi-finals in ITF tournaments in singles in Tabarka, Tunisia and in doubles in Buenos Aires. She made the quarterfinals twice in ITF Buenos Aires and spent five months training in Verona, Italy.

In 2018, in the ITF Women's Tournament Circuit, she made the semi-finals in doubles in Paraguay and trained four months in Verona. In 2017, on the ITF Junior Circuit, she was the champion in the Paschal Bowl in Paraguay, and in G2Vina del Mar, Chile. She made the semi-finals in Mburucya Bowl and in the Copa FTCH in Chile. Her final junior ITF ranking was No. 135.

In 2016, she was the South American Champion, winning gold in both singles and doubles. At the Junior Federation Cup in Budapest, Hungary, she achieved an No. 8 ranking. At the National Master Junior Tournament, she was the champion in the U16 singles and doubles. She won the Cantegrill Country Club Bowl Championship in Uruguay and held a national ranking of No. 1 in U16. In her first year competiting on the ITF women's circuit, she made the semi-finals in doubles in Argentina.

"Coach Fulton did a really good job of recruiting Andrea. We both felt she would be a great addition to our program. She had an existing relationship with one of our players so that helped out a lot in helping her feel comfortable with committing to us," said Beckham.

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Andrea DiPalma

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